House of the Day: 56 Hawthorne Street
This three-story, bay-front house at 56 Hawthorne Street in Prospect Lefferts Gardens looks mighty sweet and priced quite fairly at $999,000. The regular reader who tipped us off to the listing (and lives down the block) writes, “I’ve seen it and it’s gorgeous, though the top floor needs plaster repair and painting.” The only quibble…
This three-story, bay-front house at 56 Hawthorne Street in Prospect Lefferts Gardens looks mighty sweet and priced quite fairly at $999,000. The regular reader who tipped us off to the listing (and lives down the block) writes, “I’ve seen it and it’s gorgeous, though the top floor needs plaster repair and painting.” The only quibble we can imagine people having is that the kitchen appears not to have updated in a while. Looks fine, though. Anyone else seen it?
56 Hawthorne Street [Aguayo & Huebener] GMAP P*Shark
Guess what, 9:09 – I’m going to accuse you of lying yet again. You’re no friend of the buyers – you’re not even the friend of a friend of the buyers.
Constantly using phrases like “You people” and “You all” is incredibly condescending and hostile in tone. It’s not the way to get an apology.
It wasn’t just gossip. It was from friends of the buyers.
And that hardly is the apology I expected for being acussed of lying just because I said people decided not to live in the area–which is true! You all need to take look in the mirror.
One good way to avoid being accused of lying is to qualify what you say. If you have first-hand knowledge, for example, that a house sold below ask (you’re either the buyer, the seller, family/extremely close friend of same, or one of the brokers), then it’s fine to say “It went for under ask.” If you heard it from someone other than the above who claims to know, then it’s probably better to say “I heard it went for under ask” – because you actually have no idea one way or the other, you’re just repeating gossip.
9:47 here again. I just cannot get over the fact that you all jumped to the conclsuion that someone was lying rather than asking for clarification! Fact of the matter is that I do know someone who had an accepted offer on the 2 story on Lincoln that just went into contract and they did pull out because they changed their mind. As for it going under asking, that is what I have heard from more than one source–if it isn’t true, it is misinformation, not some sick plot.
I am 9:47 and I was talking about the 2 story on Lincoln, not the three story that 10:59 was talking about!
You people are so freaking paranoid!!!! Get a grip.
So true, 2:21, that’s what’s hilarious. There certainly ARE things to criticize about PLG! Ha. But these special-agenda PLG critics completely make stuff up. I’ll always be so curious who they are. My theory is they are people (or realtors) in certain historic neighborhoods that are similar in the housing stock, but with transportation options that aren’t as good as PLG’s subway options. And they don’t have the close proximity to the park or Botanic Gardens and zoo. So they fear if PLG improves and gentrifies, it hurts their neighborhoods. But it’s so silly, because ALL improvements in Brooklyn help ALL of Brooklyn. Plus anybody who truly appreciates historic houses should be thrilled when people are buying in any of the historic Brooklyn neighborhoods and restoring the homes there. To me, anybody who makes fun of people like that, are total phonies who only recently starting appreciating old houses. They’re just not the real thing. I love all the old houses of Brooklyn. It’s awesome when anybody moves in there and restores and cares for the houses. Whether they are “prime” or “fringe” neighborhoods, they all rock. It’s sad that so many people here are too snarkey and competitive to feel the same way, and behave like a true community. Depressing. Makes me feel less enthused about Brooklyn overall as a whole.
10:59 here again. I certainly didn’t bail on Lincoln because of the area. I ended up buying elsewhere in PLG. It’s a good neighborhood with far more upside in the long run than many other neighborhoods I was looking in. Great transportation+Park+Historic district, all *permanent* features of the neighborhood, will make it a good bet in the long run. Schools, crime, services, are all things that have been improving for years and will continue to improve. People said these exact things about every single brooklyn neighborhood, and most manhattan ones, all the way back to the Upper West Side.
9:47 is also lying about it going for under ask. It went for the asking price. I think s/he’s just another one of those people with an agenda about the neighborhood. For some reason there seem to be a few people on this site with an axe to grind about PLG, and apparently they see no reason to be bound by the truth.