House of the Day: 408 Stuyvesant Avenue Revisited
This house at 408 Stuyvesant Avenue in Stuyvesant Heights (house on right) is such a gem that it’s hard to put down but when it was listed last winter with Halstead the $2,100,000 asking price was met by universal derision in the comments section of the thread. Well, not surprisingly, the property failed to move…
This house at 408 Stuyvesant Avenue in Stuyvesant Heights (house on right) is such a gem that it’s hard to put down but when it was listed last winter with Halstead the $2,100,000 asking price was met by universal derision in the comments section of the thread. Well, not surprisingly, the property failed to move at that price and Corcoran wound up with the listing where it’s recently been cut from $1,950,000 to $1,895,000. Frankly, it seems like it’s still got a ways to go, especially considering the tenant who’s looking pretty comfortable in that sixth unit. Waddya say? $1,600,000? $1,500,000?
408 Stuyvesant Avenue [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
408 Stuyvesant Avenue [Brownstoner]
Its not within 25 mins od midtown is it
Walnut Grove MN had 0 murders in the last decade but I don’t see you moving there 11:23….
9.01 – Greenpoint murder rate: 0
And most people would rather put up with alcoholic bums than gun-toting dealers of other drugs.
Has anyone seen 385 Lewis Ave.? 2 family, $675k. I’m new to the brownstone thing, and I’m very interested in it, but it needs a solid $75-100k in renovations. Just trying to price the market. Thanks in advance for any tips.
Has anyone seen 385 Lewis Ave.? 2 family, $675k. I’m new to the brownstone thing, and I’m very interested in it, but it needs a solid $75-100k in renovations. Just trying to price the market. Thanks in advance for any tips.
Like someone stated earlier Bed ford Stuyvesant is a very large neighborhood maybe the largest in NYC. Sixty years ago it was two separate neighborhoods Bed ford and Stuyvesant Heights. The name Bed-Stuy is something that happened in the 1960s. With a population larger than other neighborhood in Brooklyn you are going to have more crime but this area covers a good portion of the city. If this was four separated neighborhoods you would have the same amount of crime you have everywhere else.
Much like Harlem, I have notice that more young European white couples and artistic gay people moving into the area very much like Ft Greene 15 years ago or even Soho/Tribecca 30 years ago. Many young 30/40 something black professional have being moving in renovation many of the brownstones for some years now.
To the new people that does not mind being “pioneers” welcome. To the people that want there “designer” neighborhoods please stay put. In 10 years when this house has tripled in value I know I going to be wishing I could have brought this home.
One of the biggest problems Bed-Stuy is facing is slumlords that don’t live in the area. These people are ruining the brownstones with the removal original details and the replacement of cheap materials. Seems like these slumlords are allergic to improving these often time beautiful properties.
Projects aren’t the only factor in the quality of life of a neighborhood.
And it speaks volumes about the state of race issues in the city when a neighborhood like Greenpoint (no direct transportation, mostly chintzy wood frame houses with vinyl siding, extremely toxic, etc.) is more highly valued than a solidly middle class black neighborhood rich with architectural/historical value.
A neighborhood with million dollar houses is “bad” or “low income”. It’s not like “low income” people can afford a $4000/month mortgage. And while some crimes are higher here than many neighborhoods, we don’t have as many grand larcenies as Brooklyn Heights or Park Slope, not to mention the unreported crime that goes on in those neighborhoods (ie: drunken fights and racial harassment involving the locals in places like Greenpoint, etc).
how come this thread hasn’t dissolved into race-baiting? whats going on?
I teach in the area… You’re forgetting (or neglecting to mention) the Brevoort Houses (a few blocks away), the projects right next to the deli/west indian place on the corner of malcolm x and fulton, as well as the Smurf projects (on the corner of Utica and Fulton). That might be a nickname the kids give them, I’m not sure. Ok so it may not be considered Stuyvesant Heights but it’s damn close to that area.
One of my student’s best friends was shot and killed on that block a few weeks ago and then the weeks following he spoke about nothing but retaliation from the gang that he was in, all of which took place right there. I have had to reroute my walk a few times due to gun fire from that block.
While I think it gets safer on the blocks just west of Fulton, there are still major problems in the immediate area. Denying that is a disservice to the community itself and puts an even bigger wedge between the people who can afford the million dollar homes in the area and those who are low income residents of the area that are directly impacted by the violence that surrounds it.