House of the Day: 75 Fenimore Street
Here’s an interesting FSBO. The 1,872-square-foot brick house at 75 Fenimore Street is a comfortable-looking four-bedroom with its own driveway and garage. According to the Prospect Lefferts Gardens Historic District Designation Report, the house, which was built around 1920, is particularly notable for its “steep slate mansard roods and ornamental doorway enframements.” The asking price…
Here’s an interesting FSBO. The 1,872-square-foot brick house at 75 Fenimore Street is a comfortable-looking four-bedroom with its own driveway and garage. According to the Prospect Lefferts Gardens Historic District Designation Report, the house, which was built around 1920, is particularly notable for its “steep slate mansard roods and ornamental doorway enframements.” The asking price of $825,000 seems reasonable to us, but none of the similar houses to either side have changed hands in recent years so close comps aren’t available; a three-story brownstone across the street at 74 Fenimore Street changed hands for $550,000 in 2003. Think this’ll move at this price?
75 Fenimore Street [FSBO] GMAP P*Shark
Place is now sold. . . so much for the naysayers.
Good price and nice house trumps all the background noise on Brownstoner
I knew this discussion about noise on Fenimore rang a bell. When I was researching the area I found the following on wwww.acrossthepark.com. It’s from summer 2006–have things changed?
“More tame than what? I haven’t noticed any increase in quiet or calmness on Flatbush along Fenimore or Rutland. The summer has been quiet noisy and busy to my ears and eyes. Not sure if it was any worse than last summer, but certainly no better.
Posted by: jd | August 01, 2006 at 02:15 PM
Flatbush may not be as rowdy, but the site lines of this camera have been. In front of 66 Fenimore especially. Late nite drunken dice games, music, dealing, 24/7 basketball court set up on the sidewalk. This has been the worst summer yet (since summer of 2003).
Posted by: Tom | August 01, 2006 at 02:19 PM
I recall street life being much more rowdy about 5 years ago. Anyway, if people are breaking the law, you should call the cops.
Posted by: Ed | August 01, 2006 at 05:41 PM
I am with Tom, when there are gatherings — which are intermittent — they are way worse than any I have seen before. This is the first year I have seen open gambling on the street. The day of the Flatbush Street Fair I stopped counting at 70 in terms of how many people were gathered in front of 66 Fenimore.
And yes, I called the police several times. I did observe a cruiser stop early in the evening (9:30 pm or so) when the crowd was very large and have a pleasant chat with the folks involved. No one seemed to even care a police cruiser was present, so I am doubtful this car was even responding to a call. Essentially there was absolutely nothing done and zero impact if in fact that particular cruiser was intended to disperse the crowd.
What I did see was lots of public urination, drug dealing, etc. — business as usual. I might add that none of the people in the crowd live in this building.
The fact the police/precinct have absolutely no intention of seeing this corner cleaned up in the immediate future couldn’t be any clearer to me. We get a lot of lip service from the precinct about calls, etc. but in general we get no response whatsoever from the police and therefore all remains status quo with the continuing degradation of that corner.
Posted by: Laurel | August 01, 2006 at 06:23 PM
There’s been a semi-regular Friday night craps game on Rutland and Flatbush for years–I’ve heard it was going on long before I moved to the area. I think it moves from the sidewalk to the alley next to 16 Rutland sometimes. I’ve never seen it get larger than 12 people or so, but it includes plenty of drinking and yelling.
As for the regular hanging out on the stoop and playing music, it really isn’t against the law–at least not as far as the police are concerned.”
As a grown-up and very content homeowner in PLG I don’t feel the need to ridicule and devalue other neighborhoods.
All the mudslinging is just way too childlike, and can only come from a small minded, ignorant, and quite frankly, very boring group of people.
You’re lucky, 10:53. Our neighbors in Park Slope barely spoke to us.
my neighbor sweeps my stoop in park slope too.
does that make my neighborhood better??
60k ten years ago?!
I bought my brownstone in Park Slope in 1990 for $650k.
That was closer to 20 years ago than 10! I WISH they cost 60k in 1997.
11:55PM 825K and livin with the monkeys. hey Brownstoner we are going to mail that one to your kids at their private school. Look teacher my dad makes money this way! This is how I can stay out of “monkey” schools.
So many people see this neighborhood in comparison to other neighborhoods instead of taking it for what it is. First of all to say that the area has zero amenities is incorrect. There are plenty of supermarkets, 2 decent coffee shops, restaurants (mexican, japanese, seafood, diner, not to mention the delicious roti shops on Flatbush) and easy access to multiple trains (the q,b,shuttle,2 and 5).
The houses here are also spectacular and varied (instead of being the same brownstone over and over again). And the people who live here are actually very friendly and polite. I have lived here for 4 months and I have not once been catcalled, something that used to happen to me in Williamsburg all the time. Not only that but, my neighbor, who I barely know always sweeps up the leaves that fall on my step. I never asked him…he does it for everyone on the block! So go ahead and make your comparisons so that you can feel better about paying twice as much in rent as I do (I pay 1250 for a two bedroom with a backyard). And while you’re paying 4.50 for your starbucks, I’ll be enjoying a cup of homebrewed coffee with my neighbors on the stoop.
Most of you really should be in the suburbs (or rural Alabama in the case of 11:55pm) from what it sounds like where your comfort levels are at. You’d just fit in better there. If you don’t like diversity you are so in the wrong city.