House of the Day: 483 Putnam Avenue
This three-story brownstone at 483 Putnam Avenue in Bedford Stuyvesant is a charmer. The parlor floor of the owner’s duplex is stunning, and it looks like the rest of the house has its share of original details as well. If this were four stories, we’d say that the asking price of $809,000 looked pretty good….
This three-story brownstone at 483 Putnam Avenue in Bedford Stuyvesant is a charmer. The parlor floor of the owner’s duplex is stunning, and it looks like the rest of the house has its share of original details as well. If this were four stories, we’d say that the asking price of $809,000 looked pretty good. At three stories and only about 2,500-square-feet, it’s not as compelling as Thursday’s House of the Day. But given that this place changed hands for $700,000 two years ago, it’s not crazy either. We’ll be surprised if they get their price though in this market.
483 Putnam Avenue [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
I live in Roosevelt Houses.And i can tell that all the stick up boys around here, cant wait til all u wealthy yuppies start moving in.They know all ur walking routes from the train.Good luck walking home at night guys.Ull need it.
I see gentrification
This looks like a good deal for the money… How far is this from the grand brownstones on Jefferson and Hancock St.
Only thing missing is a nice little tree in the front
It looks like Stuyvesant Heights is going to be its own village.
As the number of “trend-setters” grows, they create amenities valued by the bourgeoisie, particularly service establishments such as new bars, restaurants, and art galleries that serve the gentrifying group’s demographic. Residents with a similar outlook and greater amounts of capital may then follow. This group, in turn, further adds amenities and investment to the area, increases local property values, and paves the way for more risk-averse investors and residents. The first newcomers, priced out of their newly fashionable neighborhood, move on to adjacent areas, where the process often begins anew. In this theory, the classic sector model of urban residential succession—essentially that neighborhoods “trickle down” from one socioeconomic group to another, with the wealthiest residents moving linearly outward from the central business district—works in reverse, but the “invasion-succession” process proceeds in a remarkably similar fashion.
The urban middle-class typically does not begin to occupy new neighborhoods all at once. In many cases, more economically marginal subgroups of “trend-setters”—often referred to in popular literature as “urban pioneers” (Smith 1996, 26) although that term carries with it racist aspersions (Smith 1996, 13)—are the first to arrive in gentrifying areas. Although these groups may not have high incomes, their high educational or occupational status (i.e., high cultural capital) qualify them as marginally bourgeois. In many cases, these individuals are young and live in non-family households, and thus have a higher tolerance for perceived urban ills (such as crime, poor-quality schools, lack of amenities like shops and parks, and the presence of disadvantaged racial, ethnic, or socioeconomic groups) that may dissuade middle-class families.
What Bedford Stuyvesant needs is:
-The neighborhood has a discernible center. This is often a square or a green and sometimes a busy or memorable street corner. A transit stop would be located at this center Fulton Street.
-The streets shaded by rows of trees. This slows traffic, creating an environment suitable for pedestrians and bicycles.
-Certain prominent sites at the termination of street vistas or in the neighborhood center are reserved for civic buildings. These provide sites for community meetings, education, and religious or cultural activities.
-The neighborhood is organized to be self-governing. A formal association debates and decides matters of maintenance, security, and physical change. Taxation is the responsibility of the larger community
I think a good school would help the area. St Johns use to be in Bedford Stuyvesant I think they should have a Brooklyn campus.