House of the Day: 1127 Glenwood Road
This baby’s hot off the presses, having hit the Mary Kay Gallagher website on Tuesday. The 4,400-square-foot house at 1127 Glenwood Road is divided up into two duplex units, one of which rents for about $3,000 a month. Given the rental income, the level of overall historic detail and the ever-increasing desirability of the Victorian…
This baby’s hot off the presses, having hit the Mary Kay Gallagher website on Tuesday. The 4,400-square-foot house at 1127 Glenwood Road is divided up into two duplex units, one of which rents for about $3,000 a month. Given the rental income, the level of overall historic detail and the ever-increasing desirability of the Victorian Flatbush location, we suspect this will have buyers lined up around the block at the listing price of $1,275,000. Given its corner location, the taxes don’t look too bad at $4,458 either. The only bummer we can see is a bathroom that redefines the word ‘cheesy’ and doesn’t go at all with the rest of the house. Predictions on how fast this will go?
1127 Glenwood Road [Mary Kay Gallagher] GMAP P*Shark
Drove past it, the house looks much more tired and therefore higher maintenance than the picture suggests. It is literally two houses from coney island avenue which is 90% arabic/halal food places — no problem for us, but it will put some off. It is a hike to cortelyu rd.
Midwood and Victorian Flatbush ARE generally safer (statistically) than BS, PLG and CH…
This is the first time we’ve seen Mr. Brownstoner ask for calm on a thread, in response to provocative comments about crime in a neighborhood. We always see these crime-trolls on threads about Bed-Stuy, Crown Heights and PLG and those get far more crazy and heated than this discussion did. Seems Midwood & MKG merits the quick intervention though. How very interesting.
thanks 6:57, but then you have to live instaten island….
Well, if you want a victorian house in the ‘burbs with an easy comute and
surrounded by victorians in a protected historic district…try this
http://www.344stpaulsave.com/
To the above posters re: suburban Victorian neighborhoods… Yes, I’m well aware these places exist (I even mentioned Nyack and Rumson). My point was that these places had beautiful, well kept, grand Victorian homes that are in extremely desirable neighborhoods….
However, to the poster who would buy a Victorian in the suburbs and not in Ditmas due to safety issues —- I grew up in Rockland County and in my hometown just last year a woman was murdered in her own home in broad daylight by a handman she hired. That’s just the tip of the iceberg. Crime is everywhere now. The poor are not just in NYC anymore… Many people who used to live in Brooklyn neighborhoods and can’t afford it are living a stone’s throw away from Greenwich and Montclair. Neighborhoods in the suburbs can now change in the blink of an eye… If you are a transplant from somewhere else in the country to NYC and don’t know the NYC suburbs – how they were 30 years ago and how they have come to resemble sprawling versions of urban communities in many ways…. You should get on the next Greyhound bus from Port Authority and take the unsanitized tour.
I’m very happy to use car services for my older kids, BTW…. Better than having them drink behind my back then drive home from a party in Nutley.
To the above posters re: suburban Victorian neighborhoods… Yes, I’m well aware these places exist (I even mentioned Nyack and Rumson). My point was that these places had beautiful, well kept, grand Victorian homes that are in extremely desirable neighborhoods….
However, to the poster who would buy a Victorian in the suburbs and not in Ditmas due to safety issues —- I grew up in Rockland County and in my hometown just last year a woman was murdered in her own home in broad daylight by a handman she hired. That’s just the tip of the iceberg. Crime is everywhere now. The poor are not just in NYC anymore… Many people who used to live in Brooklyn neighborhoods and can’t afford it are living a stone’s throw away from Greenwich and Montclair. Neighborhoods in the suburbs can now change in the blink of an eye… If you are a transplant from somewhere else in the country to NYC and don’t know the NYC suburbs – how they were 30 years ago and how they have come to resemble sprawling versions of urban communities in many ways…. You should get on the next Greyhound bus from Port Authority and take the unsanitized tour.
I’m very happy to use car services for my older kids, BTW…. Better than having them drink behind my back then drive home from a party in Nutley.
I also want clarification re: Midwood. Avenues J, K, L, M–say, from the Brighton Line to New York Avenue is what I think of as Midwood and it’s pretty safe. IMO it was prettier when it was all frame houses than it is now with its bizarre overbuilt mcmansions, but I don’t really think it’s that funky.
Are all the Russian immigrants and orthodox Jews mugging people in Midwood? I’m sure neighborhood names have changed in recent years, so maybe I’m confused, but Midwood…high crime?