House of the Day: 280 Lefferts Avenue
We can’t say for sure how much the market has risen in this part of Prospect Lefferts Gardens in the last three years, but we doubt the answer is as high as 70 percent. That’s that the owners of 280 Lefferts Avenue—which traded for $430,000 in 2005—are shooting for with their asking price of $724,000….
We can’t say for sure how much the market has risen in this part of Prospect Lefferts Gardens in the last three years, but we doubt the answer is as high as 70 percent. That’s that the owners of 280 Lefferts Avenue—which traded for $430,000 in 2005—are shooting for with their asking price of $724,000. The three-story, two-family house itself has some nice bones, though the kitchen, bathroom, back yard and front door aren’t going to win any bonus points. What can the PLG’ers out there tell us about this block?
280 Lefferts Avenue [Ahrlty.com] GMAP P*Shark
traditionalmod:
My house is exactly the same as you describe. If you stand on the curb you should be able to gauge fairly accurately if your basement is more than 50% above grade.
i would only buy one of those houses on lefferts ave if it was between rogers and bedford. the block isn’t as nice between rogers and nostrand. there’s a lot more trees on the west side of rogers.
still, it’s a great neighborhood. sterling, the block above is even nicer. for strange reason, sterling between rogers and flatbush isn’t part of the historical perimeter.
i would only buy one of those houses on lefferts ave if it was between rogers and bedford. the block isn’t as nice between rogers and nostrand. there’s a lot more trees on the west side of rogers.
still, it’s a great neighborhood. sterling, the block above is even nicer. for strange reason, sterling between rogers and flatbush isn’t part of the historical perimeter.
That’s interesting, geekspice, about how the city measures grade for English basements. I’ve wondered that before, because our windows are short and small, not normal size windows like a garden level, BUT there is a big cement platform at the front of our house and when you look at the tops of the windows they’re pretty far above the level of the sidewalk.
In some of these houses (including mine in PLG) it is actually legal to live in the English basement. Grade is measured from curb height in most cases. However this house has no C of O so you can’t be sure whether the current setup is legal. It is listed as a 2-family with DOB though.
I do agree this looks overpriced. This is a decent but not great block; the house has some of the original charm but the kitchen and bath are do-overs; and then there’s the legalization issue. Although I do appreciate that they didn’t sink money into granite counters and recessed lighting. 🙂
I spent over 3 hours in Kings Country ER recently. I ended up leaving and going to an ER in Manhattan where I was seen immediately. But my injury, while bad, was not life threatening.
It’s not really accurate to lump Kings County and Downstate together. Downstate is a State University teaching hospital that is in an entirely different league. Unfortunately [except, as Brenda points out, for major trauma] the ER is at Kings County.
If you have a great big horrible life-threatening emergency, especially GSW, Kings County ER is actually where you want to be; more experience makes for better care. I took a friend in dire respiratory distress to their ER years ago and it was incredible, like an ER episode (minus the explosions) rather than the usual torpid ER pace of reality in most hospitals. However, once they patch you up, you most definitely want OUTTA there…
Oh please, I have lived in PLG for decades and have never gone to Kings County Hospital for emergency health care. That’s probably also because I’ve never needed hospitalization for major trauma. Severe trauma cases from all over the borough can get sent to Kings County, not just those folk who live in PLG, East Flatbush and surrounding neighborhoods.
One of the real worries about living here is that in case of a health emergency, you will be taken to Down State/Kings County hospital, one of the worst hospitals in the city. Like Thunderdome, “two go in, one comes out”
It is an indictment of the racist american health care system.
beware.