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.
I think PLG is cool. I went to the open house at Ocean ave featured last week and it was unbelievable. Did anyone else see that house? If it was on the other side of the park it would be worth 3 million. To still find deals like that, just because they are on the wrong side of the park is cool. That area is definetly on the upswing. I just think all of brooklyn is out of control price wise and PLG is still semiaffordable.
It take 5 min to drive to 7th & Union PSFCoop. 5 min to restaurants on smith st.
Here, I’ll describe the house for you – since I saw it on house tour. Garden floor – kitchen in the back – cherry colored cabs. Parlor floor, double parlor. 2nd floor, master bedroom with bathroom in the corner (not ensuite) and closets in the middle with shaving sinks there as well.
I absolutely don’t feel like they missed out on anything. They went to the Brooklyn New School, which was wonderful. Plenty of their friends went to PS 321, and from what I could tell, it seemed like a good school, but by no means perfect. It always seemed really overhyped to me. Parents would tell me about the problems their kids were having there (mostly complaints about the teachers) and then their eyes would glaze over and they’d chant, “But it’s such a great community.” It seems to inspire a cult-like devotion. But BNS did too, among some parents — people have this need to feel like the parenting choices they make are not just the best choices for them, but that all other options are bad.
Yes, the hipsters have hit Ocean and Lincoln Aves. Yes, a lot of the apartment buildings on Flatbush are poorly managed and in terrible disrepair. But there are also nice rental buildings in PLG on the other side of Flatbush Ave (near Bedford/Rogers Aves). The hipsters could converge.
Then again, how is this stretch of Flatbush Avenue so different from the divisive stretch that runs between Park Slope and Prospect Heights? That part of Flatbush Ave is STILL seedy despite the neighborhoods around it.
I prefer 107 to 321. 321 is great but overcrowded, whereas 107 is great and for now, it is not over crowded
yes, all park slopers…they are all the same.
just like all gays are the same, asians, everyone.
i think you are the one that is only so hip. please don’t speak for the rest of us.
4:33, Good point, but, an area with homes pushing 1 million, as you put it, has increased as well as the average home across the country in the last few years. To “boom”, in this context, is to have at least more than doubled in value, as have many brooklyn areas.
I pass along Flatbush in PLG quite often and I see no signs of change.
No, no, no- very rarely are parents the best option for sculpting their young in to responsible adults. What do you think this is? A place where people take responsibility for themselves and their kids?
Come on now- I’m all for giving a kid a chance but I’m sure as hell not about making excuses for them or their parents. Find them something to do? Uh, how ’bout go to school. Study. Work. Do something to improve your life. Not having a rec center where you can play ping pong doesn’t make being a thug acceptable or even understandable.
Anon 4:34 was me. I switched to Safari because I was having trouble with Firefox, but Safari will not let me log in. Anyway, I DON”T agree with anon. 4:18, despite his/her expectations.