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 think it’s pretty much what Newstoner and CHP have said- if you don’t want to live in a neighborhood, fine- don’t. But why dump on the neighborhood and those that love it? Why insist they are in denial or “Defending BS and it’s obnoxious prices is a defense to pacify the overpayment you made to purchase your money pit?” People like anon 2:17 and 4:03 & 4:10 are not really about discussion or facts. They are about slinging mud. And anon 4:10- the use of the word “Natives” is both obnoxious and childish. Anon 2:47- you wrote “All low-income parents lack the comprehension that what you do and what you say will rub off on your child.
I have witnessed, on my morning walks to work, some parents dropping off their kids at a school yard and not interacting with the other parents. Some have chips on their shoulders, but all they have a civil servant job and a bunch of food stamps in their drawers.”- I have no idea where you get your info from but I guarantee you it is not from first hand experience. Your comment that no low-income parent cares about their kids education is so untrue that I have a difficult time believing anyone with any education or intelligence could say it. Having grown up with “low income” parents who made sure I and my sister went to college, I know for a fact your argument is specious (if you went to college you’ll know that word) and erroneous (oooh- another big word for you.) Since you don’t seem to suffer overmuch from the constraints of logic or fact it really doesn’t pay to argue with you. Send your kids to private school-please!- if they have the same attitude as their parent, they surely are no asset to their class.
How about those Mets? Top of the division, feels like 86′ all over again.
Hey, 4:10, I recognize your unique, albeit, hateful style. You are the “Saviour of Crown Heights”, who argued that you were doing that nabe a favor by buying it up and renting to “the Natives”. I find it hard to understand why someone who seems to hate us “Natives” so much, is spending so much time and money in our various hoods. Methinks your objection to various posters’ love of their neighborhoods, and willingness to spend big bucks in said hood, signifies your frustration in the rising prices, and the “Natives'” unwillingness to part with what is now very prime real estate.
You can quote all the crime stats you want to. You can tell us we’re all certifiably crazy for wanting to live here, you can throw hate and bigotry and “Natives” around till the next Aryan Nation meeting, but the good people who make these worthy areas our homes are not going to cave in to the likes of you. You may as well call it a day, and go home. We are home, and are quite proud of it, and mean to stay.
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So I heard the weather is suppose to be absolutely beautiful the rest of the week, anyone going out to the park?
Here we go again, the litigator, Ms. CHP, is back to defend the slums of Brooklyn. She’s obviously in denial about the crime and school stats or else she’d defend my point of view.
If I’m paying $1.23M for a home it sure isn’t an attached old relic where it needs constant maintanence. I’m paying this $ amount in a hood where the crime and schools are decent. Walk down to the nearest precinct (Natives are welcome) and act like you’re interested in buying a home and ask about the hood. I bet the hair in the back of your necks will rise after what the PO will tell you. Go ahead and prove me wrong, I’ll be waiting your comments. But until then, I suggest you stop attacking me with your baseless and childish remarks
If all this is true, the asking price of $1,235,000 seems a little lower than we would have expected. What say ye?
That’s what this thread asked.
Now what’s crazy about my comment.
What say ye, and I shall respond. If you don’t like the response, don’t act like it’s a personal comment toward you, and move on. I’m qualified to make a comment about the ridiculous price of this home as you are (Maybe not) in response to my comments.
Defending BS and it’s obnoxious prices is a defense to pacify the overpayment you made to purchase your money pit
I see the moron troll who picks fights in PLG, BS, and CH has roused him/her self from his/her mossy bed in the basement, and shuffled over to the computer to spill yet more bile and vitriole at the decent people who try to have an intelligent conversation here.
I have to believe that this is true, because that the person or persons who spews forth such insulting nonsense as “I’ve been reading your poor pathetic defense of a hood that is crime infested and has about the same public transportation as Baghdad (The crime can also be synonymous)”, and the crap about the parents of inner city school kids, is either writing to get a negative affect or is one sick mofo. It really gets tiresome. There are ligitimate issues about pricing, housing stock, even quality of life, to be discussed, without some nut job thowing gasoline on the fire.
BrownBomber, you eloquently made some really good points. I don’t agree that Stuy Heights is a separate nabe, but that is not worth quibbling about. I’m glad you are investing in the long term future of the neighborhood, and I’m sure your house is great. None of you proud residents of any part of BS should feel you have to continuously have to defend the neighborhood, or your homes, and the choices that brought you to them. Keep on keepin on.
It still amazes me completely, that people can try and act like Cyber tough guys. To try and say the house is worth $500K could be just as crazy as saying it’s worth $1.23.
If you don’t want to pay $1.23 then fine, don’t. But do you have to take a dump on the entire hood, just because YOU don’t want to live there? I think it very well COULD be worth $1.2, but I just wouldn’t be able to do it. Me.. Personally.. I just recently moved in to the neighborhood, thankfully a year ago, so I didn’t have to pay that extra premium that was associated with the tail end of the real estate boom.
So if I were trying to buy today, in Stuy Heights, sadly, I’d be priced out.
But I wouldn’t compare Bainbridge to any block in E. New York.
Good Grief!!
Anon 3:05, your comment is ridiculous, annoying and pointless, as you fear the truth