House of the Day: 277 Windsor Place
We neglected to include it in Open House Picks on Friday, but 277 Windsor Place is drool-worthy. The wood-paneling is particularly spectacular and the house overall strikes us as one of the grander ones in Windsor Terrace. Of course, the owner clearly knows what she’s got here and ain’t givin’ it away for free. Would…
We neglected to include it in Open House Picks on Friday, but 277 Windsor Place is drool-worthy. The wood-paneling is particularly spectacular and the house overall strikes us as one of the grander ones in Windsor Terrace. Of course, the owner clearly knows what she’s got here and ain’t givin’ it away for free. Would $1.665 million be a record for the neighborhood? There’ve been a couple houses on Prospect Park SW that have been listed for more than this in recent months but we don’t know if they ever got their price.
Listing #5194 [Warren Lewis] GMAP P*Shark
Of course it\’s ridiculous. It\’s always ridiculous…until it involves you or your family, at which point it becomes deadly serious.
Oh please. That’s just ridiculous.
Ummm…gosh, I don’t know. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that, as you move from Windsor Terrace to Lefferts, your life expectancy drops by about 40 years? Maybe it’s because people don’t fancy the idea of a knife in the ribs? Maybe it’s because people have families and they don’t want see their loved ones gunned down before their very eyes? I suspect that these sorts of considerations weigh heavily with some people.
Possible reasons why Windsor Terrace is more expensive than Lefferts Manor:
Unlike LM, WT is in a good school district(15) and has a highly regarded public elementary school (PS 154). It is also close to Park Slope, which, as one of the other posters pointed out, has lots of amenities.
Lefferts Manor has few amenities — Flatbush Avenue is a really unappealing commercial stretch. Also there is more crime in Lefferts Manor than in WT.
Actually the yellow house on PPSW sold for over 1.3 I looked it up on Property Shark. I saw it and it needed a bit of work, but was very charming inside.
Let me rephrase that so I don’t get booted off Brownstoner again…
Wow – that’s a lovely house in Windsor Terrace. It reminds me of kind of detail and grand scale you see in more than half of the homes you see in Lefferts Manor, except that in Lefferts Manor, the houses aren’t broken up into two families.
Still, this type of house fetches more in Windsor Terrace, even though (a) both neighborhoods border the park, and (b) the trains are far more convenient (and offer shorter commutes to Manhattan) in Lefferts Manor.
Why, I wonder?
What’s so special about this house except it’s in a white neighborhood? Every other house in Lefferts Manor looks like this (with that kind of exquisite detail), except they aren’t broken into two families.
There is much to be said for Windsor Terrace. I don’t think it gets the same press as some other Bklyn nabes because not much comes on the market. You don’t see much turnover in this nabe, people stay for a long time.
It’s proximity to Prospect Park, and short distance to the amenities of Park Slope make it very desirable.
If I could get that house for $1.5MM, I’d jump on it (assuming I was actually in the market for something).
I thought that yellow house had been chopped up, dropped ceilings, questionable kitchen, baths, etc…