This Olde House Gives Nod to Stuyvesant Heights
In its current issue, This Olde House picks its top 51 neighborhoods for old houses. Among its top six Editors’ Picks is none other than Stuyvesant Heights, which gets the nod for being the “Best Place for Brownstone Buffs.” Here’s what they have to say: This culturally rich nabe is shedding its high-crime rep as…
In its current issue, This Olde House picks its top 51 neighborhoods for old houses. Among its top six Editors’ Picks is none other than Stuyvesant Heights, which gets the nod for being the “Best Place for Brownstone Buffs.” Here’s what they have to say:
This culturally rich nabe is shedding its high-crime rep as restaurants, bakeries, and cafes open their doors to new and longtime residents, all of whom want a distinctly Brooklyn lifestyle for themselves and their families…While prices for townhouses were creeping into the millions a few years ago, they’ve come down of late. Some fixer-uppers are going for as low as $475,000. It won’t stay that way.
Sweet!
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The white brownstone in the photo has been de-stooped.
Ouch!
Glad the area is getting more recognition. It’s lovely and a visual treat. You’re lucky you live in that section, dave. So much great stuff happening and your house is a beauty too.
“Some fixer-uppers are going for as low as $475,000. It won’t stay that way.”
Nope. That’s why you shouldn’t buy now. It’ll fall from there. Those fixer-uppers went for 250k during better economic times before crack-credit. Cheap/EZ FHA loans and other reGOVery stiumulii only bought a little bit of time. This summer will be interesting.
***Bid half off peak comps***
MM…there’s a really cute one around the corner from me on Halsey. it has a front porch but, alas, it’s still got all the high metal gates/fencing up in front of it from the “Do or Die” years.
There are frame houses scattered around Stuy Hts, as well as the rest of Bed Stuy. It’s always great to come up on them unawares, because we are so used to stone and brick. I just saw a really cute 3 story frame grey house with fish scale siding and a wonderful gingerbread porch, on sale a couple of weeks ago. I think it was on Jefferson, out near Stuyvesant. I’ll see if I can find it, and will post the info. There is also a restored kelly green frame on MacDonough near Lewis that is really beautiful.
The problem with Camden is that there is no there there.
Bed Stuy by contrast has one of the largest concentration of late nineteenth century rowhouses in the United States. Now that racial barriers are falling left and right, I suspect huge changes in the area, for better or worse, but I suspect better, in the next ten years.
BR, unfortunately none of them have been restored and most all of them still retain some later-day siding on them. But, two of the largest are on the block of which I speak…MacDonough between Stuyvesant & Lewis. The stand alone greek Revival next door to the DOB problem props is awesome and undergoing restoration. They haven’t gotten to the exterior yet. From my history with asphalt shingled exteriors, I bet the clapboards are in pretty good shape.
Nice parts of camden MM? Do tell. Boise is actually nice. I have been there.
It’s great that This Old House featured Stuy Hts. Long overdue for some love from those outside of the community.
I do believe those are Amzi Hill houses, wasder. You get a gold star for remembering his “look”! You too, Dave. I’m sure his namesake will be around to confirm. And yes, that is paint, rob.
Dave is correct about the early frame houses, some of which could be classified as Greek Revival, and date from the 1840’s-50’s.
Rob, please! Since you’ve never been there, kinda hard to claim to know it’s “mad hood”. For that matter, there are parts of Camden that are quite nice, and Boise is supposed to be a nice city to live in. No place is all of anything, good or bad. Talk about hyperbole.