House of the Day: 49 Rutland Road
This place sure is purdy.
This place sure is purdy. According to the listing, the four-story brick and limestone house at 49 Rutland Road in Prospect Lefferts Gardens is one of five houses in a row designed by the architect John J. Petit in 1897. The interior of the 3,500-square-foot house is full of original details—pier mirrors, wood mantels, and ribbon pattern parquet floors—but has obviously had some modern updating in the right places. All good. And what about the asking price of $1,450,000? Think it’ll fly? There’s a pair of open houses this weekend for the curious.
49 Rutland Road [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP P*Shark
Its funny,,,
I post a comment and note that I’m a broker… my post gets deleted.
Some idiot makes racial comments, and they stay…
WHAYS wrong here Mr. B??
Howard
We moved to Lefferts from PS, as well. We are sooo happy to be in our own home instead of a coop. Half the kids in my child’s grade have moved over here, so we do not feel isolated in any way. It’s a great neighborhoody type place. I shop at Fairway, as does everybody I know in Park Slope.
plger and 12:09 are BOTH “right.” As much as i love PLG, it’s obvious that no one area is right for everyone.
“Y’ pays yr money and y’ takes yr cherce.” OR YRMV 🙂
But, if anyone IS curious about the nabe, this open house WOULD be a good one to attend.
A friend moved there from PS – bought a big house after selling her coop which was feeling small for her growing family. While she likes her house a lot, she is bummed about being so far from the amenities of PS and feeling like she has to drive everywhere. We have a nice PS apt and are house-hunting and wonder about moving there, but I do worry that we’ll feel isolated with our kids, and even if does eventually change and become more populated with restaurants, shops, cafes, decent schools, etc. it might take a long time and do I really want to subject my young kids to that time when I’ll probably be unhappy? I think I’d rather to move to other “fringe” areas i.e. Gowanus, edges of Boerum Hill (wycoff area), Windsor Terrace, etc. But maybe I’m wrong? We did recently look at a house in PLG just to see, and the house was indeed beautiful but I found the block totally depressing, as was the surrounding area (Flatbush around there is not so great).
I moved to PLG from PS. There are obviously not as many shops/restaurants her in PLG. However, I now own my own home and that is a fabulous thing. Due to the difficulty of finding parking spaces, I walk all over PLG and LM at all hours and I have never had a problem. The HOTD looks gorgeous and I’m sure that someone is going to be delighted to have it. Some of us would just really rather have our own building than continue to live in apartment-style co-ops/condos. I’m really happy to be in a neighborhood where you can still buy a house for under a million(not this house, of course, but there still are some.) I enjoyed my 10 years in PS too–it really is possible to like both neighborhoods.
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I know this block well. I don’t live in the area, but I visit friends there regularly. I agree that the block is pretty quiet once you get away from Flatbush, but I have definitely seen large groups hanging out on that corner, playing loud music from parked cars and apartments in the building. It seems to be a summer/spring thing–people stay inside in the cold. I wouldn’t want to live too close to the corner. As for walking by it, the groups have made me uptight, and I admit that I find it unpleasant, but I’ve never felt threatened or in any danger.
THANK YOU, 9:08!
That is exactly the point, and it’s exactly whey I would rather have a smaller space in a neighborhood in which there is not an added stress about safety, however small.
Life in New York City is stressful enough as it is. If I’m gonna drop a small (or large) fortune, I sure as hell don’t want to feel uncomfortable or worry about the area being unsafe.
Kids pick up on that stuff too.
Secondly, people don’t need as much space as they think they do. No one NEEDS 3000 sf unless they have 4 or 5 kids. It’s wasteful and overindulgent. If you really want to give your kids a good life, get a smaller place in a neighborhood like Park Slope, where they can play in the streets, walk to the park with friends and walk around as they get older hanging out with others their age in the neighborhood. You know…LIVE.
That’s the only thing that’s good about the suburbs if you ask me…the relative safety factor so that people can raise their families in relative bliss (oftentimes too much so in my opinion, but that’s another story). In your quest for, in many cases money (let’s face it…most of you are only in Crown Heights with the thought in mind that someday you might have a payday on that brownstones) you are depriving your kids of a childhood where safety is no concern.
I think it kinda sucks to have to worry about certain blocks not being safe, others more so, etc., when you spend $1.5 million dollars, no?