House of the Day: 64 Lefferts Place
This four-story, three-family limestone at 64 Lefferts Place on the southern edge of Clinton Hill has some beautiful original detail (we’re particularly taken with the plaster moldings shown in the bedroom and, in this slideshow, in the stairwell). We’re less enthusiastic about how the new(ish) kitchens look, but each to his own. The asking price…
This four-story, three-family limestone at 64 Lefferts Place on the southern edge of Clinton Hill has some beautiful original detail (we’re particularly taken with the plaster moldings shown in the bedroom and, in this slideshow, in the stairwell). We’re less enthusiastic about how the new(ish) kitchens look, but each to his own. The asking price for the 4,200-square-foot house is a “negotiable” $1,750,000. (Taxes are less than $2,000 a year!) How much negotiation do you think the seller will actually have to do to get this deal done?
64 Lefferts Place [Marcia Clark] GMAP P*Shark
9:04 That is more about the company you keep than anything else. I pay my taxes and don’t deal in stolen property or narcotics nor do I know anyone who does. I believe I fit your description as honest and I often work a 14hour day. I live just down the road from this house and I moved my family from the UWS.
There is a dynamic here that you are missing. The choices, in Brooklyn, for beautiful (and historic) family accomodation are limited. I recognise that Park Slope, Carol Gardens and other areas are also beautiful but for families wanting to go somewhere quiter still, both FG and CH are valid choices particularly if you are of a certain personality type.
My family did not have to leave Manhattan (we still own our condo on the UWS) we did not have to move to CH, we could afford PS or CG. The fact is I want to be part of change and I recognise what CH has become so far, and where it is going. I am not writing to boast (this is an anominous process). I feel sorry for those people in the area that have very little but I would say to them that anything is possible and you can create anything from nothing. The solution is not to bring everyone down it is to lift everyone up.
I can say from first hand experience of a very great man that I knew personaly – my father. He was the son of very poor immigrant farmers. They spoke very little english and were poorly educated. My father learnt not just English but 4 other languages as well, he educated himself in the hardest circumstances and became an attorney, he became vice-consul to the country of his parents and he never stopped helping people. He passed no money onto me, but he passed a belief that I could do anything if I work hard. He taught me never to give up and he taught me that all people are equal and that all people have potential. I am not smart or entitled and I am not better than one single person that I pass on the street each day, I just have a belief system that allows me to do anything.
Lovely block, great corner of the neighborhood. Price is a couple $100k too high (the same can be said for the rest of Brownstone Brooklyn.) It will sell, my guess $1.1 – $1.3 million.
^^^Mr. B, can’t you impose some sort of word limit on posts^^^
Can we get more dramatic, 9:04? Plenty of people with solid, legal incomes are interested in homes, even in “fringe” areas (hate that term). Just because you are not interested in living there, does not mean that others feel the same. This looks like a perfectly good house in a neighborhood with strong community activism, pride of place, and some really beautiful homes in a desireable location. I’m not going to damn the entire neighborhood because of an unfortunate and horrible crime, when 99% of the time nothing horrible, or even exciting happens. If everyone deserted a neighborhood because of a crime, there would be no one left in the entire city, because every neighborhood from the best to the worst, has had a horrific crime at one time or another.
To state that no one reputable could get a mortgage is nonsense. You seem to forget that most people come to the table with decent down payments, and the ability to pay for what they want, whether that is a million dollar plus home, or not. If someone’s credit is good, their finances in order, and they have their ducks lined up, they can get a mortgage. If that was not the case, this blog would be out of business as real estate would be dead in the water. Many “honest people”, as you call them, would jump at the chance to own a home, and this house and this block would be just fine for many.
– Montrose Morris
bxgrl forges her own username precisely so she can pose as a “victim” and whine. The regulars on this board have seen it time and again.
clinton hill would be another “white bread” nabe in 10 years.
Clinton Hill is a lovely neighborhood with beautiful brownstones and great people. I am glad that you guys think it is fringe. Stay away, we don’t want you there. As for those of you who been robbed, guess what, robberies happen all over new york. Maybe be a little cautious instead of stereotyping an entire community as “fringe” or not “respectable.” So is park slope, carroll gardens and the other such white bread neighbhorhooods the only “respectable” neighborhoods in Brooklyn? Why do I get a feeling that code words are being used here to say far more insidious things. Shame on you and please stay out of my “hood.”
signed,
young urban professional
Yeah, well, feeling safe isn’t just about walking down the street. It’s also about not having creepy idiots stalk you online. What kind of pathetic loser stalks someone on an internet messageboard about real estate anyways? Does his computer not run well enough to go stalk some night elf druid? I don’t mind the What, and the copy/paste troll is just annoying, but when stuff gets into the realm of personal attacks that are that personal — it’s not good.
I love nailing myself to a cross on this site when people call me out on my stupid behavior.
Of course, if you weren’t so stupid, you would be able to see right through my tween immaturity 🙂
– bxgrl