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
7:19/8:23 doesn’t own in PH, 8:34. It is obvious due to their lack of knowledge of the real estate market in their neighborhood.
The only people who make less than 40K and live in this area are the oldtime owners – who are not going to go into foreclosure, or the remaining pieces of ghetto trash who have yet to be kicked out due to higher prices. Gee, let me guess which one you are, 7:19?
If you live in Prospect Heights and still think it is fringe then you need to get out more. In no way is it fringe.
Do you own in PH?
I am 7:19 and I live at Lincoln and Washington.
IN Prospect Heights.
Since the average income in PH is around 40k a year, there is no way the majority of this neighborhood owns million and up condos or homes.
If that is REALLY the case, then you all better be ready of the “majority” of the neighborhood to foreclose.
7:19, you are letting the whole world know that you are pretty clueless about Brooklyn neighborhoods. Prospect Heights,with its numerous cafes, bars, restaurants, cultural institutions and the like is not, and could never be considered fringe. Its stately brownstones, its tree-covered streets, its close proximity to rapid public transportation, its abundance of active and sustained cultural activities and its diverse residents (upper middle class, working class, poor, black, white, yuppie, artsy, hip-hop) all speak to a pretty well settled neighborhood. Park Slope, it certainly is not, but like Clinton Hill, it is a neighborhood that has arrived and will continue to attract new comers because of its quaintness. Visit the whole neighborhood before you make close-minded and simplistic comments.
7:19: There are lots of brownstones and condos in Prospect Heights that sell well over $1 million, so those people who spend that kind of money in this area are not in the minority.
And you have not spent much time on Vanderbilt Avenue, Washington Avenue – or technically the north side of Flatbush Avenue – in the past few years to see that the retail and commercial options are more than adequate for people spending those millions.
As for the crips and bloods controlling the streets of PH, where do you come up with such nonsense? (oh wait, you trust the idiots on some message board instead of checking it out yourself.)
You are really clueless.
7:19: If the only way you get your information is via message boards, you prove my point that you don’t know Prospect Heights. It is not fringe. Perhaps, before you make an idiotic comment on this board, you actually visit Prospect Heights – and any other neighborhood you can’t actually afford but feel comfortable commenting on – before you make an ass of yourself in public.
if a person could read and write why in the world would they be a realtor? couldn’t they get a real job?
Prospect Heights is about as fringe as you get. Fringe to me means the majority of residents are not wealthy, there is still high crime compared to other neighborhoods nearby and that retail and commercial is not yet up to the standards of those spending millions of dollars on a home (even though they are the minority in that particular neighborhood).
Prospect Heights seems to fit that bill to me…
If you’d like…please go take a look on the message boards and read about which streets are controlled by the Crips and which are controlled by the Bloods in Prospect Heights if you really don’t think it’s “fringe”
LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION