House of the Day: 1907 Ditmas Avenue
This monster of a home (5,500 square feet) at 1907 Ditmas Avenue in Ditmas Park looks pretty sweet to us: Lots of well-preserved detail, large rooms, big corner lot. Whether it’s worth the $1,700,000 remains to be seen. One thing’s for sure, though—Even if it doesn’t go for the asking price, the folks who bought…
This monster of a home (5,500 square feet) at 1907 Ditmas Avenue in Ditmas Park looks pretty sweet to us: Lots of well-preserved detail, large rooms, big corner lot. Whether it’s worth the $1,700,000 remains to be seen. One thing’s for sure, though—Even if it doesn’t go for the asking price, the folks who bought it for $848,500 in 2003 stand to make a pretty penny!
1907 Ditmas Avenue [Mary Kay Gallagher] GMAP P*Shark
great neighborhood. one problem with it, now all the yuppies are starting to move out there so in 3 more years the neighborhood will probably suck!! filled with strollers and some yuppie filled restaurants. do us all a favor and stay in the slope or neighborhoods where the yups are. lets not ruin another brooklyn neighborhood….really.
4:05 has it exactly right. We moved here from a two and a half bedroom rental in the South Slope and now have six bedrooms and are 1/2 hour from work in Soho on the B train. I have plenty of friends in the suburbs and believe me, this is nothing like them. It’s a real community here and people don’t move here because they’re fleeing the urban experience — they just want more space for their families. Sure, we could use a few more restaurants but they’re opening more all the time and if you have kids, how many times are you going to eat out anyway? I grew up in, and then lived in, Manhattan and then all over Park Slope and this is my favorite neighborhood so far. And this time of year, when everyone’s magnolia and cherry trees are in bloom, I walk my dog around here and am just plain happy.
And no, haters, I’m not a broker.
Eh, no worse a commute than coming from some parts of Fort Greene, Sunset Park or other up and coming areas of Brooklyn. I commute via the B from Newkirk and it takes me about 30 minutes to Penn Station.
As for heating and cooling, since you won’t need a car to get in and out of Manhattan and since you won’t have to spend money on a LIRR or MetroNorth monthly pass, it’s about even.
Is this house cheap? Maybe it’s the neighbors. Directly across Ditmas Ave at 1902 is the home of Al Sharpton. These days, just his wife, however. He ditched her a year or two ago for one of his staff workers.
4:05 must be a blast as parties.
4:09 I commuted from the Kings Hwy stop on that line for four years. Trust me, it’s a shitty commute.
Heating bills in my Victorian are the same
as my townhouses in Park Slope. May be a tiny bit more.
Cooling bills are significanly lower since I have 6 x 50 feet trees overshadwoing my house.
I installed ceiling fans all over and unless
it is over 90 degrees outside I don’t use A/C.
It takes 30000 BTU to cool off the whole house.
6 window A/C of 5000BTU each.
To all of you that think that commute from Ditmas park is shitty, think again you have no clue!
I live there, commute to Manhattan is easy.
Q train is few blocks away from any part of Ditmas park.
Commuting to Park Slope is: either take the bus 7 min. or use your bike, 10 min.
Walking to Park slope is 15 min. I do it often.
Shopping in Newkirk ave, or Cortelyou rd., you have very good cafees and nice supermarket, organic food market, as well as very good resturants.
Upcoming is an 80 luxury condo on the corner of Hinckley and Coney Island Ave, as well as few small developments inside.
I own few townhouses around Park Slope and Prospect hights I have no desire to live there, I live in Ditmas Park
in my BIGGGGGGGGG Victorian with a huge lot and a big yard and my private driveway.
I walk to prospect park, it takes my 7 min. like walking from 4th Ave up the hill to the park, same distance.
I don’t need to move my car every morning like a zombie.
If I need to go to Center Slope is either my bike or bus or my moped, Or 15 min walk.
It’s like living in the city and the country together.
No wonder some people who had a bit of a brain sold the condos in the slope and moved here to the victorians. Same price!
Inventory here is pretty limited, if you can grab a Victorian before it is too late do it now.
It’s about 35 minutes to downtown (switch at Atlantic for the 4 or 5) or 45 minutes to midtown, including the walk from Ditmas and 19th to Newkirk Plaza.
Lots of good cheap food (West Indian, Pakistani) but not much of the yuppie-approved fancy stuff.
Heating bills are brutal, but with all the mature trees, and fully detached houses with windows everywhere, you’ll use your A/C a lot less than you would in a brownstone rowhouse.