Prospect Heights: Coming Into Its Own
On Saturday morning, on our way to do yoga in Prospect Heights, we found ourselves thinking about how much potential the neighborhood has. This occurred to us again when we were in Williamsburg later in the day doing some Christmas shopping. Living in Clinton Hill, despite the unrivaled architecture, we do sometimes miss the mix…
On Saturday morning, on our way to do yoga in Prospect Heights, we found ourselves thinking about how much potential the neighborhood has. This occurred to us again when we were in Williamsburg later in the day doing some Christmas shopping. Living in Clinton Hill, despite the unrivaled architecture, we do sometimes miss the mix of urban gritiness, energy and restaurants that Williamsburg has. Prospect Heights, by comparison, mixes the historic brownstone thing with a more industrial feel and building stock that make it ripe for the expansion of funky, interesting businesses as well as residential developments. And, as yesterday’s NY Times article points out, the proximity to Brooklyn’s foremost cultural institutions doesn’t hurt either. Even if the overall market doesn’t keep rising, we bet the arbitrage between Park Slope and Prospect Heights will continue to boost the area’s prices regardless of how Ratner’s plans for the Atlantic Yards shake out.
A Neighborhood Comes Into Its Own [NY TImes]
Prospect Heights and the adjoining neighborhoods that aren’t already gentrified (which I would argue PH basically is) need all the help they can get in staying the way they are. Please don’t move here, let alone buy. There are low-income people who are getting priced out, and they don’t deserve it.
Move to Manhattan.
having been thru this I can tell you high school is not the problem. you test for the top schools and you can go to any high school you want… at any age. sometimes it does take some legwork, but PS parents are good at that.
what makes high school different is that high school kids can take the subway to school alone so there are lots of choices. also, and I guess this goes without saying, many people go private for high school.
What is the point of pointing out the racial mixture of the areas when discussing schools.
Park Slope does not have a public high school. John Jay was turned into 3 middle schools.
In the year 2000…………
Park Slope = 68% White 8% Black 27% Hispanic
Prospect Heights= 18% White 69% Black 11% Hispanic
Ft. Greene=48% White 32% Black 25% Hispanic
Park Slope has one of the worst public high schools in NYC
Ft. Greene has one of the best public high schools in NYC
Posted by: Anonymous at December 19, 2005 10:59 PM
If you’re talking about Bklyn Tech, it’s not a neighborhood school, it’s one of the 3 specialized math & science high schools. Again let’s compare apples to apples.
Prospect Heights Rocks!! Oh the juicy things that are in store for the nabe. I can’t wait!
In the year 2000…………
Park Slope = 68% White 8% Black 27% Hispanic
Prospect Heights= 18% White 69% Black 11% Hispanic
Ft. Greene=48% White 32% Black 25% Hispanic
Park Slope has one of the worst public high schools in NYC
Ft. Greene has one of the best public high schools in NYC
People like to put down other people neighborhoods because in some childish way it makes them feel better about where they live.
FYI – the $2 million barrier has been reached in Prospect Heights – on Prospect Place between Carlton and Vanderbilt (which is one block from Park Slope and one of the premier blocks in Prospect Heights).
It would be ideal if our public schools were better – but let’s be real here. Anyone buying a brownstone for more than $1.7mm is probably going to be agnostic to the quality of the public schools because in all liklihood they will be sending their kids to private school.
Finally – if folks want to diss PH because of the poor public schools – would they also say the same thing about the North Slope? The nicer parts of PH are right next to the North Slope – and the North Slope doesn’t have good public school options either.