House of the Day: 421 74th Street
We’re liking the looks of this limestone house at 421 74th Street in Bay Ridge. There’s lots of original detail, a renovated kitchen and an attractive backyard and deck. The price of $795,000 seems pretty reasonably too, especially when you consider that it traded for $725,000 in 2004. Thoughts? 421 74th Street [Aguayo & Huebener]…
We’re liking the looks of this limestone house at 421 74th Street in Bay Ridge. There’s lots of original detail, a renovated kitchen and an attractive backyard and deck. The price of $795,000 seems pretty reasonably too, especially when you consider that it traded for $725,000 in 2004. Thoughts?
421 74th Street [Aguayo & Huebener] GMAP P*Shark
Italiana, where DO you live to always claim such short commutes? To maybe get to work downtown in 30 min from Bay Ridge you would have to take the N and avoid the R entirely, have an office near the Canal Street stop, plus on top of it never have to wait for the N, it would have to be sitting waiting for you when you arrive on the platform. Otherwise no way. From the best locations in Bay Ridge it’s a long long walk to the N stop at 59th Street. Which if we want to get picky about it, isn’t even Bay Ridge. The Northern boundary of Bay Ridge is 65th street.
McK – that’s a pretty serious charge to throw around (and also one that is less than likely, as the sellers are taking significant income tax hits from the RE appreciation).
Peggymax — You can still find limestones and brownstones in decent shape in Bed Stuy, Crown Heights and Prospect Lefferts for under a million, and in lots of work needed shape for $400 to 600K.
Chuck nails it on my view — it’s center of gravity is different — both good and bad.
You can snag a house like this one in Allentown PA for 150k. Location matters. . .
Yeah, I say, stay out of bay ridge, dyker heights, bensonhurst, gravesend, etc., and stick to park slop (what we used ta call it) and your up’n’comin’ ‘hoods, bro. You are way too cool for bay ridge. You are democrats but like your big fat salaries and big fat automobiles (which you can’t park anyway). I’ll be lookin’ for you, rob and chuck! You must like Sara Pale-In, too. Digger.
..although they will still vote republican, you can only change so much.
chuck, don’t be silly, as soon as a number of liberal families move in from Park Slope the locals will see the error of their ways and they will start inviting african americans to their cookouts and will lock arms with gays demanding marriage equality and will develop a taste for sushi and organic escarole.
No Rob you you are wrong. I grew up in Brooklyn and have lived in Bay Ridge for 20 years. I think that real life is living with people of all different opinions. That is a real community! Where do you live?
wash and fold = money laundering through kited re prices in certain enclaves.
It’s tough. I visit a friend in Bay Ridge two blocks from this address. It’s a beautiful area, with great stores, restaurants, bars, etc. And every time we come back from their place, I’m like, “we’re moving.”
Except we never do. You get that far out in Brooklyn, and you’re definitely not living in “NYC” anymore, you’re living in Brooklyn. Nothing wrong with that, of course. I spent 30 minutes checking out this listing on 74th Street, google streetview, etc. And I’m drawn toward Ditmas Park for similar reasons.
But Bay Ridge has its own gravity – 86th Street is a major shopping strip, and the malls on the periphery of Brooklyn (along the Belt) – so my big fear is that the whole reason we live in “the city” (walking, biking, exploring, close to work, etc.) would be subsumed by a not-quite suburban, not-quite city lifestyle.
Who knows.
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