House of the Day: 18 St. Marks Place
If you’re not someone who puts much weight on a house’s historic details, this house at 18 St. Marks Place in Boerum Hill (?) might present an interesting opportunity to get a piece of the rock. The three-family brownstone is listed for just $1,259,000 and has two income-generating units in addition to the owner’s duplex….
If you’re not someone who puts much weight on a house’s historic details, this house at 18 St. Marks Place in Boerum Hill (?) might present an interesting opportunity to get a piece of the rock. The three-family brownstone is listed for just $1,259,000 and has two income-generating units in addition to the owner’s duplex. Do you think this looks like a reasonable buy?
18 St. Marks Place [Betancourt] GMAP P*Shark
Please look around first. 47 St Marks Pl was sold on June 2008 for only 950K. It is a bigger and nicer house, it is also closer to 4th Ave rather than the projects.
I didn’t know that the real estate market appreciated in the last few months during the credit crunch and the stock market meltdown.
After years in the real estate business, I find betancourt more than exagerating. I think this is a 950K property.
I know this block well; my family and I have lived here 16 years. Although I have always liked it here, I can agree with some of the comments that the block has had its problems over the years. For the most part these problems have stemmed from one house, which was city-owned, and was recently taken over by the 5th Avenue committee. That particular house has been blessedly vacant for six months or so, and the block association has been assured that the dealers that lived there are not coming back.
When that particular house became vacant, it was as if the block had changed overnight from the ghetto to Sesame Street, with kids of all races drawing with chalk on the sidewalk together. It’s funny how one building can cause so much trouble. If you haven’t been here for a while, your impressions are outdated.
It’s a close knit block, too. Everybody knows everybody, which I think is rather unusual for a neighborhood in Brownstone Brooklyn with a lot of rentals. Recently, one of the residents became ill, and half the block visited him while he was in the hospital.
The other day, one of my neighbors swept my stoop when he saw that sanitation was ticketing. Saved me a ticket.
We have an older latina woman who sits on her stoop all day, and hugs everyone on the way to work or school.
You get the picture. It’s hard to judge from a casual drive by.
Wow! didn’t realize how many racists folks were on this forum. If you are looking to live only with white people maybe you should try North Dakota.
New York is diversified, it has been for hundreds of years. To make comments about kids that dress a certain way and are of a particular “race”, and lump them into a category IS subjective and entirely racist. The people living in the projects are not all dangerous, they all are living at a poverty level that I’m assuming none of you have experienced (I actually have)and have little choice as to where they live.
I was born and raised in New York in the 70’s and have watched this city make huge changes for the better, but the only disturbing change I’ve watched is non-new yorkers making claims to neighborhoods and passing judgement on those who have lived there their whole lives and trying to decide if they are willing to live among “these people”and pricing the native neighbors out of their own neighborhoods.
Re. true to form, see his nasty response to someone asking about a hearth cover on the forum today.
“ungentlemanly” – are you saying that with a straight face? The twat didn’t make a single screed without some hateful comment or a dismissive reference to asshats or you can suck my etc. His bile was almost tangible even over this medium. And most responses to him merely made fun of him without being rude or just dismissed him as a crank.
One earns respect, one isn’t given it automatically, and one can lose it instantly.
In his spitting anger he completely ignored that many posters here renting or waiting to get into the market are quite happy to see house prices tank.
The shit does seem to be hitting the fan guys, how much longer will squeeky-clean preppy types put down heavy cash on houses in very, very un-preppy environments? How long will their wives and children let them? Listen, I love the fact that South Africa-style apartheid is breaking down in Brooklyn, I love that white families are moving to Bed Stuy and Black families are moving to Brooklyn Heights, but the houses in the more dangerous and less genteel areas should not be commesurate in price with houses in Darien, Connecticut or Rye, New York. That is nuts.
It is wackadoodle-insane. Much of brownstone Brooklin has more in common with Newark, NJ or Detroit MI. than Rye NY, Why are people paying Rye prices for Newark blocks? My feeling is that it is because they are nuts.
Nikkei down ten per cent at the open. If we really, fully and finally crash tomorrow, I’m going to the party.
If it acts like a jackass, and talks like a jackass…hey, Dave. What part of cataclysm do you not understand? Get it through your head: We are in inning one of the biggest deflationary blow-off in history. Keep it up, but as long as you do, so will I. I find it utterly hilarious you dead enders planned a party to celebrate how wrong The What was, and now you have to go through with it, even though he called the tsunami, and down the line. So ungracious are you in defeat, you won’t even give the man his due. Ungentlemanly, to say the least. This is an Ibsen play, to make a reference that will fly right by you.
Bklnight….the folks I know on that block also have two very small kids. They’ve lived on that block since 2003 and love it there. They moved from the Upper West Side and say they’ve never looked back. To each his/her own.