397 Jefferson Goes Into Contract...Finally
We received word this week that 397 Jefferson Avenue, which was listed as an Open House Pick back in December at $699,000, has gone into contract. The price? $650,000. At the time, one reader had this to say about the house: “Needs major work. I viewed it last week. Sagging ceilings etc. Need architect, engineer…
We received word this week that 397 Jefferson Avenue, which was listed as an Open House Pick back in December at $699,000, has gone into contract. The price? $650,000. At the time, one reader had this to say about the house: “Needs major work. I viewed it last week. Sagging ceilings etc. Need architect, engineer and contractor.” Compared to what people are used to, five months to get a get deal is long time. GMAP
Open House Picks [Brownstoner]
Let\’s just not have anymore of this posting under multiple names BS. You\’re ruining this blog and basically forcing Mr. B to resort to registrations and logins. I hope you\’re happy with yourself.
And thank you Bob- it was great fun and your photos are just beautiful. I think you were going to answer my question about when the neighborhood became known as Bed-Stuy?
As you can see,I can post and if you read the OPen House thread you’ll see Mr. B’s comment.
I could be wrong, but I think she was caught posting under multiple names. Someone asked Mr. B to check, and he did. I did not find this surprising. The numbers do not lie I guess.
I recently met the REAL B2B (at the opening of my photography show in PLG) and I’m VERY sure she’s no troll. That being said,it must have been difficult to sort her real posts from the “spoofs” of her posts.
I’m pretty sure she got caught trolling under multiple names. If so, Mr. B would have deleted all of her posts.
Hmmm–the post from B2B I was replying to, in between my two posts above) seems to have been deleted–makes my posts seem redundant–sorry about that.
I have no doubt that the Bedford Stuyvesant name had long been in use during the period I wrote about, but FWIW,
Ruby Ford was a VERY impressive lady and she was very insistant about referring to
Bedford and Stuyvesant Heights as separate adjoining neighborhoods. Unfortunately, I lost touch with her after the Brooklyn Brownstone Conference went out of existance over 20 years ago.
Years ago I used to attend meetings of the old Brooklyn Brownstone Conference for my own neighborhood association. Anyway, there was a lady there named Ruby Ford who represented the group that organized house tours in BS, BUT she adamantly insisted that she represented the neighborhoods (plural) of Bedford and Stuyvesant Heights. Ms. Ford (IIRC) claimed that Bedford Stuyvesant, as a neighborhood name, was a construct of ’50s tabloid newspapers, used, in a racist manor,to describe ANY predominantly black Brooklyn neighborhood(especially when they ran crime stories). Is there anything to this? And, if it WAS true30+ years ago, does it matter any more?