Just Sold in Brooklyn
BEDFORD-STUYVESANT $1,080,000 457 Greene Avenue GMAP Prewar four-family, four-story Neo-Renaissance townhouse, 3,600 square feet, with original mantels, pocket doors, oversized windows and original staircase; home features three-bedroom, two-bath owner’s duplex with office under three two-bedroom, one-bath units. Taxes $1,385. Asking price $1,100,000, on market three months. Broker: Rodolfo Lucchese, The Corcoran Group. Photo by Gregg…
BEDFORD-STUYVESANT $1,080,000
457 Greene Avenue GMAP
Prewar four-family, four-story Neo-Renaissance townhouse, 3,600 square feet, with original mantels, pocket doors, oversized windows and original staircase; home features three-bedroom, two-bath owner’s duplex with office under three two-bedroom, one-bath units. Taxes $1,385. Asking price $1,100,000, on market three months. Broker: Rodolfo Lucchese, The Corcoran Group. Photo by Gregg Snodgrass for Property Shark.
PROSPECT HEIGHTS $491,000
365 St. Johns Place GMAP
Prewar three-bedroom, one-bath co-op, 800 square feet, with original details, modern kitchen with dishwasher, renovated bath, window AC and eastern exposure; building is pet-friendly and features laundry, storage, landscaped garden, bike room and live-in super. Maintenance $535, 48 percent tax-deductible. Asking price $480,000, on market 71/2 months. Broker: Cindy McField, The Corcoran Group.
WILLIAMSBURG $700,000
198 Roebling Street GMAP Archive!
Two-bedroom, 1 1/2-bath condo, 1,122 square feet, with renovated kitchen with stainless-steel Bosch and Jenn-Air appliances, Caesar stone countertops and backsplash, hardwood floors, washer/dryer hookup, 10-foot ceilings, terrace and central AC; building features storage and elevator. Common charges $459, taxes $100 (15-year tax abatement). Asking price $745,000, on market six weeks. Broker: Justin Brunwasser, The Developers Group.
Just Sold! [NY Post]
that the beautiful decatur home sold for less than the greene house speaks volumes. namely, UGLY BEDDY is doing more than fine.
Just saw that 100 Decatur St sold for $980,000.
well said as usual putnam-denizen
well said as usual putnam-denizen
I am not sure if the person questioning the amenities of Clinton Hill is serious or just pulling our chains (I suspect the latter). While Clinton Hill is much more “residential” than commercial, it does have numerous dry cleaners (on Fulton, Myrtle and Grand). The supermarkets on Myrtle and on Fulton seem to have lighting and refrigeration, if not quite so many gourmet products as the supermarket on Fifth Avenue in the Slope (but the Choice expansion on Greene may address some of that). Movie theater? BAM Rose is a fifteen minute walk from my house at Putnam and Classon, altho I must say for me, at 43, a movie theater isn’t quite the necessary ammenity it was ten years ago. Bookstore – no bookstore, alas. Pharmacies on Fulton on Dekalb, and also on Greene (not chains, but I can buy my soda at a supermarket). Organic food – Clinton Hill CSA, Fort Greene Farmer’s Market (hard to really separate the two neighborhoods).
Grand Avenue has distinct parts. The drug activity has been up at Fulton. The happening restaurants/bars down at Lafayette (quite close to the Greene Avenue property). And even up near Fulton seems a lot quieter this summer than last (fingers crossed). The Putnam/Grand/Fulton Triangle may finally be attracting enough commercial establishments (Kush, the muysterious Lox, Brown Betty, Outpost, the rumored barbeque joint) to make it a less welcoming place for drug dealing.
While I would agree that I don’t know how I could buy now at these prices (I bought six years ago for a third the price), I am not sure the advice to rent and wait to buy until neighborhoods improve makes any sense, unless you are talking to people who will be able to afford luxury prices. My, somewhat ignorant, advice would be to forsake Brownstone Brooklyn altogether, and look to the Bronx, or other well-located by heretofore ignored neighborhoods for real deals. But for those of us who can’t abide leaving the BK, it is only pockets like those on the edge of Clinton Hill and Bed-Stuy which offer any opportunities.
i agree aureliano,
this area of bed-stuy will be interesting to watch. it’s close to many cool(er) areas, still has tons of parking, and solid old brownstones–many of them w/ thoroughly untouched interiors. it’s also 12 minutes from LIC. it still needs a lot of development but it is changing. the area has many pratt students who have been priced out of CH. right now the neighborhood has an interesting mix of very poor, middle & upper middle. the nyt aticle about the renovation on lexington is about two blocks from here.
Slight topographical correction; Bushwick is to the East of Bed-Stuy while Downtown Brooklyn is to the West. sorry for the confusion.
Let’s face it, Bedford Stuyvesant is undergoing alot of changes like it or not. How long did this community expect to be spared the development/gentrification/turnover that has been rolling over the rest of brownstone brooklyn and new york city in general? I was surprised to read somewhere that bed stuy has one of the lowest population densities in the city. think of it as another example of natural forces at work: you have dense populations to the north in williamsburg, to the east in downtown brooklyn, to the south in crown heights and flatbush while to the west is rapidly developing Bushwick; the new “hipster” haven. All these pressures slowly compressing and molding Bed-Stuy. It will be interesting to watch.
1:44, you are right on the money. we own a house on greene ave and walk over to fg/ch multiple times daily (we have a child). it takes exactly 10 minutes with stroller to get to “prime” fg and half that to choice/grand/pratt, underwood playground. i drove to williamsburg today and it took me all of 7 minutes door to door down bedford to “prime” williamsburg. works for me, and seemingly, too, the many other people that are moving here in droves.