House of the Day: 1094 Park Place

montrose – nearby foreclosures are extremely meaningful b/c they lower lender appraisals thereby making mortgages more expensive.

Let’s clear up some misconceptions, here.

Owners put the house on sale because of having to relocate for career reasons. They really would have wanted to stay, so it must have been the employment opportunity of a lifetime. They were in the middle of constructing the wine cellar in the basement. This is definately NOT a flip job.

While you can see the tops of the Albany Houses from here, they are scarcely “around the corner”. People are assuming that the AH are right next door, and that is not the case. They are no closer to this house than some houses in Boerum Hill, which sell for much more, and are not half the house this is.

To the right of this house is a gorgeous synagogue turned church, to the left is the beginning of a row of limestones. This block, although it begs for some trees, is very quiet and safe, and is also a part of an extremely watchful and active block association. To assume that thugs from the park, or anywhere else, are just lurking like wolves ready to pounce, is a tad alarmist and paranoid. There is constant traffic on Kingston, which is on a bus route, and the area is boringly quiet.

DOW, I find your assertion that an owner could not feel safe walking around the corner to be absolutely ridiculous, and not based on fact. And the fact that there are bars on the windows is also a red herring. I would bet every reader with a ground floor room has bars on the window, why should this house be held to a different standard. Those bars in all of the brownstones in Bklyn weren’t put on yesterday, they were put on almost 100 years ago. The implication that thugs from the park, or anywhere else, are just waiting to pounce the minute you step out into the street is alarmist claptrap. Kingston Avenue is well traveled, a busy bus route, and the whole area is boringly quiet. I wish people would actually go somewhere and see what they are talking about before spouting off on the safety of places they are unfamiliar with. This block is part of a multiblock block association which is extremely active, vigilant and aware.

The fact that yesterday’s forclosure house is a block away is also meaningless. Does that mean that the house in Ditmas Park that was foreclosed on a couple of months ago renders Ditmas Park an unfit neighborhood? Let’s cut the double standards, here. FWIW, that foreclosure block is a very stable, vital block, with a strong community commitment to maintain it as such. A foreclosure, especially where there may have been some short sale funny business, can happen anywhere.

The fact that this house is move in ready, an architectural gem on a large plot of land, in a location that is just fine, makes it worthy of the price. I don’t say that often, I am very conservative about Crown Heights prices. But I’ve been in the house, and in the neighborhood, and I think it is an insult to offer $800K like this is some gut job SRO. This house is worth $1.2 million dollars, and I have no doubt someone will agree with me, and buy it.
To the right of this house is a gorgeous synagogue turned church, to the left is the beginning of a row of limestones. This block, although it begs for some trees, is very quiet and safe, and is also a part of an extremely watchful and active block association. To assume that thugs from the park, or anywhere else, are just lurking like wolves ready to pounce, is a tad alarmist and paranoid. There is constant traffic on Kingston, which is on a bus route, and the area is boringly quiet.

DOW, I find your assertion that an owner could not feel safe walking around the corner to be absolutely ridiculous, and not based on fact. And the fact that there are bars on the windows is also a red herring. I would bet every reader with a ground floor room has bars on the window, why should this house be held to a different standard. Those bars in all of the brownstones in Bklyn weren’t put on yesterday, they were put on almost 100 years ago.

The fact that yesterday’s forclosure house is a block away is also meaningless. Does that mean that the house in Ditmas Park that was foreclosed on a couple of months ago renders Ditmas Park an unfit neighborhood? Let’s cut the double standards, here. FWIW, that foreclosure block is a very stable, vital block, with a strong community commitment to maintain it as such. A foreclosure, especially where there may have been some short sale funny business, can happen anywhere.

odd that the kitchen was renovated with high end appliances but such dull countertops and sink fixtures with no undermount sink.

bxgirl you do your neighborhood no favors by saying that many people have never set foot in it.
Those words: never set foot in….bring a lot of meaning with them.
Why have people not set foot there? is it too distant? no.
Is it difficult to get there? no.
Is it considered unsafe and unsavory? bingo!

From now on you should write things like …as more and more people are experienceing the many advantages of the neighborhood….or…. as more people are discovering our well-kept secret…..y’know, spin it positive.
People are not stupid, if they don’t go there it’s gotta be for a reason. you don’t want newcomers (like the apocryphal Manhattn couple selling their 2-bedroom apartment) to know that.

FYI- the family that restored the house was a Black family, not someone renovating simply to flip.