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]
agree with you 100% Brooklynnative…where the hell in NYC are they going to live if they don’t like accents? Hopefully most of them have moved out already and are on here posting from NJ.
3:02 is yet another white dude who is too sensitive to noise and black people. It’s so typical of whites nowadays to pretend they don’t like amublance sirens, traffic and bus fumes when what really bothers them is seeing dred locks and hearing accents. Right 2:24, 2:26?
actually, brooklyn is a state
a state of mind, that is
bkln represent
-phil.t
cobble hizill
brooklyn is a borough, not a state
Have all of your forgotten that you live in NYC and not Iowa City? First Brownstoner runs scared from a bunch of 14 teen year-olds and then people start complaining about noise from people on the street. Really?! Man, I miss the old New York not this water downed, everyone’s scared of their own shadow (sometimes people get robbed, deal with it) and adverse to noise.
I live a block from here and walk by this house every day. IMO, the problem with this house’s location doesn’t have anything to do with race – it’s about NOISE. Not just noise from people hanging out on the street (although there’s a lot of that), but also bad traffic noise, both down Lincoln Road (a fave of fire trucks, ambulances, and people testing out their new pipes on their rice burners) and on Flatbush (trucks, buses, you name it, they’re all racing around blowing their horns). Also, unlike Vic Flatbush, the houses and yards surrounding this one are not well preserved or maintained. This is a beautiful house, but the price isn’t just about the house itself. I already live in and love the area, and I think it’s overprices by $150K at least.
Before you all spin off into code word thread, maybe this is just an example were comments would be helpful if they were more specific – i.e. what about the location (nearby buildings, poor schools, no dry cleaner) is problematic. And also, altho the threat of racist inuendo is always present, perhaps people like 2:24 could resist shouting racism when the evidence is very thin or nonexistent. Or maybe I could just stop expecting civil discourse! Sigh. (Though to be fair this thread is unusual in the amount of first hand knowledge being shared. Thanks.)
Another thread where it’s obvious how many older Brooklyn folks have never left the state.
600K? That’s how much a nice house in Nebraska costs.
2:29 – if it were on the other side of the park, it would be well over $2M for a free standing house with parking, in good condition. You are about 4-5 years behind the times. However, I do agree that if I were looking for this kind of house in this price range, I would probably opt for Victorian Flatbush, where I would also be close to the park but surrounded by other such single family houses. I do think this is lovely though and isn’t far off on the price.