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
It’s just you.
Is it just me, or does this seem like a great deal? Only two blocks to Prospect park…
I’d be terrified to spend this much money on this neighborhood right now.
Prices in fringe areas are falling fast right now.
I live pretty much right across the street & I am sorry to see the people from 75 go away; they got along well with everyone on the block & I like the peace sign too.
The block is somewhat loud during the summer with kids playing around til midnight and people sitting on their stoops talking and laughing. But it couldn’t be friendlier or safer if it were Kansas. (I know, I know, PLG is scarier than Cabrini Green.)
If you are afraid of or don’t like Caribbean people, food, etc., don’t come. If you like us, grab this house because it’s adorable and well priced.
1:59 – But then you’re in Baltimore. Ick.
No 1:59 you are not saying anything. Baltimore is Dodge City in comparison to NYC. Their crime stat’s can’t even compare to NYC especially when you consider the size of the city of Baltimore and the size of just Brooklyn. If this house would go for 250K in Baltimore you should move to Baltimore.
Thank you Bob. I should have been more precise, only one side of Fenimore is in the Historic District, which makes it less of a desirable block.
In Baltimore, this house would sell for 250K.
And would be in an area with less crime.
Which is saying a lot considering how dangerous Baltimore is.
For a 2 story in Lefferts Manor, the price seems reasonable. The problem is that it looks to be about the third house in from Flatbush (hard to tell for sure since GMap has it wrong). I’d be nervous about the noise from the street. I have friends who live right behind this row on Rutland, and they complain about the loud loiterers and all-night street parties on Fenimore and Flatbush, which they can hear in their house. They say it is worse than what they get on Rutland, which is bad. They also complain about loud music from the rear of the apartment building on Flatbush, which would be an equal issue for this house. All my info is second hand, so take it as such.