Fort Greene: City's Best Nabe?
Trying to crown one neighborhood as New York City’s best is kind of a silly exercise, but if you were to concentrate on the criteria of culture, community, diversity and architecture, there certainly is a good case to be made for Fort Greene. “In all my days and nights of walking neighborhoods and asking people…
Trying to crown one neighborhood as New York City’s best is kind of a silly exercise, but if you were to concentrate on the criteria of culture, community, diversity and architecture, there certainly is a good case to be made for Fort Greene. “In all my days and nights of walking neighborhoods and asking people why they live where they live, I have never encountered a place that has this much heart, soul and pride,” write Daily News correspondent Jason Sheftell. “More than ever, I found people who said they could never live anywhere else but right here.” Unfortunately for those just hearing about Fort Greene’s charms, the days of finding a real estate deal are long gone (though they may return soon enough!), but it’s still worth it. (The writer naively claims that the Brooklyn nabe is as expensive as the West Village. Not!) People here do not like any fakeness in their neighborhood and they pay higher rents for that, said Denis DuPreez, co-owner of the Dekalb Avenue restaurant Madiba. We have beauty, and we have the good people. It’s hard to argue with that.
Fort Greene: The best neighborhood in New York? [NYDN]
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No streetlights on Vanderbilt or Clinton… I feel safer on Fulton heading towards Bed Stuy than walking down to Dekalb after dark, honestly.
Solution easy enough though. We need a dog.
Re: real estate. Someone needs to buy that mansion on Clinton at a firesale price. I wish it was to be me.
Well, I live on the south eastern border of Fort Greene and I really like the neighborhood, my block etc. but the retail is awful. Friends and family all like my place and my backyard and my tenants love it, but I have to say that the retail here is a little sad. It is getting a tiny bit better, but on a cold winter day (and we have had a lot of them) it’s a hike to anything and more often than not, I take my car….
What about this place for CWB?? You around…?
http://www.corcoran.com/property/listing.aspx?Region=NYC&ListingID=1499194
Pierre de Taille,
Call Fillmore about 13 South Elliott. I hear the accepted offer for $800K fell through. Needs lots of work but its an incredible bargain at that price.
PDT,
Are you looking for a one- or two-family or something with more income?
Some people want to rent out the garden level and live on the parlor floor(and above) and others have their 4-storey house split into two duplexes so the owner(s) live on the ground and parlor floors with the garden and the tenants have a duplex upstairs which can rent for a tidy sum.
I wonder what prices are right now…if you’re looking you probably know better than I. I don’t have a perfect feal for it a the moment but I do know a double duples went for $1.9 not long ago and a friend of ours got the(ee) top sale price in Fort Greene last year–actually end of 2007…but that, as they say these days, was “last year”.
Although, being an oldishtimer, I do have my ear to the rail when it comes to people thinking of moving on to sunnier climes. Give me more of an idea of what you’re thinking of and the price range and I’ll see who’s what where.
Bklyngreene- I can totally sympathize with the dangers of the Flea having pretty much spent every profit I ever made selling there on stuff. Really important stuff, mind you! But….sigh….still stuff. But when your own cat hacks up a hairball on your precious stuff, its time to stop 🙂
BrooklynGreene we are looking for a house brick or bstone..any tips will be deeplyappreciated.
Also, Ici (on Dekalb) is on my top 5 favorite Brunch spots in Brooklyn. Their french toast is the best ever!
MM – thinking the pj’s are not an asset to a neighborhood is snobbery? wow. clearly holding a bias of your own, so no need to debate it. facts speak for themselves.