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
I just checked out 18 Winthrow. IMO the steps and elevated brick porch area IS original, but has been painted on this house and the rest of the row.
Guest 12:17 is correct–some of the apartment bldgs. on this block are co-ops and FWIW all look well maintained.
My Gosh, how do you people know that these places are mostly section 8?
Many of the “apartment” buildings on Wintrop are coops.
It’s summer time, people hang out on the street and play music. On the corner of Flatbush are many eateries so DUH you will see people there. I live on hawthorne between Flatbush and Bedford and I have never had a problem ONCE with anyone, have not been robbed not even noise.
guest at September 4, 2007 9:19 PM
a house was just listed on hawthorne between flatbush and bedford in the 20s…good luck
To all the HATERS, prrdominately Black don’t mean whack… continue paying out your nose for a lil space in Park Slope
guest 9:46 PM,
Unlike you I have many years of experience living in PLG, raised a family there and have been very happy [as regular readers know]. However, I guess I have to defer to YOUR expertise as to what would make a good crack house because that’s what you must have been smoking when you made your assinine comment.
Mr. B asks about the steps and elevated brick porch area. IIRC the row of houses like this one and the similar row on the south side of Parkside do have an elevated porch area. I can’t tell from the picture if this one has been altered. I just returned from a long vacation and didn’t have a chance to look at 18 Winthrop today, but I’ll take a look tomorrow and report back.
I don’t think the house is a dump. It’s actually quite nice. The neighborhood is a dump and I’d never live in PLG myself, but that’s different.
Do any of you have any first hand experience at all with this neighborhood? You’d have to have a death wish to want to live in this place. This place is a dump, but even if it weren’t a dump it sure as heck is worth dying over. It’s weird how common sense disappears as soon as people start thinking about real estate. Many people stop thinking about their families and about those who care for them and instead deceive themselves into believing that an outhouse like this can somehow be turned into a home. Well, it can’t. Maybe it could be a good crack house, but a lot of improvement would be needed even for that.
I really like PLG and am looking for a house there, as well as some other areas. But I agree about not wanting to be that close to Flatbush. I’ve gone by many nights and seen crowds of people hanging out on the corner of Rutland and Fenimore, playing loud music. And while PLG is not a “ghetto,” those apartment buildings are indeed mostly section 8 housing. You can hear the music blasting from apartments and you can see the drug deals happening on the stoop. I am sure that “tomgee” is happy there, and I’m sure others are too. But that is not something I want to live that close to. A block away is OK, or even a good ten houses, but not right next door.
how wrong you are
I actually live there, south of Midwood and very close to Flatbush. I like it fine people…just fine. i think 4th Avenue is alot worse with noise than Flatbush! All that construction and 4 lanes
Now THAT is a Highway
Its also the ghetto w lots and lots of section 8. PLG is only attractive at prices lower then this.
Nice house, but I would not even consider living that close to Flatubush on any PLG block except maybe for Midwood. Certainly not on Rutland or anything south of it. I’ve spent enough time in the area to know that those corners get really, really noisy in the summer. And even without the radio-playing people hanging out all night, who wants to live that close to a major highway? If the house were further down the block…