House of the Day: Hawthorne Street Woodie
We aren’t intimately familiar with Hawthorne Street in Prospect Lefferts Gardens and this house looks okay to us, but we suspect that it is overpriced at $875,000 when compared to some of the more stately brownstones in the Lefferts Manor historic district that begins one block north of this place. So we’ve got a couple…
We aren’t intimately familiar with Hawthorne Street in Prospect Lefferts Gardens and this house looks okay to us, but we suspect that it is overpriced at $875,000 when compared to some of the more stately brownstones in the Lefferts Manor historic district that begins one block north of this place. So we’ve got a couple of questions: 1) What’s this block like? 2) Is this house indeed overpriced?
Hawthorne Street House [Foxtons] GMAP
Anonymous 2:58pm – were you the victim of a violent crime? Do you know someone who was? How often are alleged “violent” crimes committed in Lefferts Manor?
Let’s get it out on the table right now, because I have a funny feeling that you’re the anti-gentrification activist who tries to scare away people from PLG by posting outlandish things about the neighborhood.
Feel free to e-mail me at XOTigre@Yahoo.com if you don’t want to post here.
Right John–it’s an afront to your preconceptions about life in our neighborhood. Truth is we DO have quite a bit to be “smug” about.
Count me out too while you’re at it. This kind of smugness just doesn’t do it for me.
I think it’s better to just say that our wine and cheese party will go on without the above poster.
As someone who has lived in PLG, I would say the earlier poster is quite right about the overall character of PLG. Yes, people live there and raise kids there. The fact is, people live and raise kids just about everywhere, even in the most dangerous places in the world. That proves nothing and it’s sure to be small consolation to someone who moves to PLG only to find him or herself the victim of a violent crime.
Anon. 11:56,
Hypocracy aside, the kind of attitude you refer to simply flies in the face of reality. There are many many white families happily and successfully raising kids in PLG and similar neighborhoods. I did; many others are doing so now. I see many midle class white (and black) kids doing perfectly well here. Granted, some white people may not feel comfortable doing so–a regretable attitude IMO, but, if you feel that way, don’t live here–just accept that your fears are not universal and maybe, just maybe, might be unwarranted.
Our anti-evidence activist is back.
Our anti-gentrification activist is back.
Nice post there, 11:56AM.
Will someone wake me up when drama class is over?
The poster at 7:12 did NOT say he wanted black families to have to live there. YOU are putting words into his mouth. As I read him, he wouldn’t want anyone to have to live there. True, a lot of families are poor and can’t afford to live elsewhere; and I suspect that most of these families are black. But it is HARDLY the earlier poster’s fault that some families are tragically stuck there! Get a grip.