House of the Day: 369 6th Street
This new listing at 369 6th Street isn’t the biggest or most ornate house in Park Slope but it sure is cute as a button. The three-story brick is a legal two-family but has been configured as a one-family. The moldings and woodwork are impressive and the place clearly has had a tasteful renovation at…
This new listing at 369 6th Street isn’t the biggest or most ornate house in Park Slope but it sure is cute as a button. The three-story brick is a legal two-family but has been configured as a one-family. The moldings and woodwork are impressive and the place clearly has had a tasteful renovation at some point recently. So the question is not whether this place will catch the eye of buyers but what they will make of the $1,749,000 asking price. Thoughts?
369 6th Street [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP P*Shark
This is America, Scott. People make do. if you lived in Greece you’d get an additional 8 weeks vacation
So fully funding a 401K, having a nanny, spending $6K a year on religion, putting away $5K a year for college, spending over $1K a month on groceries and clothes, owning a car in the city, and flying away for vacations counts as “scaping by.”
Perhaps this country is doomed.
Why does this topic reappear every week or so?
Rob is right. My grandfather grew up in a tenemant downtown, with 3 siblings, uncle/aunt/cousin, grandfather all living in a one bedroom apt. They wore used clothing that was patched, and untimately handed down to the next kid. They had one decent meal a day. They survived without transportation expenses, without babysitters when both parents worked, without savings for emergencies, without an ability to plan for the future. Yes, they and many others survived that way. Why shouldnt we all…. I can tell you they were so proud when my parents graduated from city college, married and were able to move to a real 2-BR apartment in Brooklyn, and then eventually buy a small row house in queens and buy a car and raise a few kids sending them all to private parochial school. They would be sutterly dismayed if they knew that their grandchildren — equally educated — couldnt maintain at least that middle class lifestyle, and were forced back into the lifestyle of necessaity that Rob espouses.
they probably don’t go out to pricey restaurants or order cocktails that cost $12.
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Seriously, how do all those orthodox folks with four or more kids handle the expense?
lol.
*rob*
Hell, that was christian parochial! But, Dave, you are right, I know religious jews who spend $30,000 for a family with 2 kids for hebrew school, synogogue , JCC membership. Add to that the expense of keeping kosher, all those holidays, and gees, you need an extra god-knows-how-much to deal. Seriously, how do all those orthodox folks with four or more kids handle the expense?
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Kids are really the thing that make 200G not a good salary in Brooklyn…
they help in scoring a Section 8 voucher, food stamps, temporary cash assistance, free health insurance, etc..
it’s sorta sad that only the very rich and the very poor can maintain a normal lifestyle in this city!
oh yeah, and to the person whining that 200K is pittance in this city, half the shit expenses you listed are totally unnecessary.
*rob*
No guarantees on a profit if you bought in 2005. it had to be before 2001/02 at the latest.