Co-op of the Day: 2601 Glenwood Road, #6C
This one-bedroom at 2601 Glenwood Road isn’t going to win any sexiness awards, but it is a nice basic one bedroom in a prewar building at what these days passes for a reasonable price: $226,000. At $661, the monthly maintenance is also quite reasonable for a 1,025-square-foot apartment. Is anyone familiar with this building? 2601…
This one-bedroom at 2601 Glenwood Road isn’t going to win any sexiness awards, but it is a nice basic one bedroom in a prewar building at what these days passes for a reasonable price: $226,000. At $661, the monthly maintenance is also quite reasonable for a 1,025-square-foot apartment. Is anyone familiar with this building?
2601 Glenwood Road [Prudential Real Estate] GMAP P*Shark
Yes Bob, and it’s original boundaries were a little broader than today, crossing Flatbush, over towards Newkirk Plaza. If anyone has a handy copy of Merlis and Rosenzweig’s Flatbush book lying around, Henry Bolte’s South Midwood Hotel and Bowling Alleys (s/w corner of old Brighton Line and Newkirk Avenue), c.1906, is pictured on page 64. And I’m not just referring to a caption, AJ – the actual sign on the hotel/bowling alley uses the name South Midwood.
If anything is a contemporary designation it’s Victorian Flatbush. Victorian sprawl spread all over Brooklyn, including Midwood (home to Manhattan Terrace and Midwood Terrace), Kensington, Bay Ridge, Gravesend, the list goes on… Victorian Flatbush just happens to be the only area where this housing stock survives in any great numbers.
South Midwood, Beverly Square, Ditmas Park (proper), Matthews Park, Fiske Terrace, etc… these were the names originally bestowed by turn-of-the-previous-century real estate agents. Convenient and historically accurate, they’re a very useful tool for navigating what is, in fact, a pretty large geographic area.
It’s very confusing that “South Midwood” is north of “Midwood”, but it is a real neighborhood in Flatbush, whose name predates the post war Flatbush/Midwood split.
Yes, there is a South Midwood and they have an active neighborhood association. It’s the area north of Brooklyn College and is part of Victorian Flatbush. The Long Island Railroad cut between Avenues H & I is the accepted boundry between Flatbush and Midwood for at least the last 35 years.
there is no such thing as south midwood! its not actual neighborhood….its midwood and thats it…what are your guys, brokers?
FYI, the apartment is in flatbush. midwood starts south of avenue H.
South Midwood ranges from Campus Road to Foster Avenue and Ocean Avenue to East 26th Street (although some say it is Bedford).
By Bob Marvin on June 10, 2010 4:12 PM
“I’ve been told that the mid 20th Century Flatbush/Midwood split was done by real estate interests to delineate the boundaries of block-busting and white flight in Flatbush.”
I hadn’t heard that, but it’s consistent with what I’ve been told by my neighbors who have been here since way back, that the area north of the LIRR tracks, including all of Victorian Flatbush, was redlined in the belief it would deteriorate into slums.
“Midwout and Vlacke Bos were interchangeable in the 17th century” and Midwood and Flatbush were STILL interchangeable in the early 1890s when the Lefferts farm was subdivided and Midwood street was laid out in northern Flatbush (just a few blocks south of the dividing line between the City of Brooklyn and the Town of Flatbush–Brooklyn didn’t annex Flatbush until 1894). Also, Midwood hospital was on Winthrop Street and the Midwood Club was a leading social club in Flatbush.
I’ve been told that the mid 20th Century Flatbush/Midwood split was done by real estate interests to delineate the boundaries of block-busting and white flight in Flatbush.
Here is a listing or remodeled 1 bedroom around the corner from this one for 149K ask eventhough square footage is a little smaller.
http://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/reb/1783891644.html
That plan isn’t even close to +1000sf.