House of the Day: Clifton Place Move-In Ready
This new listing on Clifton Place looks pretty nice–and is $150,000 cheaper than the similar Cambridge Place listing a couple of blocks away. This listing looks like it may not have quite as much historic detail as the one on Cambridge, but it certainly is a lovely block. Clearly this place has been renovated recently…
This new listing on Clifton Place looks pretty nice–and is $150,000 cheaper than the similar Cambridge Place listing a couple of blocks away. This listing looks like it may not have quite as much historic detail as the one on Cambridge, but it certainly is a lovely block. Clearly this place has been renovated recently and is in move-in condition. The top floor has some design decisions we don’t love, but that’s just a personal thing. The house is listed as a multi-family but we have no idea whether it’s a 2- or 3-family (looks like it couldn’t be 4). We think $1.4 million is about market for this place, so it may have a shot at fetching the ask of $1.5 million.
Clifton Place Townhouse [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP
don’t forget
http://www.insideschools.org/fs/school_profile.php?id=379
No hating 1:21 poster. Butgot to give props to the peeps who are working to make 56 & 11 better. You can’t just move into a neighborhood and expect greatness without any work. I’d encourage people reading this thread to join the Fort Greene Assn, Clinton Hill Society & other local orgs to help make a great neighborhood greater.
Here’s a good website for school information:
http://www.schoolmatters.com/
No website, but a listserv-friendsofps11 at mindspring dot com, that is:
friendsofps11@mindspring.com.
There is also a pretty active Fort Greene/Clinton Hill Yahoo group for the neighborhood parents:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FGKids/
Yeah, it was listed late winter for 1.375. I thought it was over priced then, as compared to 92 St. James, 200 ft away (remember, ‘Stoner? I think we discussed this house after we looked at 92 St. James) which is smaller, but much nicer with a better (read: more family-friendly) layout (3 over 1). I don’t think it’s a flipper. My guess, from the location and the layout, is that it was owned by a childless art professor at Pratt. Used the wide-open top floor as a studio; lived in the spacious 1 bed apt below it; rented the cheap, poorly laid out apartment on the parlor and eng. basement levels to students who wouldn’t give a —-.
As for schools, this house, I believe, would send elementary age kids to PS 56. I wouldn’t send my kid to PS 56 if it was free. Oh, wait, it is free. And I’m not sending my kid there. (Go ahead, let the hating start.) PS 11 is reported to be on an upswing and does have some fantastic familial involvement. I think it still needs a bit of a wait and see approach, though. It will probably be a great school in 4 or 5 years. PS 56 will hopefully/probably follow the same direction of PS 11 – lots of great family involvement will start to pull it up.
The moral of the story? Somebody needs to buy this house for a low-ball offer and start getting involved at PS 56!
Thanks, but we meant the exact address of the house–sounds like we could use a little Property Shark info about now…
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=419+WAVERLY+AVENUE,+BROOKLYN,&ll=40.686244,-73.966548&spn=0.012474,0.019916&hl=en
http://www.nycenet.edu/Templates/Schools/Regions/School.aspx?NRMODE=Published&NRORIGINALURL=%2fOurSchools%2fRegion8%2fK011%2fdefault%2ehtm&NRNODEGUID=%7b4E0D8954-7724-4EAD-9989-C44426C932D5%7d&NRCACHEHINT=Guest
does friends of ps 11 have a website or contact info?
Does anyone know the exact address?