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]
5:32, you said it yourself: “To each his/her own”. There are people, myself included, who do find this area to be a picture of perfection. It makes me go all fuzzy inside walking around here. It’s not false information. It’s our opinions. Just like Park Slope is perfect for some and boring for others, Stuy Heights is not for everyone. Maybe that’s a good thing.
inflated? what did the poster state that was inflated? the area is flat out gorgeous. go to stuy heights yourself. right now. i challenge you say that the beauty of stuy heights is inflated.
5:32PM, unless, you live on bainbridge and have personally witnessed “gang gunfights” then how can you have the audacity to say that the poster at 4:24PM is misrepresenting his or her neighborhood. the poster lives in the immediate area and disputes the accusation that the area is dangerous and full of “gang gunfights”. i know the area of stuy heights quite well and it’s not perfect but is as safe as the best parts of fort greene, clinton hill or prospect heights. that my friend is not misinformation, it’s a fact.
“i don’t like the idea of a tiny little enclave of nice surrounded by (as we saw in an earlier article) high crime area with some of the most horrific projects in the u.s. less than a mile away.”
i’m sorry but you just wiped out 95% of all of brownstone brooklyn which has some of the most notorious housing projects in the city interwoven throughout its various neighborhoods, e.g., carroll gardens and boerum hill (wykoff and gownus houses), dumbo and vinegar hill (farragut houses), fort greene (ingersol and whitman houses, clinton hill (lafayette houses), bed-stuy (marcy and tomkins), and plg (ebbet).
http://www.nypost.com/seven/06182007/news/regionalnews/nyc_debt_reckoning_regionalnews_bill_sanderson.htm
Link to the subprime article in the New York post today.
i don’t like unfair disparaging remarks about a neighborhood as much as i don’t like inflated remarks about a neighborhood like the last few.
stuyvesant heights is gorgeous, the homes are beautiful, but it’s certainly not for everyone. i don’t like the idea of a tiny little enclave of nice surrounded by (as we saw in an earlier article) high crime area with some of the most horrific projects in the u.s. less than a mile away.
to each his/her own, but please don’t give out false information in either case. making this section of brooklyn sound like the picture of perfection is doing as much of a disservice as those trashing it.
I agree with the earlier posters about this part of Bed-Stuy. This is an excellent part of Brooklyn to own a townhouse. The community is active in keeping this area stable and well-maintained. The person who posted something about gun fights is simply repeating the negative attitude so common when speaking about Bed-Stuy without regard for particular areas.
About the SubPrime market meltdown mmentioned by the first poster, I am a bit confused. I thought I just read in the newspapers last week that New York City, including Brooklyn, has seen a dramatic DROP in the number of forclosures this past quarter. New York City is in fact bucking the trend of subprime forclosures that much of the nation is experiencing. As I posted on this forum a couple of months ago: the subprime market will be bouyed by the strong underlying property values in New York city, the continued demand for housing and the switch over to 30-40 year fixed mortgages. It’s really not that hard to switch from a sub-prime mortgage to a fixed mortgage and pay nothing out of pocket. expecially when housing prices have sustained their value or even increased as many areas of Brooklyn have. Let’s tone down the sub-prime hysteria and talk facts please. New York City is not Kansas. And before some goof off tells me I’m lying please google the statistics.
Is it true? 393 Stuyvesant for 800K? I’m so upset I just sank my money into a two family on Lewis and Bainbridge that is no where near as beautiful as any house on Stuyvesant Ave. Someone snatch this up quick!!!
Ditto to all the people who say Stuy Heights is one of the best communities in Brooklyn. The walk from the A train up Stuyvesant Ave at night really does look like a movie with the lanterns, potted flowers and picturesque brownstones. As for the crime in the area, I can say I’ve never heard any gun shots and as a 29 year old woman I always feel safe walking home (and proud that there are minority communities within Bed Stuy that take such care of their blocks!)
Clinton Hill, not “Hills”, and what’s with capitalizing certain words like “Values”, “Details, “Brownstones”, “Architectural”?
Thanks 4:02. I wish I was still in the market.
I agree with you sterling:
There are a lot of old Families with great Values in this community that are good people. Not to mention they live in real Architectural gems. Stuyvesant heights Brownstones and limestone are cut much beter then some of the ones in Clinton Hills and Fort Greene. Much better wood work and Details. The secrets been out, some people are always looking for negative things to say.