House of the Day: 119 Bainbridge Street
Based purely on anecdotal evidence, it seems like houses in Bed Stuy—even the best ones—are having the most trouble in the post-subprime world. Take 119 Bainbridge Street, for example. The four-story, 4,132-square-foot house is a beauty and is on one of the nicest streets in Bed Stuy. Back in September, the house was listed for…
Based purely on anecdotal evidence, it seems like houses in Bed Stuy—even the best ones—are having the most trouble in the post-subprime world. Take 119 Bainbridge Street, for example. The four-story, 4,132-square-foot house is a beauty and is on one of the nicest streets in Bed Stuy. Back in September, the house was listed for $1,300,000. Now, the asking price has dropped to $1,000,000. Clearly the lack of buyers is about the overall market and the neighborhood more than a statement about the house, which has rocking woodwork. What’s the market-clearing price on this one?
119 Bainbridge Street [Brooklyn Properties] GMAP
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Love the house and the woodwork, but would be tempted to sell off the cracked cherubs (I know, heresy…and I LIKE historic detail…but not that one…)
Do I have to be the first to acknowledge the kissing white cherubs? That’s funny.
Ordinarily I would agree with you, 6:41, about lobbing around the word racist. But the Greenpoint Booster in question said this:
as a white person who has lived in a predominantly black neighborhood in the past, i can state that it, um, sucks. most of the people were threatening, mean, disruptive and horrible neighbors. i would never ever live in a poor black neighborhood again. i was a renter then, so I didn’t care that much, but i would not buy in an area where i had to be part of a community that may hate my guts because of the color of my skin.
sure that i am not alone in this.
expect to see williamsburg and greenpoint charge ahead because of the fact that they have no projects, no ghetto people and that the hispanics in south williamsburg are getting pushed out.
black hoods can gentrify to some degree, but not as quickly as white neighborhoods regardless of housing stock (although Greenpoint does have some nice old houses).
And in this comment I get the following ideas loud and clear:
1. Black people are threatening, mean, horrible neighbors.
2. Greenpoint and Williamsburg are gentrifying quickly because they do not have any black people.
3. And for that matter, their brown people are leaving in droves.
That sounds genuinely racist to me.
Bed-stuy always gets over a 100 post… Hmmmmm whats with that.. I thought no one wants to live there…
Greenpoint does have drunks its true. I’d rather have drunks than gunplay and schools with metal detectors.
Your mindless charge of racism is misguided though. Its the wasteful overuse of the charge of “racism” without thinking that has taken the edge off being accused of it. Its being devalued to the point of nothingness.
The Greenpoint Psycho is merely rationalizing the fact that she let her own racism lead her to a very expensive, tiny-treed, aluminum clad toxic waste dump of a neighborhood where you still have to step over just as many drunks on the way to the (inferior G) train.
Let her cling to the fact that at least the drunks pissing in Greenpoint’s streets are white! We all know that the Greenpoint Psycho is just jealous–who doesn’t want to live in a beautiful house on a beautiful friendly street for a lot less money?
5.53 – you need to look at the reports again, only part of the score is based on improvement and ps34 already had some of the highest test scores in the boro. Keep your knee-jerk defense under control.
I think Greenpoint is used as a comparison because its a largely homogenous white low-income neigborhood.
6.06 – theres nothing like Kent Street in SI.
The Greenpoint psycho comes on these threads often with her ignorant babbling.
Pay it no attention.
Greenpoint is for losers.
(Kidding, but it would make a great tshirt).
Although I’d never live there. If I wanted a home clad in alumnium, I’d move to Staten Island.
Or Scranton.