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.
Thats not the answer either. We as a community need to find something for these kids to do. They damn politians aren’t helping them any. They don’t have centers to go to or a positive place to hang out. We need to help them as much as we can. If the do go to prison like you said and they can’t afford to live in the neighborhood that they grew up in they still come back. Then they become homeless adults and because this place is all they know they end up on the streets of our neighborhood. We have to do better then this people. Like it or not they are our future.
4:28, I love talking architecture. I just think it’s very difficult to get people to invest the great amount of money and time it takes to save an old house, if there isn’t promise of it being a good investment. The increased “heat” over brownstone Brooklyn is very healthy for old houses.
I moved to Park Slope when my daughter was 6 months old because we were living in a very small 1-bedroom apartment in the East Village with the crib in the living room and we couldn’t afford anything bigger in Manhattan. We found a 2 BR apartment in the middle of Park Slope for the same price. (This was in 1993.) My husband lived here before we got married and we both liked the neighborhood though I would have preferred to stay in Manhattan.
I definitely did not move to Park Slope for PS 321, we’re not in the zone for 321 and I never considered trying to lie or wheedle for a variance. I’m not going to say it’s overrated, but it’s really not the only game in town, no matter what the PS 321 parents tell themselves. Rolling Eyes
I’m not aware of a large contingent of hipsters in the Slope and haven’t noticed them discriminating against me.
Anon. 4:18,
Not just Lincoln & Ocean, but lots of other streets–Hawthorne, for example. BTW, I DON’T agree with you about Flatbush. I’ve seen signs of change there too. I certainly don’t expect a wholesale population turnover, but a larger customer base for more upscale businesses is another matter.
i love how new yorks are so dellusional. it’s quite amusing. while plg might have it’s good and bad, to say that an area with homes pushing 1 million dollars has not boomed is a bit idiotic.
please come back to reality…just a little bit!!??
please.
when will it have boomed? in 5 years when the homes are 3 million only???!!!
True that, Bob Marvin. Once some amenties come in (like K-Dog and Enduro on Lincoln in PLG) and the hip renters start trickling in, the change can be dramatic and quick. Especially with the super high commercial rent the Park Slope landlords are now charging, I would think some restranteurs especially newer younger ones, will welcome another area in Brooklyn to be a pioneer in, where they can get a long lease cheap.
Bob, you didn’t agree or disagree that there has been no change to the residents of the Flatbush buildings, which was my point. I agree that the Ocean ave buidlings are changing. But it is Flatbush that is the real issue and the reason that the area has not boomed.
The make-up of renters in the large Patio Gardens apartments on Flatbush is changing – somewhat along the lines of the buildings on Ocean – from what I see.
oh, i’m used to it. and i read the site every day, thank you. and love it. no thanks to comments like yours.
my point is how dare you say that the cornice comment or anything related to the ACTUAL HOME is not relevant.
you are simply wrong about the purpose of this website.
and while YOU may be obsessed with home values, i am not. and yes, i do own.