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
What 5:29 said.
5:26, agree, but maybe not many posters were around in the depression of 1973/1974 like I was, when whole neighborhoods and office buildings were emptied. Good friend of mine picked up his brownstone in CH for 35k, but the smart ones bought loft buildings in SoHo.
Of course, this time is different, right? Same price of oil, same rising inflation, similar war in middle east.
I’m not saying real estate is gonna take a dive like that, but the possibilities are higher than some people think.
Re: noise from Flatbush. I’m about the 3rd house in from Flatbush right behind this house on Hawthorne St. (my backyard abuts Fenimore Street yards)… and noise from Flatbush – surprisingly – isn’t a problem. The taller buildings along Flatbush block everything out.
[2:19]
It is important to feel safe and to be safe. People who feel safer on the West of the park are really very welcome to stay there.
A walk down Flatbush Ave to the Lime bar from the Prospect Park stop in the evening should tell you all you need to know about neighborhood safety regarding the house in question. There are probably too many Caribbeans here for most Brownstoner readers and it really is ok if you stay in PS and the UES. Or even move to Birmingham.
I feel like I’m wasting my time here, but I just thought I would try to help clarify since I live across the street.
Speaking of fringe areas, for those who continue to believe that RE always goes up, a reminder that during the late 80s/early 90s recession Brooklyn real estate peaked in 1987/88 and didn’t recover to the same levels until about 1994/95. Fine if you can hang in until the market bounces back but in the meantime lots of folks had to endure the anxiety of carrying negative equity. I remember coz I was one of them! Check out this article about Clinton Hill in the NY Times: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE1DB1738F93BA35751C0A961948260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1
Lots of people didn’t get it then and don’t get it now.
is this the area where the doller van drivers take a wiz in your gate?
salaries have changed since 1989. and the dow. and the value of everything.
Well that’s a great trip down memory lane, 5:13 but the fact is that crime on this side of the park is about 5-10 times what it is on the “good side”
Anectdotes are great, but crime stats from the city are a little more important to most people.
Or were you trying to say that PLG is safer overall than Park Slope?
If so, please do continue…I’d love to hear more…
Yes, a lot of haters today. My family has lived on this bad side of the park for 30 years without any problems. My sons, however, were mugged numerous times on the good side of the park even once on a summer Sunday afternoon.