House of the Day: Stuy Heights Gem
Another beauty from Stuyvesant Heights by way of Craigslist. The 4,300-square-foot two-family is configured as an owner’s triplex over a garden rental. By all appearances (and the broker’s flowery prose) it sounds like this is one of those jaw-droppers, complete with original restored woodwork, wainscotting, and pier mirrors. The 1899 house also has a center…
Another beauty from Stuyvesant Heights by way of Craigslist. The 4,300-square-foot two-family is configured as an owner’s triplex over a garden rental. By all appearances (and the broker’s flowery prose) it sounds like this is one of those jaw-droppers, complete with original restored woodwork, wainscotting, and pier mirrors. The 1899 house also has a center stair with an “intricate oak basket weave design” on the railings and restored golden oak lattice work overhead. Located on Bainbridge off Lewis Avenue, the house is only a couple of blocks from the A train. If all this is true, the asking price of $1,235,000 seems a little lower than we would have expected. What say ye?
Bainbridge at Lewis Ave [Craigslist] GMAP
I don’t care for your comments and I’m directing my comments directly to YOU!
And now I’m Done! 😀
New stoner, please don’t respond directly to me if you say you don’t care for my comments. Now I’m done with you
Anon 10:38.
You feel this part of BK is a slum… Ok… fine. Kewl Wit me. I don’t. I actually think it is an AMAZING BLOCK. Beautiful even!! I also feel the price may be a little high. But you know what, I own a Brownstone just a few blocks away. And I think it’s safe to say you won’t be invited to any of my bbq’s in the near future. End of story. I’m sure there are quite a bit more opinionated thoughts you may have, but It’s not really that interesting. I think your arguement would hold more water if all the homes in the area were about $150K and this one was priced at $1.2MM, then MAYBE you could say something.
But I think your talent merely lies in insighting RIOTS. and Slick talk!
BX2BK…. Thank YOU for making sense out of this NON-Sense.
Now let me get back to figuring out what appliances to go with in my new kitchen!!!! decision decisions!!!
if someone pays then the price aint too high. hate the buyer, not the seller. anyway, i’ve arranged to see the place this weekend, and am looking forward to seeing the home and the neighborhood. i grew up in brooklyn and am currently at the point in life where i am looking to move back to a brownstone in the county of kings. must admit however that i am quite bitter at how i couldn’t even come close to affording the limestone i grew up in park slope. lefferts is as close as i can get to the park now and still entertain thoughts of living in a grand brownstone. and this here bstone appears to be a grand one ladies and gents.
Yeah, I’m a nut because I view this part of NYC as the slums.
Wasn’t CHP’s comment similar to the one I’ve made: I’m entitled to my opinion.
If anyone’s a nut, it’s you anon 5:32.
And by the way, may I add your comment was borderline stupid. I take it back, it was uninforming and stupid
The problem here is engaging this nut. Please, everyone, cease and desist.
That was me. So tired of the crap, I forgot to sign in.
Why is it impossible for some people to simply say, “this neighborhood isn’t for me” or even, “NYC public schools are not for me, or my kids”? Most rational people, whether they agree with you or not, would have no problem saying you are entitled to your opinions, as are those who disagree.
Why must any discussion of Bed Stuy, Crown Heights or Prospect Lefferts Gardens deteriorate so rapidly. It’s always the same: if you defend your choices in living in your neighborhood, you are labelled as crazy, deluded, complacent, and somehow condoning of all of the ills of each nabe. Not only that, you are somehow dangerous, because your love of your neighborhood is seen as threatening to other people, and other neigborhoods. I have never seen anyone, and I repeat, ANYONE, who live in and loves these nabes, ever say that they were perfect, and didn’t have serious social problems going on. NO ONE ever said there is no crime, no problem people, no noise, no quality of life issues. We know about all of these things – WE LIVE HERE! We encounter them every day. Most of the people who are so offended that we are able and willing to spend a lot of money to live in these places don’t live there, never have, and (thank God) never will. Fine.
Why always the vitriol? In no other posts do you read where people have the nerve to say things like “lived amongst the undesireables that have been outcast in this hood for years.”, “Natives are welcome”, and “slum hood”, and all that in less than one day.
You don’t want to buy here? Don’t. You think it’s dangerous? Stay away. Prices overinflated? Spend elsewhere. Don’t like the “natives”? Don’t visit.
No one asked any of you doomsayers to protect everyone else from the big bad hood. Let people make up their own minds. Let those who choose to live here or buy here with intentions of raising families in safety and in gorgeous surroundings do so. Why is that so hard to do?
You’re right BB, I will be sending my children to private school, as opposed to the public school circus that you’ve grown to live with.
The neighborhood this house sits on is statistically low in every aspect. And arguing this statement epitomizes your frustration of having lived amongst the undesireables that have been outcast in this hood for years.
Good riddance to you all. This subject is obviously too personal for all of you to admit that the house is overpriced and located in the bowels of the city