House of the Day: 78 Halsey Street
As long as it doesn’t turn out to be an SRO with no interior architectural detail, the listing for 78 Halsey Street looks looks interesting if it could be picked up at a slight discount to the $799,000 asking price. The four-story brick and stone house has lost a stoop and looks worse for the…
As long as it doesn’t turn out to be an SRO with no interior architectural detail, the listing for 78 Halsey Street looks looks interesting if it could be picked up at a slight discount to the $799,000 asking price. The four-story brick and stone house has lost a stoop and looks worse for the wear but it’s a beautiful structure very conveniently located a block from the Nostrand A train. The New York Times listing says it’s an eight-family house; Property Shark says six. Either way, there are at least three tenants still in place, not great news for someone who wants to buy and condo the building. Anyone know what the deal is with the interior and the tenants?
87 Halsey Street [NYC Group] GMAP P*Shark
I just don’t understand why people move to these neighborhoods or nearby if they hate the people that live in them and insist on being afraid in their neighborhoods and demonize the people that live in them. Why live in NY? Go to Kansas or Idaho if you don’t want to be in a city. Or move to the Upper East Side. So bizarre.
Just want to verify that this is on one of the best blocks in Bed-Stuy.
I would factor buying the tenants out into any equation for this property.
Love the non responses to the hateful comments. Indifference is the best way to counter that type of ignorance.
Thanks for the link, 4:42. Renovating on the Cheap is an attractive, informative site that illustrates Bedford Stuyvesant’s residents’ passion for their houses and neighborhood. A nice antidote to the naysayers on Brownstoner. The site also has a good crit of many of the comments about the Halsey Street house found above.
I’ll return to ROTC again and again and look forward to a walk around the neighborhood, which looks better than good.
Nostalgic on Park Avenue
Meet the Original Brownstoners of Bed-Stuy
http://renovatingonthecheap.blogspot.com/2008/01/meet-brownstoners-of-bed-stuy.html
Its is a beautiful area in Norfolk Virginia called Ghent. It was a area 25 years ago much like Bed-Stuy is now. Today is is like BH and PS had a baby http://www.norfolk.gov/Planning/comehome/Ghent_History.asp
Ghent is in the low countries.
Thanks Montrose, for correcting the title of Marshall’s book. Of course, her’s is much better!
All this blogging about Crown Heights has opened lots of memories for me, and just tonight’s photo of the Alhambra and my recollection of the artist who lived there made me think of scores of people, many of whose names I never knew, who populated this part of Brooklyn, including shop owners, doormen, shoe repairman, street hawkers, park matrons (parks department employees who wore crisp white uniforms in Brower Park), and knife sharpeners (who’d come down the streets in horse-drawn carriages and manually sharpen everybody’s kitchen knives — in the 1950’s, can you believe it?). Maybe I’ll try to remember specific things about them for a future post.
In the meantime, you’re absolutely right. Brooklyn neighborhoods are literature, as Marshall and others proved, not just real estate to be bought and sold. That’s what inspires people to perservere in places like Crown Heights and what should encourage others to see their true value.
See you next time on Brownstoner.
NOP
NOP, as always, a wonderful look at a past that would have slipped away unnoticed. We get so caught up in the here and now, or in property values, that it is sometimes easy to forget that real people have continuously lived in these buildings, and they had interesting, full and memorable lives. The homes were a reflection of those lives, and often a stage upon which some incredible characters played.
BTW, the book was “Brown Girl, Brownstones”, which I read after I had just moved to Bed Stuy. It is a great look at the lives of West Indian immigrants in the 50’s and 60’s, who saved up, bought the old row houses of Bed Stuy and Crown Heights, when they were dirt cheap, and managed to scrape together a living by renting them out as rooming houses. The setting of the book takes place blocks from this house.
Thanks for the nod, 8:32. I like posting in Brownstoner, if only to remind bloggers that neighborhoods, like people, have stories and deserve respect.
NOP