House of the Day: Clinton Hill Mystery Location
We were debating Mr. Minerva last week about the location of this Fillmore listing. He said Lefferts Place and we said St. James. Regardless, it’s an interesting listing. At $1.5 million, we think they’ve overshot by a little but not a lot. The house has some wood detailing (what do you call that trellis-like stuff?)…
We were debating Mr. Minerva last week about the location of this Fillmore listing. He said Lefferts Place and we said St. James. Regardless, it’s an interesting listing. At $1.5 million, we think they’ve overshot by a little but not a lot. The house has some wood detailing (what do you call that trellis-like stuff?) that we don’t see a lot of in the nabe. We almost wonder whether it was added later on. The interior design, which has grandma written all over it, is a little hard to see through to get a sense of what kind of a tune-up the new owner would really need to give the place.
Clinton Hill Brownstone [Fillmore]
yeah i’m NIMBY too… why don’t we move that meth clinic to Todt Hill? Maybe get invovled.. sign a neighborhood petition or somehing?
I concur. But if you want to speed up the clean up process then bring in the cameras and smack a wrecking ball into about four buildings in the area that basically house all of the area’s degenerates, i.e., those who have no community pride and basically crap where they eat! 😉
On a more serious note, Fulton won’t truly shine until the meth center on Fulton and Waverly is relocated to some “other” place. I know, very NIMBY…. I’m ashamed… 🙁
I agree that Clinton Hill is not going to turn into Park Slope overnight, and hope it never does. But as someone who has lived in CH for almost nine years, I’m pretty flabbergasted by the changes; the crack vials and prostitutes are long gone, the schools are finally getting better, house prices are beyond my wildest imagination (for better or worse), and there are very few derelict buildings/lots left that don’t have some kind of construction happening. And the food choices are way better–not long ago, it was only bad Chinese or West Indian with no sit-down restaurants.
Like all neighborhoods, some sections are better than others. Below Fulton can feel a bit dicey, and Putnam has always been bad (but it’s not as bad as it used to be). But I would argue that many Clinton Hill streets are already pretty prime.
Southeastern Clinton Hill sits directly on the C train line and straddles Fulton Street. Two major pluses as the neighborhood continues to change and make serious improvements. Give it some time. The square block area of Washington to Classon and Gates to Atlantic will be considered prime real estate in 10 years. Great housing stock (no one refutes this), excellent transportation, minutes from Manhattan, etc. The pockets of poverty, however few, will surely disappear with time as gentrification takes further root. Those looking for Clinton Hill to turn into Park Slope overnight are not being realistic.
So according to SI man and some Anon poster, I guess Brownstoner and the rest of us who live in that “corner” of Clinton Hill are just really stupid and made a bad investment in buying in the ghetto, hmmm.
Silly coversation really.
As for the Fulton BID, I think if you look up “Fulton BID” on Google, there might be some more info. I recall there was a discussion about this recently.
Also, I looked at the Faculty House condos website yesterday (St. James and Atlantic) and it looks like there are only 2 or 3 that are not in contract already. That was pretty quick.
Anon 10:53, do you have more info about the grant that the Fulton Street Association has received?
Why is everybody so hung up on diversity?!? Fuhgetaboutit!! We don’t need no freak’n diversity in Todt Hill!! We got more gold lions, monogrammed gates and pissing Greek statues than all of Brooklyn!!
Actually I think that whole corner of Clinton Hill, despite whatever prices are being slapped on the houses, could be viewed as,er, challenged by socio-economic issues. Drug dealing, homeless people living in trailers on junkyards, at least two short-term hotels on Classon, broken sidewalks, relatively unsophisticated new construction, vacant lots, boarded up storefronts on Fulton. It is tougher than other parts of the neighborhood. When I bought four years ago I thought there would be more improvement, but those who own seem to be sitting on their property or trying to sell it at prices which are prohibitive for self-renovators who aren’t corporate types.
Hey I know SI and Todt hill too.. Mostly flattered that anyone from shalan wouldn’t like our neighb.
So Todt hill is “fancy” for staten island. In fairness it’s prety.. big hill.. views of the city.. very mafia SI masion kind of houses … but with that “special” SI twist.. You know.. decorative gold lions gracing your entry type thing.