PLG: Pump Up The Volume, Dance, Dance
Despite the best efforts of our resident troll (who gets more insane every day), all signs point to boom times in Prospect Lefferts Gardens. Of the five houses listed currently on Brown Harris Stevens, for example, three are in contract (including this place that has been on the market forever) and another (the Ocean Avenue…
Despite the best efforts of our resident troll (who gets more insane every day), all signs point to boom times in Prospect Lefferts Gardens. Of the five houses listed currently on Brown Harris Stevens, for example, three are in contract (including this place that has been on the market forever) and another (the Ocean Avenue house featured in OHP two weeks ago) is tied up in a bidding war somewhere between 5 and 10 percent over ask. One reader who hit a bunch of the open houses this weekend said they were crawling with young couples priced out of Clinton Hill and Fort Greene and drooling at the comparatively low prices and proximity to the park. (New York Magazine was way out in front of this one back in ’05.) If you’re a long-term believer in Brooklyn, it’s hard to see how you can go wrong with PLG. But…are prices outpacing the reality of infrastructure, amenities, etc. or is the rest of the world just waking up and coming to its senses? (We would encourage people to sign in for discussions on this one as our little PLG toad will most likely be firing away full throttle in his best efforts to disrupt civil discourse.)
Photo from Planet PLG 2006 house tour slide show.
the mexican restaurant(lincoln road) opened by the patois enterprise from smith st is amazing!!!!!!!!
if you doubt the future of PLG, have an excellent dinner there, it is like smith st 8 years ago!
THE FUTURE CHIC!!!!!!!!!
The troll is actually a PLG renter who is quite in love with the nabe and desperately wants to own a townhouse in this beautiful section of brownstone Brooklyn. However, he can’t afford to own so he makes disparaging remarks about the nabe with the hope that this will drive people away and prices will eventually return to 1960s levels.
Troll, I seriously doubt that prices will ever return to $50,000 per house that you so desperately crave for and I further don’t believe that you could even afford the 5% down payment if it did. I’m truly shocked that you can even afford a computer with broadband connection or is it in your momma’s name?
To get back on topic, that (Prospect Park) is another advantage PLG shares with PS and WT 🙂
to answer you 10:23. what park slope has that ft. greene does not (and i LOVE ft. greene) is well…the park.
it’s a huge asset and doesn’t compare to ft. greene park…obviously. having prospect park on our doorstep counts for a lot, in my opinion. i know it’s one of my favorite things about the neighborhood. being able to walk a couple blocks on a nice day and be inside the park is quite a luxury and people will pay a premium for it.
10:23pm: Come on, we know what the “real” difference between PS and FG is…
7:09am: There are plenty of dry cleaners in FG; I used to go to one on Fulton before I discovered one closer to where I live in CH. As for food…uh what is that big grocery store at on Atlantic Ave called???
It’s funny…I grew up in Brooklyn, & our neighborhood didn’t have a rec center, a pool, or anything else. I remember thinking “well, if it was a poorer area, we’d have those things”. Yet, I grew up, went to school, got a job, bought a house, etc…Why? Because my parents raised me right: to respect myself & respect others, to know how to behave in public. My brother, sister, & I all graduated college while being raised in a one-income, blue-collar household. No one ever gave us a hand-out or made excuses for us. Excuse me, I have to call Mom & Dad now, and take care of MY kids.
I totally disagree with tacking on another .5 mil for on the park location. Park is nice, yes, but also comes with litter, noise, farmer’s market (I’d rather be near the market than have it in my front yard). That said, I’m clearly not in the running for said house, but lucky for me it’s also not really my style. Obviously others feel differently.
I went to the Ocean Ave open house too, and I had much the same reaction as 8:37–what a deal! Then I walked around the area, up Flatbush, over to Nostrand, south to Parkside , and then north a bit. And I thought, Oh! That’s why this house is so cheap! Parts of PLG are “cool” and parts are totaly not, and the areas on all 3 sides are downright horrifying. I won’t say it will never change, because who knows, but I’m not going to live there until it does.
And 8:37, if I wanted to live somewhere where shopping was a 5 minute drive, I’d move to the burbs. At least there there is parking, so you don’t spend another 10 minutes looking for a spot.
i bought my 800 sq ft. one bedroom coop on hawthorne b/w bedford and rogers last year for 200k. minutes to the park, minutes to four subway lines, quick passage to manhattan. dearth of some types of amenities? clearly. but guess what, i consider a mortgage check that won’t shove me into foreclosure the biggest amenity of them all.