House of the Day: 1549 New York Avenue
This is one flip that has flopped. The unattached, shingled house at 1549 New York Avenue was purchased for $820,000 in March of 2007 and was promptly put back on the market for $1,300,000 in July. Then it sat, and sat, and sat, until it was lowered earlier this week to $975,000—certainly one of the…
This is one flip that has flopped. The unattached, shingled house at 1549 New York Avenue was purchased for $820,000 in March of 2007 and was promptly put back on the market for $1,300,000 in July. Then it sat, and sat, and sat, until it was lowered earlier this week to $975,000—certainly one of the more dramatic price cuts we’ve seen recently, but clearly a much needed one. The house is quite charming (though we’re not loving the kitchen and bathrooms) and has a two-car garage to boot. Can any readers speak to what this block is like?
1549 New York Avenue [Douglas Elliman] GMAP P*Shark
If Target invested there why won’t you? Hey guys if you can buy property in Brooklyn now buy it. If you can’t don’t belittle people who are trying to make power moves. NEW YORK CITY is all about power moves. You just might have to make a power move to OHIO and let the big boys play in BROOKLYN BABY.
THIS IS WHY MILLIONAIRES LIKE MYSELF DON’T GIVE BACK TO MIDDLE CLASS PEOPLE SOMETIMES. YOU NEVER SEE THE BIG PICTURE. AND THIS GOES OUT TO ALL THE MIDDLE CLASS WHITE PEOPLE WHO HAS LIVED OFF OF GRANDPA’S AND PAPA’S LIFE SAVINGS. EAST FLATBUSH IS AWEFUL?? BARBARA STREISAND LIVED IN E. FLATBUSH. I AM BLACK AND I LOVE THE ORTHODOXY JEWS. THEY ARE THE ONLY ONES THAT RISK IT ALL. THEY LIVE NEAR THE “GHETTOES” MAKE ALL YOU REGULAR WHITE PEOPLE MOVE TO “LONG ISLAND” STATEN ISLAND.AND THEY TAKE THE PRIME REAL ESTATE. “WAKE” UP FOOLS..ALL THE “GENTRIFIED” AREAS THAT YOU IDIOTS PAID FOR BROWNSTONES IN “BLACK” AREAS THOSE BLACKS ARE IN ATLANTA IN HOUSES YOU WILL “NEVER” HAVE. AS LONG AS YOU ARE CLOSE TO MANHATTAN WHERE BROWNSTONES ARE $13,000,000 WHAT THE HECK IS 975K FOR A HOUSE??? MANHATTAN MILLIONAIRES ARE LAUGHING AT YOU..ME TOO AS I LOOK OUT MY WINDOW IN TIME WARNER CENTER..YOU KNOW HOW I GOT HERE??? I BOUGHT 12 HOUSES IN E. FLATBUSH 10 YEARS AGO…IF TARGET CAN INVEST THERE..WHO THE HELL ARE YOU??? ALSO DO YOUR RESEARCH. 3321 GLENWOOD SOLD FOR $2,300,000. IF THIS HOUSE WAS IN GREENPOINT YOU WOULD FLOCK AND BAIL OUT A POLISH RIGHT FOR HOW MUCH?? IRAQ IS BAD…NORTHERN IRELAND IS BAD..CONGO IS BAD..E. FLATBUSH IS WHERE THE NEW MILLIONAIRES WILL LIVE…YOU BETTER RUN TO RED HOOK AND BAIL OUT MY PUERTO RICAN FRIENDS WHILE YOU CAN…ALSO TRAVEL…SEE OTHER STATES….START WITH NEWARK..ANOTHER CITY PEOPLE DEGRADE…WHEN WILL THE IGNORANCE WITH REGULAR POOR/MIDDLE CLASS WHITE PEOPLE STOP???? JOKES ON YOU..YEAH YOUR WHITE BUT NOT RICH IDIOT…BARAK OBAMA IS NOT BLACK OR WHITE..HE’S RICH..BEEEEITCH..
Hmmm. Guess the neighbors out to consider putting up a brick wall and getting a few asbestos tracksuits, just to be sure:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/05/nyregion/05fraud.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion&oref=slogin
This really sucks. Beautiful old home + greedy scam artists + marginalized neighborhood = Another piece of Brooklyn’s history up in smoke.
Hey, 8:26, maybe that’s how they spell it in Poland (which is where he’s from). Can’t account for the collar, though.
area is not hood, but price is still too high
A junior one bedroom cave in Europe sounds neat.
Dumb ancestors.
Its in the ghetto, at this point he might as well commit insurance fraud too and cut his losses.
820k in 2007 was too much so it’s much too much now. keep cutting.
This house was built on the edge of Vanderveer Park, one of the original Victorian Flatbush neighborhoods that is now largely defunt. It is one of a handful that still survive.