House of the Day: 392 Waverly Avenue
Across the street from the property PACC is selling in a lottery for $600,000 sits this three story brick house at 392 Waverly Avenue. The house has all of its original details intact and the owner has spent a bunch of dough on fancy kitchen and bathroom appliances. As nice as it looks to us,…
Across the street from the property PACC is selling in a lottery for $600,000 sits this three story brick house at 392 Waverly Avenue. The house has all of its original details intact and the owner has spent a bunch of dough on fancy kitchen and bathroom appliances. As nice as it looks to us, though, there is really only 2,400 square feet of above-ground space so the asking price of $1,675,000 seems aggressive to us (as much as we’d like to see $700 a foot comps in the nabe!). Do people think being across the street from an elementary school is a positive or negative?
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Positive. Criteria for protecting kids automatically benefits you, in theory. Drugs, kidnapping, stray bullets, etc. – schools are, or are supposed to be, watched for these kinds of things. But the noise.
I don’t know…I’ve lived across P.S. 3 in Bed Stuy for 6 years now and I haven’t had half the problems that Brenda has. I have experienced the schoolbuses and doubleparked SUVs in the morning (I’m at work when this happens at the end of the school day) but I haven’t seen any of the vandalism and quality of life issues. As a matter of fact, I and my visitors appreciate all the extra parking available at nights, weekends and during holidays, etc. I also appreciate the crossing guards, police and other watchful eyes. It also works wonders to call the police and complain about something you see and indicating that the problem is “within X feet of an elementary school.”
I live across from an elementary school on Clermont (btwn DeKalb/Willoughby) — I work at home sometimes and never find it too bad. It’s loud in the AM (like at 8:15) and then again at lunchtime but it’s really OK from a noise standpoint. The negative is that the school isn’t the most visually appealling and that trash is left out on the sidewalk each night — i regularly have to call 311 to have it picked up.
I live across from a HS (a small one though under 1000 students) and even days I’m home is pretty quiet. When school lets out in afternoon short period of noisey. School security is very active kids are not loitering around area during school hours.
And it is attractive building to look at out the front window.
Hmmmm. Since you put it that way, Brenda, the grade school thing is looking less cute to me. Thanks for the point of view.
Having lived across the street from a public elementary school for 20 years, let me count the ways I love it: School buses idling and blocking our driveways endlessly. Parents double-parked in SUVs picking up and dropping off kids. Litter, pound after pound of it. Teachers taking ciggie breaks on our front lawns and tossing butts all over. Parents taking kids up our driveways to take a leak while school is still open (along, presumably, with school restrooms). Parents cheerfully ignoring kids as they tear up armloads of our flowers and throw rocks at our windows. Kids (very young ones) trying to drag off our potted plants and, once, our yard furniture. Kids prank-ringing our doorbell. Parents screaming obscenities at kids and one another during occasional sidewalk altercations. All-night-long roar of some weird rooftop air conditioner or compressor. Street lit at night by roof-mounted “jailyard” sodium-vapor lamps. Empty half-block used after school hours for pissing, drugging, fighting (despite ghastly glare of above-mentioned lamps). Not quite the joyful patter of little feet, I’m afraid. (This is all just PS 249, by the way–can’t testify to other schools–and all are chronic longstanding issues we have addressed in futility with the administration, who always insist there is absolutely nothing they can do about anything or anyone because everything and everyone is UNIONIZED and mandated by mysterious regulations…)
I agree — having lived next to PS 8 and PS 29 (as well as an elementary school in Chelsea) — if you’re home at recess it’s a nightmare — kids are LOUD! Otherwise it’s fine.
I agree with 12:02 and 12:08: Elementary school is cute. High school is not.
if you work a normal 9-5 job, then across from the school isn’t too bad, especially since people are usually making sure the street is safe, but if you work at home, then its deadly – loud screaming kids all day long.