St Francis Pl b/w Franklin &St C
Is anyone familiar with St Francis Place? The block between Franklin Ave and St Charles Pl? I wanted to know if any lived or lives in the area, whats it like?
Is anyone familiar with St Francis Place? The block between Franklin Ave and St Charles Pl?
I wanted to know if any lived or lives in the area, whats it like?
It is a great quiet little block with fantastic neighbors. I suppose I am biased as the owner occupier of a house on St francis. My wife and I had stumbled across the block many years ago and found ourselves back looking at a house after the bubble burst. After a year and a half our fondness for the community has only grown.
believe I saw listing (not the house) before. The seller is looking for all-cash offer. not sure if that has to do w/ it being an SRO short sale.
If you zoom in on the map in the listing, you can see how the streets are oriented. St. Francis is a very short one-block street running between St. John’s and Lincoln Place.
I don’t really walk down St. Francis that often, so I won’t offer an opinion on the condition of this particular house. Maybe tomorrow morning I’ll walk by and post again afterward. But the price suggests that much work is needed and/or the seller is really desperate.
I saw this home for sale:
http://www.streeteasy.com/nyc/sale/408626-multi-10-saint-francis-pl-prospect-heights-brooklyn
Are you familiar with the house? What kind of condition is it in (superficially speaking). Nice spot on the block?
Thanks.
I think you are confused. St. Francis runs parallel to St. Charles. You must be thinking of St. John’s Place, which runs perpendicular to both. I live on that block. Great neighbors in general (if I do say so myself), great convenience to express subways, museum, park, and botanical gardens. Street parking is usually not too much of a problem and there is a reasonably priced garage one block over on St. John’s ($10 per hour and I think they recently reduced their monthly to $163).
There is some apparent drug activity on our corner (we are very close to Franklin, not so much of an issue further down the block). This seems to occur mostly during the day when my husband is home, I don’t notice it too much. There are some wanna-be thug types that hang around the corners on Franklin but don’t really seem to cause any trouble, and are not particularly intimidating even to this skinny white girl. Sometimes there is some noise related to a couple of nearby bars on weekend nights (again more of an issue closer to the corner, although it can move down our street when people are going to their cars). One of these bars, Franklin Park on St. John’s west of Franklin, has a nice outdoor sitting area.
I love my neighborhood but it is not Park Slope by any means, if that’s your thing.