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
9:24 – that is the Atlantic Yards project and that was shoved down the throats of the local residents, including people from Park Slope who fought against the project. Teh city did a massive run around the local communities, so the idea that some non-fringe area could have prevented this holds no water. As such, your comments have no validity.
The trash in the section 8 housing live on the other side of Washington, near Grand and Classon. Some of those blocks are hit or miss and that is due to the trash that will soon be kicked out as rents rise and landlords up the rents.
Vanderbilt is not scary at all. Get a spine.
Thre are a lot of people in Manhattan who have never been to Brooklyn. Does that make PArk Slope fringe?!
Really people. Why did you move to Brooklyn if you are so afraid?
Doesn’t Prospect Heights have a massive chunk of vacant land and railyards in its northern section, which was bought by a developer to improve the surrounding blight?
The residents and PR machines of non fringe neighborhoods like the West Village, Park Slope, Chelsea or Carroll Gardens would not have allowed such a project to be built of such scale and magnitude without prior approval or consultation.
The fringe neighborhoods don’t have the clout yet to band together and fight such things properly.
anything east of washington is crown heights
some of you who say prospect heights isn’t fringe need to take a walk some time down lincoln place, st. john’s, bergen street and some of the other side streets between washington and underhill. really not good. a LOT of drug and gang activity still going on. if you don’t see it, you are used to it or something because it’s still there in a significant way.
washington anytime after dark can be dicey and even vanderbilt getting up towards pacific ain’t great late night…
anything east of washington is downright fringe-ville.
i like ph, but i just think it’s not quite there yet.
i guess fringe can mean a lot of different things depending on who you’re talking to though.
Bloods, Crips, Kurds.. Lived in PH for a while. Great place to live. Anyone who feels unsafe in PH has no business living in NYC, and maybe even on the planet.
Yeah, that bloods/crips street by street analysis was great…the evidence of gang activity was soooo overwhelming that it took about three messages before it morphed into a discussion of a South Park episode.
8:54 here. 8:59, agreed. But we all need to recognize the game the seller and/or their agent is playing. I think the ask is nuts and I would be stunned if it sold for this much. I bet the ask will come down in time and will sell for something around $2 (IMO).
I do not think that Prospect Heights is fringe. Many parts of Clinton Hill however, are definitely fringey, if not out and out fringefull.
Prospect Heights was never as down and out as the neighborhood now known as Clinton Hill. I know of nice people who moved to PH way before I knew of anyone with any money moving into Clinton Hill. In my mind there is no comparison, Prospect Heights is nice, Clinton Hill is edgy.