House of the Day: 39 Buckingham Road
We like the looks of this house on Buckingham Road (which, according to Google, is the same thing as East 16th Street). The recently renovated Victorian one-family has six bedrooms and is dripping with original woodwork and floors. We don’t have a strong opinion about the price. The house looks like it could be worth…
We like the looks of this house on Buckingham Road (which, according to Google, is the same thing as East 16th Street). The recently renovated Victorian one-family has six bedrooms and is dripping with original woodwork and floors. We don’t have a strong opinion about the price. The house looks like it could be worth it but we suspect it depends on what the rest of the block is like. How ’bout it?
39 Buckingham Road [Aguayo & Huebener] GMAP P*Shark
Can’t we have a discussion without bringing people’s ethnicity into it?
I have to agree with anon 2:33. I don’t think the comments were denegrating other nabes but rather pointing out that a strong community exists that other seemingly more gentrified nabes do not offer. I also think he/she makes a fair point about someone who decided to hang out at 11 pm and thought it was, “scary” when much of the actual real crimes people are worried about happen in so called safer nabes at 11 pm.
The way to defend your neighborhood is not by running other people’s neighborhoods down.
feel compelled to write since this is my block in Caton Park that you are all referring to. with regardes to the unsavory seediness of church ave. at 11pm on a sat. night. i’m wondering whether you find the junkies in the north park slope area or the screaming car radios and mounds of garbage left after and during concerts at the 9th st. bandshell or how about those lovely quiet streets near grand army where we all warn our kids not to go because of the muggings and rapes that occur there too frequent to count.. let me see, could it be that the majority of families whom reside in my neighborhood my not be of the same socio-economic bckgr. as you!. so tired of the keeping up with the jones mentality. i really hope you don’t move here.. when we have ball games soccer games and barbecue on the streets it is spotless the next morning. you wouldn’t know anything went on. as for the pre=school on our block. those children are so well-mannered their parents NOT their babysitters drop them off and pick them up. if there is ever an issue the teachers and staff are hands on and the only issue has been when someone may have blocked a driveway picking up a child and at that it was just a few moments to find the parent.. How dare any of you make assumptions about a neighborhood that you step into for a few seconds!yes, church ave. is busy but the fish store has the same women buying for their families.. the meat market is spotless and NOT OVERPRICED!!!..the buses run like clockwork the police are constantly patrolling.. and we have our community meetings where the district leaders the police and the neighbors all get together… i consider myself truly fortunate to have stumbled upon this amazing place to live.. my children have thrived and i have the great fortune to know people that actually care about people more than renovating a brownstone..and by the way, i know the owners of the property for sale they have been wonderful and given so much that all of us are sorry to see them leave..we can only hope that the next owners of this wonderful property appreciate this fabulous place to live and participate with us in this Caton Park community
Excuse me, but I live in the Ditmas Park area and I don’t feel comfortable with the group of youth who hang out across the street from my house on weekends. By the way, most of them happen to be white.
hey lily-white..have you ever checked out any block in park slope after 11pm from grand army plaza to the pavilion i live on this block in Caton Park. after 20 years in the slope this is the first time i feel like i have neighbors who know what’s going on in their neighborhood and who care and do something about quality of life issues!we actually still have community association meetings where the district leaders..police and neighborhood talk and make each other aware of what needs to be done..`
We made an offer on this place about three weeks ago for $1.1 million. The top bidder was $1.125 mil. About a week and a half later we learned that the top bidders had backed out. I decided to check it out again, this time on a Saturday night about 11pm. Too many folks hanging out on the corner for me to be comfortable with. It’s a terrific house in a bad location.
And they still are. They’re all part of Flatbush. But Flatbush is huge, geographically, and characterized by a variety of architectural styles, neighborhoods, etc… Many of these “new” names were simply how these developements were originally marketed. Not unlike today’s gated communities in the ‘burbs – Sringcreek Meadows, blah blah blah etc… Today it’s just a helpful way of pinpointing certain parts of the nabe. OK, Mr. or Ms. Super-authentic-the-rest-of-us-are-pathetic-interlopers-Brooklyn
Caton Park, Ditmas Park, Beverly Square West!! It is clear that none of you are real Brooklynites. When I was growing up in what is now known as Caton Park, all of these neighborhoods were known as Flatbush.