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
I own a frame house. sniff sniff
I just got back from a walk to Hawthorne Street.The house is #99, on the Bedford–Flatbush block, a few houses from Bedford (a loooong block from Flatbush). It looks to me like an OK house, but somewhat remuddled–vinyl siding and what looks to me like a cement block porch.
I’d think you could get a two story house in Lefferts Manor for this price. It would be about the same size, the Hawthorne St. house is only 1,936 sq. ft., according to Propertyshark, but there couldn’t be any rental income.
FWIW, I know a couple (cousins of a friend) who moved from Manhattan to a co-op on the next (Bedford–Rogers) block of Hawthorne recently.I’m told they’re quite happy.
Any guesses what community has the most frame houses? I think Bushwick.
worst yet, how about a wood frame house thats semi detached – talk about heating and air conditioning issues.
And when the big earthquake comes (NYC is on a major fault line which is due to errupt soon) folks living in wood frame houses will live while folks living in brick houses won’t fare as well (to put it mildly).
from 2:14 the location is Hawthorne bet Flatbush/Bedford
I just moved from Hawthorne Bedford/Rogers..This is Hawthorne Flatbush/Rogers…I lived on the better block they could not pay me to live on this block..there are many SRO’s on the block. Corner building across the street nr flatbush is the pits people always hanging out. Flatbush Ave in general is too crazy and crowded..I grew to dislike living on Hawthorne immensely(crowded/gunshots/unfriendly people/bad supermarkets)and just bided my time to leave..I’M OUT
No it’s never 60F in the winter and 100F in the summer in a wood frame house 😉
As crazy as the rest of the market is in Brooklyn, I really don’t understand what is behind the asking prices in PLG. Things just really seem all over the map there right now.