Prospect Vs. Crown Heights
“A case in point is Joe Chan, president of the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership, who recently moved to Washington and Sterling streets in Brooklyn. I moved to Prospect Heights or Crown Heights, but I’m not really sure which, says Mr. Chan, who adds that he tells friends he lives in Prospect Heights because they are more…
“A case in point is Joe Chan, president of the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership, who recently moved to Washington and Sterling streets in Brooklyn. I moved to Prospect Heights or Crown Heights, but I’m not really sure which, says Mr. Chan, who adds that he tells friends he lives in Prospect Heights because they are more familiar with it. He also notes that on the popular Brooklyn blog Brownstoner, there are pages of people debating which neighborhood Mr. Chan’s address is located in. “Only when the name makes the transition from real estate hype or marketing label to a commonly used phrase to describe a neighborhood does it hold, says Jonathan Miller, chief executive of appraisal firm Miller Samuel Inc. In the case of Mr. Chan’s area, the jury is clearly still out.” — Crain’s
omigawd Mr. B you are obsessed with declaring Classon as the border between Clinton Hill and Bed Suty. I say Bed Stuy is in between Beford and Stuvesant. It just makes sense. There is nothing that makes you right and me wrong, other than that the borders, arguably, are just popular opinion. Regarldess, your argument that it makes sense for Classon to be be the border between PH and Crown Heights because its arguably the border between the nabes to the north makes no sense
Adjust your property search accordingly.
***Bid half off peak comps***
The Prospect Heights / Crown Heights debate is really funny. All of the rental listings that are actually in Prospect Heights are listed as Park Slope. All the listings that say Prospect Heights are actually in Crown Heights.
MM, well Prospect Heights can have the industrial looking blocks on Dean, bergen,…
Don’t sell CH between Nostrand and Washington short, M4L, there’s a lot of really good architecture in there. St. Mark’s between Nostrand and Franklin, Prospect, Park, Sterling, and the really beautiful short streets of saints, between Sterling and Park, between Franklin and Classon. It’s OURS, not Prospect Heights!
Classon, not Washington, has been what my PH friends have always caled the border.
When we bought our place, the real estate appraiser used Classon as the border in order to pick comps. That’s where the NY Times and and Trulia literally draw the line as well.
It makes some sense, both as a ‘split the difference’ compromise between Washington and Franklin, and also because it provides a cleaner break than does Washington, which runs at a funky diagonal angle to the other streets there.
In reality, that whole area is so block-by-block that the labels don’t mean very much at all.
Washington Street is the eastern border of Prospect Heights, so it really depends on which side of the street he’s on.
It’s real-estate agents who are pushing the boundaries of PH further east.
Crown Heights North eye candy stuff begins at Nostrand Ave so more than welcome Prospect Heights Annexing those blocks from Washington to Nostrand