Barbara Goes Long Stuy Heights
And so it ends. 408 Stuyvesant Avenue, a beautiful limestone mansion in Stuyvesant Heights that we’ve covered closely since December 2006, finally has a buyer, and her name’s Barbara Corcoran. According to The Real Deal, Babs shelled out $1,460,000 for the 4,000-square-foot pad, a good deal less than the original asking price of $2,100,000, but…
And so it ends. 408 Stuyvesant Avenue, a beautiful limestone mansion in Stuyvesant Heights that we’ve covered closely since December 2006, finally has a buyer, and her name’s Barbara Corcoran. According to The Real Deal, Babs shelled out $1,460,000 for the 4,000-square-foot pad, a good deal less than the original asking price of $2,100,000, but quite a bit more than the $1,115,000 a couple paid for 404 Stuyvesant Avenue last spring. It’s hard to take this as anything but a vote of confidence for the area and particular and the Brooklyn market in general, no? Then again, her foray in Red Hook real estate took a while to pan out.
Barbara Corcoran buys $1.4M Bed-Stuy townhouse [TRD] GMAP
Babs Buys in Bed-Stuy (After Monster PriceChopping) [Curbed]
Houses of the Day: 404 and 408 Stuyvesant Avenue [Brownstoner]
HOTD: Price Cut at 408 Stuyvesant Avenue (Again) [Brownstoner]
House of the Day: 408 Stuyvesant Avenue Revisited [Brownstoner]
House of the Day: 408 Stuyvesant Avenue [Brownstoner]
I like this house, but I would have made the keystone bigger and the cornice needs an elk.
that’s all
I want to know why they call it the STUYVESANT HEIGHTS MONTESSORI school located near Howard ave @ 644 MacDonough St.
I want to know why they call it the STUYVESANT HEIGHTS MONTESSORI school located near Howard ave @ 644 MacDonough St.
I am always amazed by how many comments a Bed Stuy posting a elicits Any time there is slow traffic on the blog, just add Stuyvesant Heights…umm..i mean “Bed Stuy” and stir.
Stuyvesant Heights is a really neighborhood by the way…
I see no problem with smaller sub-neigborhoods, as part of larger ones. As I mentioned on this topic before, Harlem is made up of smaller neighborhoods: Mt. Morris Park, Sugar Hill, Central Harlem, Hamilton Heights, Striver’s Row. To me, anyway, those names just help me determine where something or someone is, any other value judgements are those of the beholder’s.
Bed Stuy is enormous. Myrtle and Nostrand is different from Jefferson and Bedford, from Stuyvesant and Chauncey, from Fulton and Howard. Calling one area Bedford Corners, another Stuyvesant Heights, and another something else is a natural desire for people to grab something smaller that they can be identified with. That is neither good or bad, it all depends on what is done with that name.
There is a big trend in the city to go back to old names. Clinton use to be Hells Kitchen. Clinton Hill use to be just The Hill 100 years ago and then it became Bed-Stuy and today it is Clinton Hill. It dose seem Bedford Stuyvesant is breaking up which is not a total bad thing. I have heard people going back to names like Bedford Corners, Ocean Hill, and Tompkins Park. This just lets people know where in the area you are… If the old timers like myself 30+ lol who did not live in the area as a child but visited every summer in the 1970s and 1980s and when you said bed-stuy you just though of ghetto slum with beautiful architecture. Today when you say Stuyvesant Heights just beautiful architecture comes to mind.
So the “old timers” weren’t even born when the area became landmarked as Stuyvesant Heights?! 30 somethings are not old timers.
As for changing names, some of the older names – Bedford Corners, Ocean Hill – are coming back.
There will be a street fair next week on Lewis Ave from 10-6. I will send the announcement details to brownstoner next week for him to publish,
30 somethings are now considered old timers? I thought 30 somethings were the new 20 somethings!