House of the Day: 381 Bainbridge Street
While measuring in at a modest 2,322 square feet, the three-story house at 381 Bainbridge Street in Bed Stuy looks like a nice option for a young family looking to have their own place. For the same price as a one-bedroom at 189 Bridge Street, you get three bedrooms, an eat-in kitchen and a yard,…
While measuring in at a modest 2,322 square feet, the three-story house at 381 Bainbridge Street in Bed Stuy looks like a nice option for a young family looking to have their own place. For the same price as a one-bedroom at 189 Bridge Street, you get three bedrooms, an eat-in kitchen and a yard, along with lots of beautiful old woodwork. (Our only quibble with this place is the exposed brick, but that’s remedied easily enough.) For $659,000, this place is in surprisingly good shape, having been recently renovated. Think it’ll fly?
381 Bainbridge Street [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
Boring.
5:30: “Plaque” is what you get on your teeth. You meant “plagued.” And why do you expect to find “Deals” in predominantly minority areas just because most of the residents aren’t the same color as you are? That’s not openminded – it’s racist. Half your problem with “predominantly black neighborhoods plagued with crime” is your perception. Everyone who owns a house in the better areas of Crown Heights and Bed Stuy knows what they’re selling for these days. And folks of all colors, including whites, were buying in Bed Stuy and Clinton Hill and Crown Heights twenty years ago, because they WERE openminded and liked the space and the neighborhoods. Those were the trailblazers…you’re too late for the game. And plenty of people who aren’t your color are also buying those houses you don’t consider “deals” TODAY, and living in them quite comfortably. Contrary to what you might think, not every person of color is a pauper or an idiot.
http://www.shopbedstuy.com is a ray of hope into the commercial growth in Bedford Stuyvesant.
To 5:30,
You have the choice of doing the same thing black people have been doing for years when moving into an openly hositle white neighborhood which is either move into Bed-Stuy and live your life or move somewhere else.
YOU ARE SO FULL OF CRAP 5:30 AND DONALD YOU ARE NOT LOOKING IN ANY OF THESE AREAS… US WHITES IN BS DON’T WANT ANY CLOSED MINDED PEOPLE LIKE YOU HERE…. YOU SOUND LIKE A REAL DONKEY….
As one-half of a white couple looking to buy a home in Brooklyn, we have visited Bed Sty and Crown Heights hoping to get a deal of a lifetime. Granted some streets are better than others and on some townhouse blocks the houses are beautiful from the outside…Deals…NO!!! Unless, we went out into the marginal areas of the neighborhood…I’m open minded to live there and be a trailblazer…but are the gang members? or individuals carrying guns and down on their luck because the economy sucks.
Tell me where does a white couple draw the boundry when looking in a predominately black neighborhood plaqued with crime?
one family houses in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn $625…come snap them up!
The thing is, at this point almost every house in Brooklyn is $650K regardless of renovation or location. By those standards, this seems like a good deal to me.
@4:39 PM Breevoort houses is pretty far from Stuy Heights…..
You people have never walked through B-Sty to appreciate that it is big enough to have it’s sections..you just assume that well since it is Bed-Stuy that you will see scantly clad women and gun shots…I am assuming that your close minded and yes white….
You see it serves no interest making dumb comments because you will never attempt to live here and I would never want you to, a white person that takes the chance to live here is open minded and you are absolutely no that….shame