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
You people make it sound like being close to drug activity is a bad thing, where else but on 4th ave can you get 4 radial tires, a car stereo and a bag of heroin.
All from the same Puerto Rican.
I know people w/ small kids on that block who are quite happy there. When they were considering it I said: the block may change but the PJs aren’t going anywhere. Seems to have worked out OK for them.
Re: concrete backyard — I’m sure you could get cheap illegal immigrant labor to haul out the jackhammered rubble and then turn it back in to a garden.
I know that block quite well, the brownstones are 20 X 60 (very deep) with 40 foot yards. Four floors (including english basement).
The violence and other issues have fallen tremendously over th eyears, and the block itself has a lot of young proffesionals on it.
There are two brownstones in the middle of the block that must have rent control/stabilized tenants, and they had people hanging out in front of them, but one was boarded up, so thats almost gone away, next to third is another of these buildings. rents are between 1800 and 2400 for a floor (ive known people in several differnt buildings on the block).
There continues to be people hanging out near third avenue, and drug traffic has diminshed significantly but is still present. The price is definitly right, i wonder if itll come down more.
THAT building has a completely concrete backyard, which is a shame because the lots adjacent have gardens.
If it acts like the What and it sounds like the What then…
End of an era. Get wise –places like this will be selling for 250/k, and I’m not kidding, in three years.
Oh no, that building isn’t close to the projects at all, in fact the majority of the residents of the projects are upstanding citizens they just need a hug.
This block was closed down to traffic a few years ago with cop cars at either end. I recall there being a few shootings in short period of time. I don’t even think it’s project issues, but maybe some of the residents of that block. I grew up in the PJ’s albeit a pretty safe one, so it just depends which projects you live by. We still live in Brooklyn, so keep your wits about you. Some streets you don’t go down.
As an aside, I have found betancourt to tend to overprice listings in most cases. In this case, I am not sure because I have never been on this block. If it was on ok block and the house is in decent shape, then i’d say its fair, but my guess is betancourt aimed high. has anyone had similar experiences?
11217, its objective observation, the ‘wrongness’ is simply your own personal reaction. faithful asked why i thought the kids were from the projects. in that neighborhood, a block away from the projects, dressed in baggies and smashing things, its a reasonable deduction to make.
curious as to your sensitivities.