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
Mmm, nice try 7:45, but I believe I said “block and AREA” meaning I wasn’t just talking about one single block.
And no actually, we seldom go walking 20 blocks away into the heart of Crown Heights, so yep, the stats there don’t apply.
(No bash on Crown Heights intended; it’s just the farthest we walk into Crown Heights is the post office on Empire.)
Oh please, relax 7:40. Sure, it’s great to know what happens on your block, but the statistics reflect the blocks around you and the neighborhood in general. Do you never leave your block? Give me a break.
I use that corner of Rutland every evening as I come home. I’ve never been impressed by any additional noise there. The whole block seems pretty quiet to me. Even Flatbush isn’t very noisy.
The police WILL tell you the crime stats for the exact block and area you are considering, people. Hello, buying a house is a big deal, it’s worth one phone call to learn this information. Anybody who gets all they need to know from doing a google search deserves to rent forever.
As for comparing to Park Slope…..why? The difference between paying $3-4 million and $1-2 million is huge. It’s not even the same buyer. If you want a 1200 square foot condo for $1.5 million in Park Slope like at the Vermeil, go ahead and buy it. But no need to get all down on the people who prefer to own a house for that money. Just make your choice and live with it.
I agree it is a great house and I like the neighborhood. But, I was warned by friends who live on the block that the Rutland/Flatbush corners have a serious problem with people hanging out all night in nice weather and making incredible amounts of noise. The buildings at the corner are section 8 housing and, I’m told, generate a lot of nosie. My friends say they always detour to Maple to avoid the corners. The block association has evidently worked hard to solve this problem, and the police occasionally respond to calls, but the problem never really changes. This house is far enough from Flatbush to not hear the noise, but it does give me pause. Call me a wuss, but I’d rather not have to walk by that all the time. This may not be an issue for others.
Nice nabe, great block, fabulous house.
The rest is just noise from people with time on their hands to rehash the same stuff week after week.
Yes, Bob Marvin, I agree. The statistics are generally more representative of certain high crime sub-pockets within neighborhoods. The most recent Ft. Greene police blotter in the Brooklyn Paper was really frightening, for example.
And for comparison, these are the stats for the 88th Precinct, which covers Ft. Greene, Clinton Hill–Year to Date. Pretty even with the 71st Precinct (Crown Heights) on the murders, and has more grand larcenies.
8 MURDERS
9 RAPES
185 ROBBERIES
146 FEL. ASSAULTS
128 BURGLARIES
396 GR. LARCENIES
106 G.L.A
http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/downloads/pdf/crime_statistics/cs088pct.pdf
The trouble is that the 71st Pct covers relatively high crime areas going nearly as far east as Utica Avenue as well as Crown Heights South. I don’t know of any stats for PLG as a whole, or for Lefferts Manor as a sub-section of PLG.