Open House Picks

chs,

If any particular neighborhood ain’t your cup of tea, then why dwell on it?

Things will either sell there or not.

Market’s bigger than any one voice (and even this site, believe it or not…), and so flame-baiting here does little to
accomplish anything or contribute to substantive discussion here.

Heck…where I live in Cobble Hill or nearby in Brooklyn Heights, Carroll Gardens, Boerum Hill or Park Slope, whatever…even the supposedly more prime areas have plenty of crime to go around.

Just a fact of life of living in NYC.

So, um, next topic?

Well, the troll hasn’t (except for one veiled threat) made me his target, but he does have a thing about my neighborhood and (I think) reacts to my postings. AFAIK he made CHP and Bx2Bklyn targets only after they defended PLG (even though they live in CHN). Neither of these people can be said to have behaved badly IMO (although SOMEONE, using their spoofed IDs sure has). I’ve met both of them (at an opening of one of my photography shows last Spring). My impression is that they are thoughtful, intelligent, well spoken people and ,I assume, that their REAL posts reflect this. Ed too has defended PLG, making himself a target, although IMO his comments have (sometimes) been kind of hard to take. Perhaps “fixation” might be a better word than “agenda” to describe out trolls motivation. However, for my part, I’m sick of trying to understand him.

There’s no quick fix IMO. Thwarting malicious posters will require a number of different steps including making it as difficult as possible for them to post (a half measure, at best), making it impossible (or at least VERY difficult) for them to spoof the IDs of regular posters, and (since they’re clever SOBs) the liberal use of the “ultimate” weapon–the delete button at Mr. B’s fingertips.

We went to the 62 Midwood Open House — or the first since it went back on the market — a couple of weeks ago. The floorplan is wrong: the skylight is on the top floor, whether you want to call it the fourth or third floor. The four-story houses on that first block of Midwood vary a lot in terms of the condition they’re in. This one seems not to have ever had as much original detail as houses like 68, but the detail it does have is in pretty good shape (although unfortunately some of it, like the mirror in the foyer, has been painted white). It needs some updating, to be sure — kitchen, bathroom, etc — and it has forced air heating, but there’s not much you’d need to do right away, and has other nice touches that aren’t shown like a skylight in the top floor bathroom and in the stairwell. The layout as is is a little weird, too, which some people will like b/c it offers flexibility.
As far as pricing, I can’t tell what would make sense here. You could probably get this up to 62’s shape pretty easily with $100,000(ish). It’s just a question as to whether they’ll go $50,000 below asking.
(Also, what’s the deal with the A&H Lefferts listings? They seem to have had a bunch of these, lowered the prices, and now BHS has picked up a bunch of them. As recently as three weeks ago, A&H still had this on their site and said it was going back on the market in January; now it’s been taken off and is just on BHS.)

What do you mean Brownstoner Dreamin? The problem we’re having right now is trolling. How is typekey going to stop that? Anyone can get a typekey identity, even trolls, and it can be anything you want it to be. That said, typekey does have some real logistical benefits for many websites. But if you rely on typekey to ward off trolls you’re going to be disappointed. In fact, because typekey allows you to choose whatever display name you want, it could work to the advantage of a troll who is out to impersonate other posters.