House of the Day: 144 Underhill Avenue
This 4-story, 23-foot wide brownstone at 144 Underhill Avenue is a beauty but it’s priced as if it were on the other side of Flatbush Avenue. The more we look at the photos of this place, the more we like it—the woodwork, the multiple exposures, the old extension. (Don’t forget the two-car garage.) It all…
This 4-story, 23-foot wide brownstone at 144 Underhill Avenue is a beauty but it’s priced as if it were on the other side of Flatbush Avenue. The more we look at the photos of this place, the more we like it—the woodwork, the multiple exposures, the old extension. (Don’t forget the two-car garage.) It all adds up to one heck of a place. We just don’t think the market’s ready to bear a $2,750,000 asking price in this location yet.
144 Underhill Avenue [Brooklyn Properties] GMAP P*Shark
Awww, thanks Nokilissa. At least someone out there appreciates my cornball, Catskill-esque humor.
Biff gets the bon mot award for the no whey posting.
“It is a weird thing that is happening now in Brooklyn. I have never seen anything like it.”
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So you’ve never been to Washington DC, Baltimore, Center City Philadelphia, Seattle, Los Angeles or San Francisco?
Seriously dude…expensive properties in former and current “ghettos” (um….the MISSION in SF for one) is not a New York City phenomenon.
The disparity in incomes is even more pronounced outside the U.S….Dubai, Buenos Aires, Madrid, Paris to name a few…
How about the year 1995 on 96th Street and Lexington Avenue. South of the Street, one of the wealthiest enclaves in the country…north of Lexington, one of the most impoverished…
That “hill” in PS ain’t looking so bad anymore, does it Nokilissa??
Brooklynnative–that 3rd Street limestone house abuts the open garden lot that belongs to Safran Foer.
All the prices in these run-down and none-too-safe neighborhoods are ridiculous. Why pick on Prospect Heights? When folks are willing to pay a million or more dollars in areas that just yesterday were poverty-stricken and where many people coninue to live below the poverty line, I would expect that you will see some crime.
The prices are so out of whack with the demographics that folks who have lived there all their lives could not even dream of buying a stoop let alone a whole house.
It is a weird thing that is happening now in Brooklyn. I have never seen anything like it.
Biff, you’re “whey” comment was gorgeous! LOL.
I read through the thread on Brooklynian posted by 2:21 and am a bit stunned. Had no idea the area could be so dangerous. We were just at that playground with our kids a couple of weeks ago and thought it was really sweet.
Anyone know why the recent uptick in violence and gunplay? Not a pleasant development.
I count three properties for sale on 3rd Street.
Is that a lot?
Agreed 3:22. But I’d prefer this other 3rd Street house, listed for almost 100K less than Underhill:
http://www.corcoran.com/property/listing.aspx?Region=NYC&ListingID=1271190&ohDat=