House of the Day: 202 15th Street
This ole South Slope woodframe is very cute and looks to have been lovingly maintained. It last changed hands back in August 2004 for $920,000 and is on the market for $1.2 million. We’ve got no idea if the current owner made any significant improvements but at $600 a foot, this has to be pushing…
This ole South Slope woodframe is very cute and looks to have been lovingly maintained. It last changed hands back in August 2004 for $920,000 and is on the market for $1.2 million. We’ve got no idea if the current owner made any significant improvements but at $600 a foot, this has to be pushing the upper bounds for the area. That said, we all know the square foot metric isn’t always the more useful when looking at smaller houses, where layout can play such a crucial role. What do the South Slopers think of this price?
202 15th Street [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
It’s true there are fewer good middle school choices than elementary but there are a few good ones in District 15 — MS 51 in Park Slope, Brooklyn School for Collaborative Studies in Carroll Gardens, Upper Carroll (might have a different name now)in Carroll Gardens are all very sought-after schools. New Voices in the South Slope is also supposed to be good.
has anyone noticed what a dump the bedroom is? the bed is slammed against the very unattractive windows. i’d say this is absurdly overpriced for a place this diminutive.
I love Fort Greene too. And just think, not too long ago it was considered a bad crime area with no amenities. (I don’t live there, I’m just a fan.)
What ARE the good public middle schools in Brooklyn? Are there any? We only hear discussion of the public elementary schools.
And BTW, in terms of neighborhoods, my favourite Brooklyn neighborhood is probably Fort Greene, but for this price there isn’t too much you could get there anymore (at least not reasonably close to a subway — Willoughby et al are just too far, unless you’re closer to the Dekalb Ave stop. I was speaking only in terms of comparable pricing from what I’ve seen lately, so I certainly wouldn’t want to bash any other neighborhoods. PS is not my cup of tea, for a variety of reasons (I’m no fan of the F or R trains — I prefer the areas closer to the Q, B, 2, and 3 in PS), but I could understand how one could want to live there.
I think what 8:31 is refering to is the lack of decent public middle schools in this city. Even the “good” ones are vastly oversized!
“Everyone” sends their kids to private school after 5th grade? What are you talking about?
I live in one of those little frame houses and it is definitely hard to find a couch that fits in the little rooms (and through the narrow little doorways). But it makes a nice one-family house; going to a 2-family makes for a tight squeeze if you have older children. It seems overpriced to me since similar houses farther up 15th were selling for less last year.
These discussions DO relate to this house here, because it’s the endless dilemma in NYC – space vs. location vs. what you get for the money.
It’s an adorable house! Seems high, but they’ll sell it for a little over a million. As for SS vs LM, there’s no question South Slope is geographically closer on a map to the Park Slope amenities. (And no question LM has few amenities.) That said, you gotta be kidding me, it’s way faster to take the Q one stop to PS from LM, than it is to take the bus or the R from South Slope to Union Street in prime PS. Taking the R from South Slope is pokey frustrating travel to the Slope or the city or wherever. As for paying for private schools, everyone in most nabes in Brooklyn (and Manhattan too for that matter) send their children to private school after 5th grade anyway, right? In the end, if everyone absolutely must have upscale restaurants near anyplace they buy, then no wonder everyone is paying too much for houses in Brooklyn.
Gee, and all I meant by that was for that price (or less), I’d like a bigger, stone house (not a wood frame, because I think they’re inhernetly more work to maintain and provide less natural insulation). Nothing about the neighborhoods at all, except that I think a good deal of the price of this one has to do with its location near PS attractions, which to me isn’t that important. Otherwise, I love the look of the house and have absolutely nothing against it — I was just expressing where I’d put that much money.