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
I couldn’t careless about the skin color of any new residents of PLG. I just don’t want to deal with anyone that wishes they lived somewhere else coming in and not wanting to appreciate PLG for what great neighborhood it is. Great, not perfect.
as far as PLG’s future –
honestly i don’t give a damn if another white person ever moves into PLG. and yes, i’m white myself. i represent white flight from white people! i rented in PS for a few years starting in 1999 and watched the place become an unbearably homogenized twilight zone of excruciatingly over the hill hipsters and 17.99 eggs benedict brunch enthusiasts. i mean seriously, the hi-tech strollers, the kids being named silly names like Cooper and Jackson, the pampered wives chatting on their cellphones while the west indian domestic spoons out the frozen yogurt to the snot-nosed kid – the place just became revolting – PLG? just people living without the self-styled irony – i hope it lasts –
Bob Marvin consistently, relentlessly, tirelessly reps my beloved PLG – i’ve got your back big man – it’s appreciated out here –
From the pictures it looks like a lovely house. But it’s more expensive than comparable ones in Ditmas Park, which doesn’t make sense.
All of the Maple Street houses have buyers? Including 160 that was discussed so recently?
From the pictures it looks tastefully decorated. We will have to wait and see what it goes for. All of the Maple Street houses have buyers (in this supposedly sluggish market), so I’m sure this one will find a buyer too.
Interesting comment Anon. 6:07. PLG has actually had a substantial middle-class population forever. Historically, because of the restrictive covenants in Lefferts Manor (at the center of PLG) the area did not become a neighborhood of SROs during the 1930’s (like many other Brooklyn brownstone neighborhoods). The middle class never really left. There was a substantialn amount of “white flight” in the early ’60s, but the neighborhood remained integrated (despite the conventional wisdom that cynically labels integration as a brief period between a neighborhood being “all white” and “all black”). I’ve lived in PLG for over 30 years, but I’m far from being a “pioneer.”
It is a really nice block, but this place is definitely way, way overpriced. I saw it on the tour last year too. Even though it is a nice house with lots of potential — if you are paying that price in Lefferts, it ought to be in near-perfect move-in condition and in my judgement this place isn’t.
Well–I couldn’t possibly comment on THAT 🙂