House of the Day: 905 Lincoln Place

4.36pm:

Housing discrimination is against the law. If you feel that you’ve been turned down for this wonderful house because of religious reasons, go to http://www.housingforall.org and follow the directions to local authorities and make your complaint.

Note: Recently, Corcoran suffered public embarassment because offices in Brooklyn were charged with discriminating against African Americans. This house is listed with Corcoran. If you feel you’re being discouraged because you’re Jewish but not Orthodox, let them know you’re willing to let the word out, then be sure to lodge a complaint.

Crown Heights’ future is dependent on good people of all types committed to the neighborhood.

Hope you like this house, buy it, and enjoy it.

NOP/BCHM

Do houses like these get sold to non-Orthodox?

I’m Jewish but not Orthodox, and I don’t know how it works or whether this is a hard-core Lubavitch block. I remember the you-can’t-buy-if-you’re-not-Chinese Dumbo building from several weeks back, and I’m not sure whether this n-hood is like that.

Thanks…

No, Montrose Morris and I are not the same person. (We’ve never even met.)

As for those who find our postings “long winded,” take a tip from Mrs. C., my third grade teacher at P.S. 138, who taught us how to read using the New York Times:

1. Scan the top of the piece to see if it interests you.
2. If it does, scan the rest of the piece to find out if it makes points you’d like to learn more about.
3. If you don’t care for the piece go to the next article.
4. If it does interest you, read it with the advantage of increased comprehension because you’ve scanned it.

These tips helped her charges read at the 12th-grade level according to the tests given at the time.

Another advantage of a Crown Heights public-school education.

NOP

So the proof that NOP and I are the same person is that we both are long winded, and both like CH? Yah, makes perfect sense. NOT.

“MM, if the area has no problem with crime….” NEVER said anything of the kind, EVER. I SAID the subway stop was very busy, had lots of police, and people at all times of day and night. SOMEONE ELSE implied you won’t make it home without getting mugged. I refuted his/her attempts to make funny.

“but the influx of Operation Impact officers is seen only one block away from this house”.

If you are going to use this Brooklynian thread as backup, at least read it. Operation Impact put most of the police in the Crow Hill section of CH, between Classon, Franklin and Nostrand. A house in between New York and Brooklyn Ave wouldn’t even hear the sirens. While technically true that the END of the operation at Nostrand is a block away from the BEGINNING of the block that this house is between, you are talking about very long blocks, and a world of difference. You make it sound as if the police are massing on the corner by this house, and that is highly misleading and misrepresentational. Everyone knows that ALL neighborhoods, even the best, can change character in the space of a block. Why hold us to a standard not imposed on other neighborhoods?

“I have every faith that you will continue to deny or minimize this issue, but, like it or not, the crime rate is a major reason why property in CH is so much cheaper than other, more prime Brooklyn neighborhoods.”

As usual, you take from thin air and what you want to take from every post I have ever written about Crown Heights. NO SHIT, that is a reason why home prices here are lower, and that is the ONLY redeeming characteristic of a higher crime rate than other neighborhoods. And no shit, we have crime. I HAVE NEVER SAID OTHERWISE. I have only said, and I will continue to say, no matter how long winded I get, that in spite of crime, in spite of negative press, in spite of people like you who get some perverse glory and thrill from constantly rubbing “crime” in our faces, people who live here, like it, and are in it for the long haul. They enjoy the many positive things about our neighborhood, including beautiful homes and streetscapes, great neighbors, and easy access to transportation and the rest of the city.

We all know there is crime. We all applaud the efforts of the police to stop it, and we all look forward to the day when we are not “required” by people like you to apologize for the crime and other negative elements of where we live, whenever the neighborhood of Crown Heights is uttered.

People in Park Slope may get tired of being razzed for stroller moms, and people in Wmsburg probably are sick of the word hipster, but at no point are they required to add an apology or explanation to a conversation about their homes. (I live in Willamsburg. I love it, but I’m really sorry about the hipsters.) But we constantly are told we live with blinders on, or are trying to prop up our property values, when we don’t mention crime in the same breath as Crown Heights. I’m touchy about it because it’s bullshit, and it happens every single time. Everyone who reads this blog knows our crime rate is higher than some other neighborhoods. You know what, that didn’t stop a lot of new peoplw from buying, and it doesn’t keep them, or old timers barricaded in their homes. We go in and out, and enjoy our neighborhood, just as people in Park Slope or Williamsburg or Clinton Hill do. We are in it for the long haul, and will be here after the crime rate declines, and after the commercial streets improve, and when some of the amenities and services that Nostalgic on Park Ave remembers return. If you can’t understand that tenacity, or that commitment, then I can’t help you, and that is your loss.