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
quote from prospect heights message board:
“yes, seperate incidents. The 2nd shooting appears on gothamist crime maps at 11:21am. Drivebys…across the street from a playground…really not good.”
10, 9, 8…. they’ll get here soon Biff
First of all, all of Brownstone Brooklyn has not gone from zero to 3 million overnight.
It’s really just the fringe areas like Clinton Hill, Prospect Heights, Bed Stuy, Crown Heights, etc which have decided that they can do no work to improve crime or schools and ask the same price as those in other more estblished neighborhoods do.
Brownstones in Park Slope and Brooklyn Heights were over a million dollars 10 years ago in case you were unaware. Now from 1 million to 3 perhaps has only been in the last 10 years, but there are MANY other neighborhoods around the country which have experienced this…
Many neighborhoods in DC, Philadelphia, San Diego, LA, San Franciso were considered ghettos as early as 15 years ago. Now they are gleaming with million dollar homes.
Do any of you read the real estate sections in other parts of the country to keep up?
I just recently saw condos priced at 3 million in downtown St. Louis.
Seems you all are living in a time warp.
Cities are expensive these days. In the past 10 years the shift from suburban to urban has changed the face of America. Today, more and more people want to live in the urban core. It has thus shot prices up. NO ONE wanted to live anywhere near Washington DC 15 years ago. Now you’d have to pull people kicking and screaming to the suburbs of Maryland and Virginia. Everyone wants to be in Dupont Circle and Adams Morgan.
Ok, well not everyone, but a lot more than used to be the case.
4:19, you’re right. That last one was painful, even by my standards. Apologies.
Countown to the first “too bad we didn’t” response to 4:27…10, 9, 8…
4:09 PM
im giving an example of two shitty areas in a different city (DC) to compare to what is happening in Brookly.
However in Brooklyn we didnt Bulldoze Bed-Stuy and Crown Heights.
Biff, please keep it down to one pun per thread. Clearly some people enjoy them, but I find the physically painful. Aaalllgh.
I lived near this house in Prospect Heights for 8 years and it’s a much better neighborhood to live in than Park Slope, particularly the 3rd street area, which is where I grew up. Great grocery shopping, quiet, less crowded, better subway access, wider streets, actual diversity, closer to the BBG, museum, park and farmer’s market. If I had 3 mil to drop, PH is the first place I’d look. But I don’t, which is why I don’t live in Brooklyn anymore.
Also, drive-by shootings? What?
You’re comparing Chinatown in DC with all of brownstone Brooklyn? You nuts?
Nokilissa, it will take more than a minute or two to get through that thread! It’s a bit of a doozy, but has it’s moments. Take a look at it later if you get a chance.
I promise not to lump again, sugar. Get it, lump, sugar…never mind….