House of the Day: What Price PLG Perfection?
Even though $1.395 million is a lot of dough for Lefferts Manor we think this new listing won’t even be around to see the fireworks next week. If you’re into period perfection this place will knock your socks off. (On the flip side, if you’re not, it’ll make you gag.) It’s got the full monty:…
Even though $1.395 million is a lot of dough for Lefferts Manor we think this new listing won’t even be around to see the fireworks next week. If you’re into period perfection this place will knock your socks off. (On the flip side, if you’re not, it’ll make you gag.) It’s got the full monty: parquet floors, carved wood paneling, leaded stained glass. The 20-foot detached house sits on a 37-foot-wide lot on the neighborhood’s (arguably) best block. For $100,000 less, we think this is looking like a better buy than 68 Midwood despite the latter’s many positive attributes. Think we’ve got that right?
77 Midwood Street [Aguayo & Huebener] GMAP P*Shark
I don’t see a problem in pointing out the obvious. If you’d like to talk to me in greater detail, please e-mail me. I don’t want to get into a tit-for-tat here.
My sense is that your whole aim was to ruffle feathers, as this affords you the opportunity smugly to claim the moral high ground.
By the way – Fort Greene is far more convenient to Manhattan and closer to Brooklyn Heights than Carroll Gardens (a neighborhood which has a long history of running out visiting blacks from Red Hook out by means of Italian thugs weilding baseball bats). If you actually think that race wasn’t a huge reason Carroll Gardens gentrified before Fort Greene, you are deceiving yourself.
Pigmentation is a huge factor in how neighborhoods gentrify. Make your excuses. Call me a race-baiter. Twirl yourselves into a tizzy. Etc., etc. Yawn.
I stand by what I said, and it doesn’t surprise me that it’s ruffled some feathers.
racebait?? just because some people choose to speak in code and he does not? :confused:
I totally agree with Anon’s (many) posts above. Location is more important than the race of people in the area. Otherwise Bay Ridge would have been gentrified years ago. The race-baiting of Ed’s posts is offensive.
That is so strange–my previous posts were not there when I checked back so I thought they had been accidentally deleted in a spam cleaning and I rewrote them. Now you have multiple versions. Sorry.
ED-Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens gentrified first because they are next to the Heights, just as Prospect Heights, FG, and Windsor Terrace gentrified because they’re next to the slope, and just as Clinton Hill is gentrifying because it is next to FG. Not to mention Boerum Hill, which gentrified because it is between Cobble Hill and the slope, even though it still has a large poor black population. And have you heard that Red Hook is hot? It took gentrification a while to hop over the BQE, but it finally did. The bottom line is that people want to be able to walk to a gentrified area and gentrified shopping. I know you really want to believe that people won’t pay 1.2Mplus to live in PLG because they are evil racists, but the real issue is that they are just lazy.
And I forgot to mention Boerum Hill (how do you spell that?), which gentrified because it is next to Cobble Hill and near the slope–even though it still has a large poor black population. Not to mention Prospect Heights and now Red Hook.