House of the Day: 905 Lincoln Place
Here’s a new listing that probably would have been priced $100,000 or $200,000 higher a few months ago. It’s a three-story, two-family limestone at 905 Lincoln Place in Crown Heights. The block is lovely and the house has amazing wood moldings and floors; no word on the bathrooms and kitchens. Anyway, there’s something refreshingly solid…
Here’s a new listing that probably would have been priced $100,000 or $200,000 higher a few months ago. It’s a three-story, two-family limestone at 905 Lincoln Place in Crown Heights. The block is lovely and the house has amazing wood moldings and floors; no word on the bathrooms and kitchens. Anyway, there’s something refreshingly solid about this one: Beautiful but not grandiose house priced at a level that a non-Wall Street family can afford. Think it’ll go for the asking price?
905 Lincoln Place [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
I think that Montrose Morris and Nostalgic on Park Avenue are the same person. Their inability to express a point in less than 5000 words is no coincidence. Really, I think that MM is talking to him/herself.
I agree that the price for this home is too high, given the area’s high crime rate. MM, if the area has no problem with crime, then why was it designated an Operation Impact zone? I guess the NYPD is just stupid and assigns resources randomly rather than according to need.
Yes, I know that Crown Heights is a large neighborhood, but the influx of Operation Impact officers is seen only one block away from this house.
http://www.brooklynian.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=39857&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
As usual, you assume that anyone who mentions crime in CH has never visited the area. Quite the contrary, I have been to the neighborhood many times and have several friends who have resided there since the early 70s (two on New York and Park Place, one on Prospect, between Nostrand and NY, and another on Sterling, between Brooklyn and Kingston). All have said that even though things have improved since the 80s and 90s, the area still has significant problems with violent crime.
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.
Whew, I better stop, lest I be guilty of a “Monstrose Morris” (i.e. a long-winded postin). 🙂
“can you recap in four or fewer sentences?”
Pepperidge Farm remembers.
MM:
Thanks. And it’s reassuring to know the Betsy Ross is in great shape. My friends and I used to ride our bicycles down its service ramp to the basement and chase each other around the boiler room, servants’ locker rooms, and gymnasium (yes, there was a gym!), and out to the street again. Even though there were doormen, entrances other than the lobby’s were unguarded and unlocked, just proving how relaxed Brooklyn was at the time.
Somehow, I knew the building would hold on. When my parents brought me to the occasional cocktail party there (“progressive” parents did that in those days), I usually heard the adults say it was the best “house” in Brooklyn. “House” is what people in their generation called an apartment building, no matter how big the place.
I wrote a little more about Crown Heights apartments under a February 4 Brownstoner post about the condominium boom on Crown Street. There may be other buildings you recognize in that piece, too.
Looking forward to your update on the Betsy Ross.
NOP
Nostalgic, ya gotta write a book, or a play. Really.
I’m saving these. They are a wonderful look back at a time and place so foreign, yet so familiar, and make me look at the neighborhood with new eyes.
BTW, I think the Betsy Ross is a coop, I’m still trying to find out. It’s still in great shape, minus the white gloved doormen, of course.
anyone who lives here is a real new yorker.
if you don’t think so, then YOU my dear are the one who needs to take a look in the mirror.
REAL new yorkers accept all people.
not just the old, crotchety ones.
I loved Nostalgic on Park Avenue and Montrose Morris post. Montrose lives there!! He is the expert.
Not you nasty frat boys and little debutante girls. Go back to where you came from…because I am sure you are not real New Yorkers like Nostalgic and Montrose.
NOP = Mr. Rogers
Oooooohhhh mmmmm THANK YOU THANK YOU NOPA for that HEARTWARMING remembrance of days past smarm smarm bringing us the history of our wonderful community smarm
BORING
if somebody actually read the last post can you recap in four or fewer sentences?