House of the Day: 18 Winthrop Street
Today’s house at 18 Winthrop Street isn’t the most stunning house in Prospect Lefferts Gardens but it’s no slouch either. The 1905 one-family brick house has a pleasing symmetry to it but the steps and elevated brick porch area look a little odd to us. Anyone know if they are original? The one interior provided…
Today’s house at 18 Winthrop Street isn’t the most stunning house in Prospect Lefferts Gardens but it’s no slouch either. The 1905 one-family brick house has a pleasing symmetry to it but the steps and elevated brick porch area look a little odd to us. Anyone know if they are original? The one interior provided in the listing shows off some swanky parquet floors and gorgeous stairway. The house has the added benefit of sitting on a 132-foot-deep lot. The nicest houses in this area are now in the $1.3 to $1.5 million range so the $849,000 asking price on this place may be a nice way in for those on slightly lesser budgets.
18 Winthrop Street [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP P*Shark
The same exact brick 1 family house sold on parkside last month for around 800k with a smaller backyard. Yes the floors in two bedrooms need sanding/polyeurethene and the new owner will have the opportunity to put in kitchen cabinets and appliances of their choosing in a large kitchen space that has ceramic tile floors and leads out to a lovely deck and huge yard or into a characterful dining room with original beamed ceilings and built in china cabinets. The english basement has 2 windows in the original bedroom/small bathroom which were meant for the house servant. The house is 100 years old: all the walls/floors are straight and the architectural details and integrity have withstood the test of time with the exception of 2 original stained glass windows that few of these brick houses on Winthrop and Parkside still have in the upstairs skylights. The house has a big storage room under the “odd looking elevated” porch (originaly the coal storage room), much more storage than most huge brownstones/limestones.
The neighborhood is the park, that’s what you buy the house for: 1 block to the subway, 1 block to prospect park at the skating rink, short walks to many major cultural institutions including the Brooklyn museum, the botanical gardens, the Audobon center, the Zoo, the state of the art tennis/ball courts on Parkside and some of the most interesting childrens’ play areas in prospect park (including imagination park). A short train ride to Coney Island and the aquarium. A lot of stores where you can buy lovely fresh fruits and vegetables/newspapers, a pharmacy, a supermarket, 2 local hardware stores, more carribean food delights than may seem necessary, but all yummy! All withing walking distance. A family smorgasborg of good living!
There were crack houses on the block about
10-15 years ago when most of “brownstone” Brooklyn was wrestling with this issue. Today you will find a group of cohesive homeowners, a neihborhood economic institution with a wonderful art gallery on it’s top floor (CAMBA), and a mix of apartment renters/owners who look out for one another and eachothers’ children and speak to one another daily.
the most dangerous and noisy thing about plg is the swarms of eight and nine-year-olds on bicycles —> many of them are cannibals and carry automatic weapons and pee where they are not supposed to
the most dangerous and noisy thing about plg is the swarms of eight and nine-year-olds on bicycles —> many of them are cannibals and carry automatic weapons and pee where they are not supposed to
Saw the house. IMO it’s overpriced by 200k. Water-stained parquet floors upstairs needed work badly, kitchen was an outdated wreck, english basement had no windows at all, just front and back doors. BHS really aggressively prices places in this neighborhood: the good ones sell at ask, true, but the crappy ones sit forever, and they did very little to make the place seem worth it. While a mint 2 story with english basement in the manor proper might be worth in the 900s, there’s no justification for asking this much for a place that needs so much work.
Wait one tutting moment, I happen to pass this house while people were standing outside, it’s owned by WHITE people, well certainly at least 4 WHITE people were outside there, one in the doorway in “house” clothes hmmm
So Mr. Brownstone man, do you only promote “White” people’s homes?
Maria
I have lived three stoops away from 18 Winthrop Street for 20 years. Long before there were any “brownstoner” blogs to tell me about a neighborhood.
I have raised two children and had a very happy life on this block many of you are too scared to visit.
I have a huge back yard that most people in Park Slope only dream about. And a mortgage that is affordable.
I hope you stay out of my neighborhood, we are very happy in our dump without you.
What I don’t understand is why boggers feel they can be so rude about different lifestyles, is it because they are anonymous?
It’s amazing how so many people still have black=drugs and poor=dangerous mentalities. I’m a single woman and I have never felt in threatened or uncomfortable in PLG. I think those who do need to look inside themselves for the source instead of pointing at other people’s skin color or bank balances.
OTOH I’m glad these people are too scared to live in PLG. It’ll help keep the prices down for the good folks.
guest at September 5, 2007 1:43 PM
I guess Section 8 folks should be quarantined lest they infest uppity folks like you.
I was refering to the apartment buildings on Flatbush south of Maple, all of which have many section 8 tenants (you can look that up, you know). This house is just a few in from a building with lots of section 8 tennants. As for the “eateries” on Flatbush–that was funny. Look, you can be happy there, that is great. But I do not want to live that close to drug deals and constant noise. As I said, I very much like PLG, so calling me a “hater” is plain dumb.