What do you think
My friend is looking at a property on Winthrop between Bedford and Flatbush. The house is beautiful but it is sandwiched between some huge apratment buildings. How is this area; are the buildings rentals or co-ops/ condo? They are relatively new to brooklyn and right now they live in Prospect Heights. My friend is a…
My friend is looking at a property on Winthrop between Bedford and Flatbush. The house is beautiful but it is sandwiched between some huge apratment buildings. How is this area; are the buildings rentals or co-ops/ condo?
They are relatively new to brooklyn and right now they live in Prospect Heights. My friend is a long time NY (lived in East village for 15 years), but now he is building his family and looking for something permenant.
Thanks
The only negatives I’ve heard from friends living in the area is that once you get out of the single-family PLG area, some of the more heavily-populated blocks can be really noisy late at night — especially on weekends and in the summer.
I’ve lived in PLG for 34 years and love the neighborhood. There are lots of posts, pro & con, but mainly pro, in the Brownstoner archives:
http://tinyurl.com/dbkn77
80 Winthrop on this block is co-op, but also still has renters. Most of the buildings in the neighborhood are rent stabilized rentals.
I’ve lived a couple of blocks away for a couple of years and like the area so I’m buying into a co-op a couple of blocks from where you are talking about. I’ve never not felt safe, even walking home from the train in the early morning hours after being out on the town.
There is some great grocery stores as well as produce, fish, butchers etc in the area.