House of the Day: Bay Ridge Beauty
Wow. The more Bay Ridge listings we see, the more we are impressed. (Is it just us, or does it seem like more of them are popping up with the bulge bracket brokers?) After already publishing the Open House Picks on Friday (in which we attributed this place to Jabour Realty), we came across the…
Wow. The more Bay Ridge listings we see, the more we are impressed. (Is it just us, or does it seem like more of them are popping up with the bulge bracket brokers?) After already publishing the Open House Picks on Friday (in which we attributed this place to Jabour Realty), we came across the same house on Corcoran for almost $100k more. Go figure. Anyway, this one-family limestone has some impressive original wood detail, especially on the parlor floor. (Though there is one shot of a wall of exposed brick in the kitchen which makes us glad we decided not to expose any brick in our house.) It seems like these Bay Ridge 3-story rounded-front limestones are similarly priced to those in Prospect Lefferts. Bay Ridge is probably safer and has more infrastructure, but Lefferts is more convenient for Manhattan and Prospect Park access. Which nabe do you think deserves a higher valuation?
78th Street [Corcoran]
I just moved to BR from Windsor Terrace a few months ago and hate it. I didn’t realize it was a wholly Muslim neighborhood. There’s a gang of young Arabs that roam the streets throwing things at people and businesses and harassing passers-by. My next door neighbors are Muslim and their kids are constantly running up and down, slamming against my walls, making my pictures fall down and making it unbearable for me to live in my own apt. The landlord is trying to evict them, as I just learned, they are not on the lease. Some other Arab signed the lease and then this family moved in. I tried to speak to them several times about the noise and they said they would try to control their kids – lies! I asked 4 months ago for them to put down some rugs to mask the noise. They don’t care. They are liars, cheaters and thieves, raising their kids in the honorable Muslim tradition of not taking responsibility for their actions and justifying their lies. I cannot wait to leave here even if I have to live in a Park Slope closet. These people cannot be trusted and should not be in our country. Any and all of them could be supporting the terrorists. Wake up, New Yorkers!!!!
I moved here 3 months ago from Astoria and I have to say it was the WORST mistake of my life!!! I had no idea the commute would suck. I guess I was spoiled in Astoria. It took me 30 minutes door to door from Astoria to Grand Central Station. Now, in Bay Ridge, it takes me 3 trains and an hour & change! Can’t wait for my lease to expire so I could go back to Astoria and sleep later and have more time to self!
Do you mean the kind of “socially upside down, social wackos†who are terrified of lesbians? ‘Cause there are plenty of those in Bay Ridge.
I have no idea where all you people live but BR has gone so down hill. There isnt an ounce of intelligence here. Not one jazz bar nor art gallery. The area is filled with litter and the bike path is falling into the water. I have lived here all my life and watched all the mom and pop shops close to allow cell phone stores and nail salons to open.
That featured house by the way is on 78th betw 3rd and Ridge and is OK but narrow (17 feet) and in an effort to make it appear bigger they removed ALL the internal living room walls so it is literally one big open space until you get to the doors to the Dining Room. Not detail heavy either. Upstairs was a little funky too as they combined two BRS to make the MBR which is fairly common but the two back bedrooms were railroaded — in other words in order to get to one bedroom you had to pass through another. Was listed for 845 and sold for just under.
The beauty of BR is that many think it’s so far away from Manhattan that they equate the move “out there” with a move to SI or LI. This, thnakfully, keeps many suburbia-fobes away. An express bus commute to downtown is very quick – 20 min and less than 10 miles.
We bought a house in BR almost three years ago (the limestone house next door to ours just sold for almost twice what we paid). When we were looking, we walked around LG, but didn’t even look at any houses there. It just didn’t seem like much of a neighborhood. BR has tons of restaurants, stores, groceries, great parks, the waterfront, great schools. People have lived there for generations and it feels like “real” Brooklyn. Yes, there are plenty of Republicans, but I’ll take that kind of diversity over yuppie homogeneity any day.
I adore Bay Ridge. I moved here from soho. Sure, there can be some uptight foul people who don’t know how to dress; but that’s not everyone. You can say that about almost any other neighborhood… although I pray that a trendy store or restaraunt will find its way here. Of course it’s not the easiest commute. But for me, it was more important that I live in a decent house, in a safe neighborhood, and stay at home with my new baby rather than living in a box. I love owl’s head park. I love shore road and all the beautiful mansions (especially the mushroom house!) I love the promenade and the water views. The botanical garden. Living in BR has allowed us to achieve our financial goals without comprimising our family’s safety and well being. Don’t get me wrong, I had the time of my life living in manhattan, but there is a time and place for everything. As for someone asking about why not choosing other areas: Long Island (taxes), Staten Island (just too far out and ferries in the winter is just too much.)
Funny, I have the same reaction to BR. My fondest memory of the area is watching some guy kick (literally) his wife down the sidewalk. As I started to intervene, my wife reminded me that in all probability, if I interfered in their “business” I’d probably get my ass kicked by both husband and WIFE!!! Lessons learned in old-time “conservative values” Brooklyn.
And the dress code among the moms in these nabes is hardly “conservative”, more like slutty. Still, a poster showing some skin is offensive to them.
Thanks, but no thanks.