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
Anon 4:44 you are reading the numbers wrong. 161 is not robberies for the entire year, it is comparing YTDs from last year and this year. For complete numbers from 2005, you have to look at the bottom graphic. The stats are higher than anyone would like (as I’m sure is true in any neighborhood), but they are not “up and up.”
Here’s a question: Just because a house has original details from say 1899, is the detail considered beautiful just because it exists? There are existing details that I love, which feel right regardless of time/era. And then there’s just atrociously ugly woodwork that creeps me out, like the stuff in this house. I know y’all are loving it, but my god, am I crazy for absolutely hating it and think it kitschy beyond redemption? It’s like one of those Bavarian theme restaurants or something.
Seriously. Where do you send kids to school in Bed-Stuy/Stuy Heights?
Please don’t say St. Anne’s, Spence or lieing your way into PS 321. Taking my kids on the subway to school everyday isn’t worth the golden oak filligree.
The more a think about it, the more seems like you have to be a stay-at-home mom or dad in order to make it work in these communities.
Seriously. Where do you send kids to school in Bed-Stuy/Stuy Heights?
Please don’t say St. Anne’s, Spence or lying your way into PS 321. Taking my kids on the subway to school everyday isn’t worth the golden oak filligree.
The more a think about it, the more seems like you have to be a stay-at-home mom or dad in order to make it work in these communities.
As far as I’m concerned, middle class is middle class. Black or White. That’s like saying black has a different poverty line as white does. It’s crazy.. and the Bottom line is … Can you afford $6,000 a month ($72,000) for a house? and if you Can, you are Clearly in the MIDDLE CLASS. Because if you can spend $72,000 a year on a mortgage, you’ve got to be making MORE THAN THAT a year.
And I doubt anyone making more than $72,000 can say they are NOT at the very least Middle Class.
According to the crime stats, the number of murders (half-way through 2006) equal the same amount as 2005 (Whole year). Rape is 183% up. The projected robbery (And we have yet to enter the summer) will be 296 as opposed to 161 for the entire 05 year.
Felony assault and larceny, up and up.
WTF, neighborhood stats are important, and yes there are excellent school districts in NYC. If we were as blind as the one who questioned the quality in our schools, we’d all be irresponsible parents
“Clinton Hill is part of Bed/Stuy, too”
Huh, what!?! They are separate sections, next to each other.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/gif/neighbor/neighl.gif
And even more separate when you start talking LPC districts:
http://www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/downloads/pdf/maps/clinton_hill.pdf
http://www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/downloads/pdf/maps/stuyvesant_heights.pdf
Anon 4:00, the definition of middle class in the black community is different than it is for whites. I know many white trustafarians that consider themselves middle class, but they would be considered solidly upper class if they were black. In this community, working class is middle class. It has as much to do with lifestyle, (property owners, business owners, some disposable income, college educated, etc.) as it does with the actual amount of money you have.
honestly I wouldn’t really classify stuyvesant heights as “middle-class black area” I’ve found that there are just as many older people who’ve owned these homes for years before they were valued as there are people of color who are middle class and people who were priced of other areas they considered more desirable.