371 Clinton Street Sells For Ask
This’ll probably show up on next week’s Biggest Sales list but seemed to merit an immediate post: 371 Clinton Street, the four-story, 15-foot wide Cobble Hill house that hit the market on March 2 and was featured as a House of the Day shortly thereafter, went into contract within three weeks and closed last week…
This’ll probably show up on next week’s Biggest Sales list but seemed to merit an immediate post: 371 Clinton Street, the four-story, 15-foot wide Cobble Hill house that hit the market on March 2 and was featured as a House of the Day shortly thereafter, went into contract within three weeks and closed last week for its asking price of $2,695,000. Pretty impressive!
371 Clinton Street [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP P*Shark
Considering that Stuy’s Asian population includes kids of Korean, Chinese, Indian, Pakistani, and several other backgrounds and many of the white kids are first generation immigrants from Russia, Poland, former Yugoslavia, etc., I would say it’s plenty diverse. I have a child there and don’t think it’s a particularly good school, but that’s another matter.
ditto, the old Stuy bldg was small, old, and a little shitty. the current bldg is quantum leap improvement on all aspects (except for that west side hiway crossing)
Interesting thread for sure. I mostly agree with Adam’s formulation and would say that I and most of my friends with kids are examples. Perhaps formerly many of us would have moved to the burbs but now it seems most are staying in Brooklyn, where if you own a home similar to the one I own you can achieve most of the lifestyle considerations people usually move to the burbs to get (yard, barbeque, more space, relative peace and quiet etc). But you still get to be in NYC. I would go insane having to drive everywhere and not being able to walk to the things I wanted to do. School is really the only big hurdle (home prices not withstanding) to the whole thing being ideal. As soon as my children are settled into public schools that I like well enough I will consider myself to have done pretty well at this game of domestic life.
“and also because (gasp!) they want their kids to experience diversity”
70% asian and 27% white diversity you mean? err..
Some people send their kids to top NYC public high schools (assuming they get in) because they think their kids will get a better education there, and also because (gasp!) they want their kids to experience diversity.
“In the recession of the 90s, a huge chunk of St Ann’s and packer went to Stuy”
I thought you had to be clever to get into Stuy.
There’s another reason to have good schools in the neighborhood even if you go for private schools:
When you lose your $$$$ job and/or get divorced, you may not have money left for the ritzy private school. In the recession of the 90s, a huge chunk of St Ann’s and packer went to Stuy — it was close to 30% some years.
So is this it? Is the bubble back on? YIPPPPPPEEEE! Oh, I’m kidding.
Miss Muffet’s last post said they were going to wait for their youngest to get into PS 132 or whatever it’s called and then they were going to explore buying a house in some more affordable neighborhood whose name I can’t remember any more (maybe it was Flatbush)?
I do miss her.
“Also you get old “young” out there”
Totally agree.