House of the Day: 9 Lefferts Place
This charmer at 9 Lefferts Place in Clinton Hill is new to market. (In fact we heard that some neighbors already put bids in at the first open house this weekend.) The four-story, three-family brick house has only had a few owners and has a lot of original detail still intact. It’s one of six…
This charmer at 9 Lefferts Place in Clinton Hill is new to market. (In fact we heard that some neighbors already put bids in at the first open house this weekend.) The four-story, three-family brick house has only had a few owners and has a lot of original detail still intact. It’s one of six 22.5-foot-wide houses in a row built by developer William Alexander in the early 1860s. The Craigslist ad describes a “cook’s kitchen” and a landscaped garden but neglects to include any photos. If everything’s in decent shape, the asking price of $1,470,000 seems quite reasonable given the details and generous size (about 4,000 square feet). Thoughts?
9 Lefferts Place [Craigslist] GMAP P*Shark
if you actually read my comment you would see that it says that each neighborhood has wonderful cultural and ethnic experiences to offer. Do I need to explain to you what cultural and ethnic experiences are? There are actually lots of interesting places all over Brooklyn and just because you don’t know about them does not mean that they don’t exist. I know you would like to believe that Clinton Hill is the bomb, but the truth is that it still has a long way to go. BTW, I don’t live in Carroll Gardens, but I do think that Carroll Gardens is a great neighborhood that has lots of wonderful things to offer that go far beyond Smith Street.
Yeah, this house looks exactly like the many Federal brick townhouses found in Carroll Gardens at 35% less cost. Anyone with a house on the market in CG knows that this house in CH sells before theirs. No wonder why the CG poster is so pissed.
“I think that brownstoner should organize some tours of the neighborhoods just to get these people out of their own area for a change.”
Excellent idea “7:14AM”!
Mr. B.–if you want to do this, I’d be happy to lead a walking tour of my neighborhood (PLG). Any other volunteers?
I think that neighborhoods east of Flatbush Ave. are diverse now only because they are in transition. Over the next 20-30 years, as more rich white people continue to buy buildings, co-ops and condos, PH, CH, FG, BS, etc. will become more homogeneous. This is already happening in the western parts of FG and PH.
As a person who lives on Lefferts Place I feel like Fort Greene and it’s amenities are miles away. This can be good and bad, depending on when you wanna eat or when you need some good weed. The restuarants here take at least 45 minutes to put out a main course, and Met Foods is really over priced and the ceiling has leaked over the meat area twice in the past month when the rains were here. To me, this is disgusting and I no longer purchase food there. Hit that whole foods before you go underground and wait 45 minutes for the next C train because there will be at least 4 A trains in between. Oh, and the house at 65 Lefferts is actually 22×47, not 45. It is listed incorrectly on the paperwork, I know I measued it.
Carroll Gardens is not wanted here.
I think that brownstoner should organize some tours of the neighborhoods just to get these people out of their own area for a change. Clinton Hill really IS seen as an extension of FG in terms of so many things. If you are sitting at home in Carroll Gardens of course that is something you wouldn’t realize. Although I suspect the Carroll Gardens obsessed poster really is just baiting us all to talk about the topic of race. Give me a break. If you want demographic information go check out the census stats or something and then post something useful. Your own thoughts on the subjects are totally uninformative.
I’m sorry but the brownstone nabes west of Flatbush (BH, PS, CG, CoH, BoH) are not racially diverse. For the most part, they are homogeneous and monolithic nabes – white, white, white. Reminds me of college and most recently of Corporate America; throw in a couple of brown faces (though it’s still 95% white) and that’s called diversity (from a white person’s perspective of course). Compare this to Fort Greene and Clinton Hill which is truly diverse. I would say it’s close to 50/50 in 2007.
As for all the Clinton Hill bashers out there, you are so misguided. Brownstoner discusses neighborhoods all over Brooklyn – from Gravesend to Greenpoint and from Brooklyn Heights to Williamsburg. I don’t think that there is a neighborhood close to downtown Brookyn that Mr. B has not covered countless times on this board.
Also, I don’t understand why some people would have issues with Stoner’s coverage of Clinton Hill. It’s his blog and he lives there which makes him more on top of what’s happening in the community. More importantly, Clinton Hill is often discussed because it’s a very interesting place; I would argue far more interesting than Carroll Gardens. Clinton Hill is far more diverse and its housing stock is far superior. CG is nice but the only thing it has over CH is Smith Street. Let’s be honest here, there are few stretches in all of Brooklyn that is more magnificent then the mansion rows of Clinton and Washington Aves.
I agree that the Carroll Gardens whiner should go away, but I also think that it is amusing that you should call him/her insecure when people who live in Clinton Hill….
Post the same comment about it being a racially diverse neighborhood ad nauseam
Call Clinton Hill, Clinton Hill/Forte Green in the hopes that some poor unsuspecting reader might actually think that it is the same neighborhood and and pay FG prices.
Place these comments in threads that have nothing to do with Clinton Hill because they are clearly peaved that brownstoner ever posts anything that is not in Clinton Hill.
Get over yourselves. It is great that Clinton Hill is becoming a more racially diverse neighborhood but there are actually quite a few racially diverse neighborhoods all over this city and the metropolitan area. In fact, Brooklyn in general is filled with boat loads of racial and ethnic diversity. Each neighborhood explored in this blog has wonderful cultural and ethnic experiences to offer.
So who are really the defensive ones who can’t stop telling everyone how wonderful and important their neighborhood is?
You live in a nice neighborhood like lots of the other neighborhoods in brooklyn