House of the Day: Detached on Fenimore
We don’t know the Prospect Lefferts Manor market as well as we should, especially when you move away from talking about brownstones. This free-standing wood frame house on Fenimore between Bedford and Rogers is only a couple of blocks from the park and we’re sure it would make a nice single-family home. Somehow, though, we…
We don’t know the Prospect Lefferts Manor market as well as we should, especially when you move away from talking about brownstones. This free-standing wood frame house on Fenimore between Bedford and Rogers is only a couple of blocks from the park and we’re sure it would make a nice single-family home. Somehow, though, we suspect that the asking price of $1.495 is aggressive for the block. The interior has certainly not been neglected–it looks like a major reno was done at some point recently. Who can clue us in about values on this block?
200 Fenimore Street [Prudential Douglas Elliman] GMAP P*Shark
Anonymous at April 12, 2006 06:07 PM
“the area is still too gritty for a massive white incursion, but the potential is certainly there…”
-Anyone who would write something like that is snobbish, smug, self-centered and ignorant.
Ed, Talk about snobbish attitudes! Nobody, not one person mentioned Park Slope in this thread except PLG defenders who brought up PS to bash it as “unbearably homogenized,” full of “snot-nosed kids,” “arrogant, selfish and self-centered.” At least when people knock PLG here — usually unfairly — they talk about services, shopping and safety, not your decency as people.
If claiming that the residents of your neighborhood are better human beings than those who live elsewhere isn’t smug, I don’t know what is.
Yes – thank you Michael. I am an ex-park sloper who moved to the Ditmas Park/PPS area about a year ago. One day I just looked around park slope and thought “where have all the good people gone – the people I moved here to be around – the diverse, interesting, artistic, open minded, friendly people?” I found myself surrounded by self-important, elitist people with nothing to talk about but the best brand of stroller and which gourmet store has the best selection of cheese. I found another great, mixed, interesting neighborhood and I actually cringe every time someone sings its praises on this site because I truly hope it does NOT change. Some of us do not actually want to live in Stepford…even if the Stepford wives now dress like hipsters, call themselves “edgy” and bring coffee shops and wine bars with them!
Thank you, Michael.
160 Maple was taken off the market. Not sold. I heard that the owner simply refused to accept below the asking of 975K and decided to pull it rather than take less. It will probably pop up with a new realtor in awhile.
Well said Michael. It’s crazy what certain neighborhoods in Brooklyn are becoming. I’m getting really tired of these narrow-minded wannah be hipsters.
PLG is a nice neighborhood full of families and very convenient. I don’t know what makes these newcomers to NYC think that they can come in and force their will on long time residents. Brooklyn is about family and community, not arrogant, selfish, self-centered, snobbish Manhattan/ Park Slope attitudes.
I wannah give a shout-out to Babs.
I think you might see change in PLG, but it won’t seem radically different for another 10-20 years. Park Slope didn’t transform in a night, and PLG seems to me about 30 years behind. Ditmas Park about 10. Don’t know about Clinton Hill, but Brownstoner can weigh in.
Michael, couldn’t have said it better myself. Just…wow.
PLG is lovely, but I don’t think there’s much danger (or promise, take your pick) of it changing commercially. Price increases notwithstanding, Flatbush doesn’t look much different than it did 10 years ago.