House of the Day: 272 Halsey Revisited
On the heels of several price cuts on Bed Stuy townhouses last week comes news that 272 Halsey, which we featured back in June when it was on the market for $1,175,000, has had its asking price reduced to the oddly specific number of $1,097,450. Although this is a cute house, it needs some work…
On the heels of several price cuts on Bed Stuy townhouses last week comes news that 272 Halsey, which we featured back in June when it was on the market for $1,175,000, has had its asking price reduced to the oddly specific number of $1,097,450. Although this is a cute house, it needs some work and was overpriced to begin with so there’s not a whole lot to read into here. Our guess is that it’ll have to come down at least 10 percent more before finding a buyer.
272 Halsey Street [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
House of the Day: 272 Halsey Street [Brownstoner]
Price Cuts at Bed Stuy Townhouses: Is This a Trend? [Brownstoner]
Don’t forget to check out the first ever Crown Heights North house tour. October 6th, starts at noon from St. Gregory’s RC Church on St. Johns Place and Brookyn Avenue. It’s going to really rock. We’ve got 8 houses and two churches on the tour. Don’t miss out!
You could get off at Kingston on the A line or C instead of Nostrand and walk down Throop Ave.And it is Tompkins not Thompson. There is crime in Bklyn Hgts, Carroll Garden and Park Slope as well.This day and age, crime is rampant everywhere,from the prime neighborhoods, suburbs and not so prime neighborhoods.So making a statement like, bring your nine or whatever applies to anywhere you live .The dad who went for a carton of milk in BayRidge one night and was senselessly robbed and killed is a good example.Crime is everywhere.Occurs at anytime.Dont think that living in a toney neighborhood makes a difference. Can’t get an idea of crime statistics from the pct. They are controlled by NYPD to make it appear like they are doing their job. Wake up and smell the crime.It is all over.Moving to Bedstuy is no different than moving to Park Slope in this day and age as far as crime is concerned. Scan the neighborhood news and you will see.
I don’t need to tell everyone how great Park Slope is, because everyone already knows.
Posted by: guest at September 13, 2007 12:46 PM
How great was it 15 years ago? or 7 years ago when people didn’t want south of 9th or west of 4th? Stay tuned 12:46 and lets see how smart you look in 2020 a lifetime from now for you. I am glad I was able to get houses for my family in Bed Stuy for 100k a piece and under in the past ten years and regret not getting one on my block for 550k 1.5 years ago since 371 Hancock on the same block sold for 935k 11 months ago according to this blog; I also regret advising my mother against buying a house on Decatur between Lewis and Stuyvesant for 500k 5 years ago and now they are got 1.2million around the corner on Bainbridge for a lesser house. Don’t come to the house tour this year come to our 30th annual next year when we unveil shit like you’ve never seen, or do you have saunas in your basement and hot tubs on your roof decks. Get out more!
I went to the Bedford Stuyvesant house tour 4 years ago and I hated it the homes did not impress me the tour guide was giving out wrong information, I just thought it was horrible. Well two years later I went back and it did a complete 180 and to date it is the best Brownstone House tour I have been to. As a architect so hard to impress like most architects. I went to the Park Slope tour a few months later and was not impressed at all. One or two nice homes but very boring nothing that had the wow factor.
What I notice about the Bedford Stuyvesant tour was it was young home owners that had many fresh ideas and could afford to put these ideas in there home because the mortgage was not crazy. I am really looking forward to the next Bedford Stuyvesant house tour. I missed last year but God welling I will be there this year.
There is no other neighborhood that elicits such boosting and defensive comments than those in Bed Stuy.
For that reason alone, I think it says a ton.
I don’t need to tell everyone how great Park Slope is, because everyone already knows.
If you think Bed Stuy will have 3 million dollar brownstones in 10 years, you are sadly mistaken.
I personally know someone who paid 30k and still owns a house on So. Elliot where a house sold for 3.7 million. You are new to Fort Greene. The 16 unit building next to Tech was on the market a few years ago for 1.2 million and nobody got it, lucky for the owner – he still has it.
When is the Bed-Stuy house tour?
I am the Bed Stuy guy and after looking at the pics I could live with 999k; perhaps the naysayers should come to the upcoming house tour and the 10k race or the street fair on Lewis ave in Stuyvesant Heights this weekend so they can make more informed comments. Restoration is also having a Rock Concert this Sat. Sept. 15th starting at noon with 7 bands.
Bed Stuy and Ft. Greene are not the same entity.
People associate Bed Stuy with Harlem and South Central LA because at one time those were three of the worst neighborhoods in the U.S.
You know not of what you speak, Ft Greene had one of the worst reputations in the city, it even had the only murder in the blackout of 1977. Ft Greene and Clinton Hill were always in the same boat as Bed Stuy, and Bed Stuy even retained more quality blocks during the lean years than its now more matured sisters.
The brownstones of Park slope and Brooklyn Heights are adorned with many stolen artifacts from their neighbors to the east.