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
only in brooklyn would people be ridiculed for feeling uncomfortable living in a neighborhood with consistent gunfire, horrible schools and a healthy drug trade.
and then be expected to pay 3 million for it.
I actually wonder, not at all sarcastically — seriously! — if this pricing isn’t like that Bed Stuy sale on Madison for 900K-something.
10:14 = bitter renter.
I’m Bruce Ratner? You are high on crack my friend. Come down from your hallucinatory state and see the world as it is. These high as a kite prices for ordinary dirty old houses is a thing of the past.
9:46: I live in Bed Stuy, you ass, and I am doing everything I can to throw the trash that lives there out to make it nicer for all the hard working people who live and work there. You have no clue. trust me, the person who buys this house, at any price, will work to clean things up.
Honestly, if you are afraid of PH, you shouldn’t be living in Brooklyn cause you just can’t handle it.
And the mention about your friend the cop is not only completely off the mark it reeks of MySpace tween stupidity.
9:50, you ass, they can’t propose that kind of development on 7th Avenu because it would have cost too much. The plot was city owned, that is why they chose the spot. Teh city gave ratner a deal and he pushed out the development because he could afford to and he had city backing. He didn’t use his slimy tactics on teh north side of Atlantic because there are too many homeowners who woudl have put up a royal stick and would never have sold out. ANd since that housing stock was extremely new could not be condemned IDIOT.
And people in Park Slope did fight against it, so you have no clue how things work in this city.
Are you all from the midwest or something?
9:52 = bruce ratner
Being afraid is a good thing in Brooklyn. There are a lot of bad people here. People who do not really recognize the difference between neo-grec and queen anne. This is not suburban NJ or Conn. there are a lot of poor desperate, angry people living in the nieghborohhod who are not glad to see places selling $3 a cup coffe or organic foods. Brooklyn is a poor city. POOR, POOR, POOR. All you millionaires who want to buy here should understand most of your neighbors are DIRT POOR. if they were not dirt poor they would have hauled ass years ago to greener, healthier, pastures.
What is happeneing now in brooklyn is ridiculous, it is the young and rich being beguiled by the realtors to think that they are moving in to areas with like-minded people when actually they are moving into neighborhoods offically designated as blighted by the government.
atlantic yards has major frontage on prospect heights. more than any other neighborhood. it really will not affect park slope in the same way it will affect prospect heights.
i do not believe for one second that if they were proposing atlantic yards down a non landmarked swath of 7th avenue that this would have stood a chance.
Most people, at this point in time have heard of Park Slope…
Let’s get real here.
Prospect Heights is fine. It’s great.
You are talking about it as though it’s the best sh*t since sliced bread though. Take a look at the crime stats bud…the murder on Vandy…THIS YEAR…the drive by shootings on Underhill, and the section 8 housing between Underhill and Washinton. Blocks of it. A police office friend told me that St. John’s between Underhill and Washington is a HUGE drug hub for Brownstone Brooklyn.
No one said anything about being afraid. PH is an urban neighborhood. That’s also what makes it great. But you can still be based in reality when you are describing it.
Those threads about the drive by shootings were all from people who live in the neighborhood. We don’t have anything to hide. It wasn’t a set up from others trying to make our hood look bad. We were talking about what’s going on. And we’ve still got a lot of work to do.
Stop ignoring that and do something to improve it instead of lying to yourself, telling yourself it’s perfect. Why don’t you start with the schools…they are not great, to say the least.
Another sign of a fringe neighborhood, btw…