Buyer's Market? Not In Boerum Hill
In further confirmation that Boerum Hill is THE high-momentum nabe at the moment, we just received word that 152 Dean Street, featured a month ago as an Open House Pick and mobbed with house-hunters (not that there’s necessarily any connection between the two), has gone into contract at $2.45 million, $150,000 over asking price. We’d…
In further confirmation that Boerum Hill is THE high-momentum nabe at the moment, we just received word that 152 Dean Street, featured a month ago as an Open House Pick and mobbed with house-hunters (not that there’s necessarily any connection between the two), has gone into contract at $2.45 million, $150,000 over asking price. We’d love to hear some color on the bidding dynamics if anyone’s privy to them. Frankly, we’re not surprised the house sold itself–from the photos on the Elliman site, it looked perfectly designed to sell. Plus, it’s hard to put a price on the Heath factor!
152 Dean Street [Prudential Douglas Elliman] GMAP P*Shark
Mob Scene at 152 Dean [Brownstoner]
As someone who has lived on both Dean and Pacific and whose child attended school on Bergen in Boerum Hill, the only thing I can say is that I pity the new owners the bumper-to-bumper traffic that they will endure from 3:00 to 6:00 everyday. The neighborhood has major limitations, including the projects, mediocre housing stock, the seedienss of Fulton St, etc. But from a qualiy-of-life point of view, those three streets in particular are the pits. Thought this open secret was keeping prices in the neighborhood down.
If someone is so preoccupied with Public school stats, SAT scores, % on subsidized, etc…where looking to buy or live….I don’t think is going to be happy in many places in Brooklyn or rest of NYC.
Try LI North Shore or the like where they are all hyped up on that… and you’ll have your premium public school district.
How did you check the schools? Statistics? You’ll never learn anything about schools or neighborhoods if that is your idea of checking. Go meet the students, teachers and administrator of PS 261 or PS 38. Engaged, energetic, inclusive tolerant and successful…exactly what NYC is all about.
4:25, it tells me you need to thank God (the Universe, Whomever) for your own situation, and then tells me we all need to get off of our collective butts, and I certainly include myself in this, and make improved public education a priority in this city.
Anon 2:03 posted an inspiring post. Perhaps we should care less about Viking and more about reading and writing. The uneducated and hopeless of today are the social problems of tomorrow, and help to create the people we are afraid of.
last I checked, the public schools in BH sucked big time. SAT scores were terrible. what does it tell you when 95% of the kids in the BH school district are on subsidized breakfast and lunch?
I’ve lived for 20 years between Smith St and Gowanus Houses. Even during the worst years of crime/violence in NYC –
disturbance of my ‘quality of life’ has been more negatively affected by the new nightlife of Smith Street than by any problems with Gowanus Houses.
geez – “piggybacking on the cache and aesthetic insurance of the landmark district.” –
I don’t want to be guilty of that…
how shall I refer to my neighborhood from now on? can I just add ‘vicinity’ to one of the Historic Nabes or is that the same thing?
the house is not two blocks from the projects. outside of living on pacific st., the earlier poster is correct: you’re about as far from the pjs as you can get and still live in BH. in fact, if you’re commuting from either the F at bergen or the atlantic avenue trains, you’re never even straying from a brownstone-lined street. and you know what? the pjs are part of the neighborhood. they’re part of why i like living in BH: it will never be completely gentrified with annoying people who will be deterred at living near someone who can’t afford to live in a brownstone.
Neighborhood boundaries are not based on historic districts. That’s crazy talk. That said, this is the best block in Boerum Hill and the house is nice and wide. In my opinion, Boerum Hill is very much a downtown neighborhood and has more foot traffic, car traffic and other traffic than more outlying neighborhoods or even Cobble Hill. Dean Street traffic can be awful. I’ve lived in the neighborhood for 10 years and I love it, but I am finding these prices hard to fathom given the quality of life. There are good public schools, great transportation, good eating and improving shopping, but it is still loud and dirty.
I’m OK with the projects. A lot of their kids go to school with my kids so I know there are a lot of very nice hardworking families there. I can’t say the projects enhance the neighborhood but they don’t help either. Coming home from the Hoyt Schermerhorm stop at night down Hoyt Street is fine but I wouldn’t go down Bond. One block makes a big difference.