House of the Day: 1306 Albemarle Road
One word: Droolworthy! This house at 1306 Albemarle Road in Prospect Park South is the perfect poster-child for Victorian Flatbush. The 15-room mansion last changed hands twelve years ago; the previous owner lived there for decades. This place has it all: original woodwork, flooring, Tiffany windows, columns, etc. There’s even a five-room office with a…
One word: Droolworthy! This house at 1306 Albemarle Road in Prospect Park South is the perfect poster-child for Victorian Flatbush. The 15-room mansion last changed hands twelve years ago; the previous owner lived there for decades. This place has it all: original woodwork, flooring, Tiffany windows, columns, etc. There’s even a five-room office with a separate entrance. Enough talking—just check out the photos. The asking price of $2,595,000 is up there but seems perfectly achievable to us given the infrequency that something like this becomes available. Agree?
1306 Albemarle Road [Mary Kay Gallagher] GMAP P*Shark
yes, i love westchester so much i spend my days on brownstoner.com telling people how much i love the suburbs.
interesting…
if you have to write a sales pitch for the place, you probably don’t love it quite as much as you say you do.
your comment sounds like a real estate ad.
btw, you may think you are doing your kids a service, but do a poll of kids raised in the burbs and ask them how much they loathed it.
i think you’ll be overwhelmed with the response.
i was raised in an upscale one, and would never subject a child to that sortof life. it’s narrow, it’s suffocating and it’s empty.
These are good points for living in Brooklyn, but we’ve just decided to move to northern westchester. Many of my friends and colleagues (in media!) live in the Croton area and just love it. There is more than enough to do there, more than enough restaurants, theaters, music etc, and the city is still close. Getting more space is part of the appeal, but honestly it’s the total lifestyle that sold me. I want my kids to have lots of outdoor space and to be able to take hikes in the woods, swim in the lake, and experience nature on a regular basis. I want them to go the local public school with all of their neighbors. We’ve spent lots of time up there and I’ve been amazed at the number of ex-Brooklynites living there, the cultural amenities, and the natural beauty. For me it is the best of all worlds. The trip back and forth with the kids never feels difficult at all–the train ride is very plasant (and beautiful) and the car ride is just 40 minutes. Personally I find it much easier than taking them into Manhattan now on the subway. But I’m sure I’ll miss parts of Brooklyn having been born and raised here. Sorry, I know this is a Brooklyn site and I know that you’ll be offended, but I couldn’t resist.
http://www.doughnutplant.com/
I know I’m going to get a licking for this, but what’s the Donut Plant? And where is it?
I love that someone thinks that those in media in and design are the only ones buying 2.5 and 3 million dollar brownstones in Park Slope.
You need to get out more.
Either that or I need to become a graphic designer.
I like the space that living in a suburban neighborhood can offer but that’s where my love for the suburbs ends. Like previous posters noted, I too did not want the ordeal of treking into the city on the weekend with my kids in order to expose them to “culture”. Beverley Square West was the right fit for me. This Victorian Flatbush neighborhood appealed to me because I have lots of indoor and outdoor space including a driveway. My kids attended a private school and would have no matter where we lived, but the local schools are now improving steadily. Sure we don’t have the amenities of Park Slope but we are not far from Manhattan or any of the other downtown Brooklyn hot spots. Since I spend more time in my home than at the “amenities”, I went for the larger home.
Guest at 6:47 has a good point. Spontaneous proximity to Manhattan was one of the reasons my husband and I decided to stay in Brooklyn (despite having four children). Living in the suburbs seems somehow limiting. “Visiting” the city, especially with kids, always feels like some elaborate ordeal. We wanted our family to be part of the city, and to regularly enjoy and learn from all it has to offer.
I always lived below 23rd street before making the leap to Brooklyn, and the Q gets me to my old haunts in less than half an hours. And you can’t beat the 15 minute, traffic free drive to the Donut Plant on Sunday mornings.
I live in PPS and drive in with my wife to Tribeca for dinner once a week…I’m there in 12 min. Let me repeat 12 MIN and parking is easy in tribeca since there are no one parks overnight. My commute to downtown is also 18 min on the express bus from church down the prospect exp and through the battery tunnel. That’s faster than park slope or the east village was for us. Darien is 1.5 hours door to door. No thanks. Of course is downtown…midtown is a different story but no more than 40min…shorter than I remember the upper east side to downtown was.
Since Prospect Park South was explicitly developed and marketed at the turn of the century as a bucolic suburban alternative for well-heeled businessmen wanting to move out of congested areas like Manhattan and raise families, the whole “who’s leaving Manhattan” debate is pretty funny.