House of the Day: 74 Lincoln Road
When 74 Lincoln Road was an Open House Pick back in early May, it had the optimistic price tag of $1,395,000; last week that asking price was trimmed to $1,295,000. This baby’s a charmer, to be sure: An unattached Colonial Revival house with lots of detail and in excellent shape; to top it off, it’s…
When 74 Lincoln Road was an Open House Pick back in early May, it had the optimistic price tag of $1,395,000; last week that asking price was trimmed to $1,295,000. This baby’s a charmer, to be sure: An unattached Colonial Revival house with lots of detail and in excellent shape; to top it off, it’s got a driveway and garage. Still, they’re not giving it away. Do you think this price cut will make a difference?
74 Lincoln Road [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP P*Shark
Open House Picks 5/9/08 [Brownstoner]
Owner again (last time I hope 🙂
I can only vouch for my corner (Lincoln, about 150 feet E of Flatbush, as obviously, I live here. Can’t vouch for noise at these corners: Maple, Midwood, Rutland and Fenimore.
If you don’t live here, and aren’t observing the day to day, week after week, year after year, don’t know how people can have credibility on frequency, and decibals, of noise. As I type, it’s dead quiet, at 9:59 pm, on a Tuesday night, and has been all night.
Un, or vaguely substantiated heresay is alway difficult to deal with. Have we no due process?
I can understand the perception of noise, certainly, along the Flatbush corridor, but it seems rash and unfair to impugn all houses in our neighborhood near it.
I’m not a neighbor, that was a different poster who commented on the noise of the location. And I’m not ‘attacking’ the neighborhood–I’m attacking (if I must use that word) the exact location of your house. Your account of how often the noise is a problem does not jive with what I’ve heard from other area residents (all of whom have warned me against buying close to Flatbush). But I will indeed make a point to swing by every weekend this summer and see (or hear) for myself.
Owner again. To 3:25, thanks for the nice comments on the house. Am not doubting that you could see music and people outside on a Friday summer evening. But one night or three, doesn’t make for an empirical sampling. You’re welcome to come over and hang on the porch, anytime. Email me offline danshickler@aol.com
A sampling of 30 summer nights may find 2 or 3 to be loud; and usually not for too long of a time period. Friday and Saturday nights will predictably be the loudest.
I enjoy being part of the larger community, with all its vibrance, activity and diversity.
The trajectory of the nabe is one towards an ever-improving quality of life.
As amenites continue to return to Lincoln Road, and Flatbush, as supported by an imminent critical mass of socioeconomic changes to the demographics in the apartment buildings, the challenges of which you speak, will fade, and finally, the location may be viewed as an actual asset, with 2 minute proximity to the subway platform and restaurants and 3 minutes to the park.
Why do I have to defend my neighborhood to a neighbor?
So what you’re saying 3:25 is some like some kind of noise but some don’t. Wow. What an insightful statement.
Owner: I saw your house saw at an openhouse and it is lovely. Congratulations on a nice job. Personally I have no problem with some traffic noise (or kids walking above me) but I’ve lived with people hanging out on street corners near where I live and that noise is unbearable (for me). I did a walk by of your house recently on a Friday night and “music and loiterers” seemed to definitely still be a problem. For me, that is a deal-breaker. I’m sure there are people out there who won’t be bothered by it.
Put it in context. We owned a coop on a prime, named, North Slope block and I always had to wear earplugs because of the kid upstairs. I’d rather have occasional street noise for a few months in Summer than hear on every day of the year stomping, falling, running and screaming above me. Neighbor noise is the worst of all bar none, and this house is blessedly freestanding.
I can confirm what the owner says. I’ve been inside the house. It’s a big deep house set back from the street. You do not hear that much noise from the street or a half-block away on Flatbush. And in the rooms in the back of the house you hear none of it.
Owner here. Have lived in this house 12 years. It’s actually very quiet; in the evenings. Music and loiterers were a problem some years back. The apt building on corner muffles noise from Flatbush.
This site is the ultimate ying and yang; great publicity, but with a good public flogging.
1:51 – actually, traffic noise is a big part of the problem with this location – as is the noise of people hanging out on the street, along with music and TV from apartment windows both next to and across from this house. It’s a busy corner in a lot of ways. Nothing wrong with that – lots of NYers love their noise and can’t stand the country ’cause it’s too quiet and it scares them. But if I were spending 1.3MM on a house, I’d want to be able to sleep with my windows open without wearing earplugs. My experience of the Union/6th Ave. area is that it gets noisy during the day, but is much quieter at night – quite different from Lincoln and Flatbush. But maybe a deaf millionaire will come along and make the seller’s day.