House of the Day: 1232 Dean Street
This four-story house at 1232 Dean Street in Crown Heights just hit the market and, like so many houses in the area, has some killer architectural details. (In this case, it’s the wood paneling and built-ins that really impress.) Hopefully for the seller, this place will attract more interest than the next-door neighbor at 1230…
This four-story house at 1232 Dean Street in Crown Heights just hit the market and, like so many houses in the area, has some killer architectural details. (In this case, it’s the wood paneling and built-ins that really impress.) Hopefully for the seller, this place will attract more interest than the next-door neighbor at 1230 Dean Street, which we featured a year ago and is still on the market for $1,250,000. While we suspect there will be plenty of people who dig the house, we suspect that the price tag of $999,000 for a house in this neighborhood may be a tough sell in this economic environment.
1232 Dean Street [Halstead] GMAP P*Shark
Here ya go Montross! This is something for you to suck down!!
Smiling Faces Undisputed Truth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sV69WBvFGBA
Smiling faces sometimes pretend to be your friend
Smiling faces show no traces of the evil that lurks within
Smiling faces, smiling faces sometimes
They don’t tell the truth uh
Smiling faces, smiling faces
Tell lies and I got proof
The truth is in the eyes
Cause the eyes don’t lie, amen
Remember a smile is just
A frown turned upside down
My friend let me tell you
Smiling faces, smiling faces sometimes
They don’t tell the truth, uh
Smiling faces, smiling faces
Tell lies and I got proof
Beware, beware of the handshake
That hides the snake
I’m telling you beware
Beware of the pat on the back
It just might hold you back
Jealousy (jealousy)
Misery (misery)
Envy
I tell you, you can’t see behind smiling faces
Smiling faces sometimes they don’t tell the truth
Smiling faces, smiling faces
Tell lies and I got proof
Smiling faces, smiling faces sometimes
They don’t tell the truth
Smiling faces, smiling faces
Tell lies and I got proof
(Smiling faces, smiling faces sometimes)
(Smiling faces, smiling faces sometimes)
I’m telling you beware, beware of the handshake
That hides the snake
Listen to me now, beware
Beware of that pat on the back
It just might hold you back
Smiling faces, smiling faces sometimes
They don’t tell the truth
Smiling faces, smiling faces
Tell lies and I got proof
Your enemy won’t do you no harm
Cause you’ll know where he’s coming from
Don’t let the handshake and the smile fool ya
Take my advice I’m only try’ to school ya
The What
Someday this war is gonna end..
“The What simply wants to keep white and asian people out of traditional black neighborhoods. That is his whole Schtick. Apartheid preservation.
Poor guy.
Asshat extraordiniare.”
You see I don’t hide my disdain for people who just got here. The “white people” you talk about have a agenda. Gentrification is the problem! I wonder where all the interest came from? I will tell you, it’s called hot money poring into Asset classes. Did you know that Asshat Hill just got a Pizza Parlor and a Chinese Restaurant in 1999. During this time crime had fallen to record levels and the neighborhood got better. I did not see on Asshat during this time! From 2002 to now this city is infected with some of the most stuck-up, pertencious, smug Asshats the world has ever know. Long time residents of Greenpoint and Williamsburg (Who happen to be mostly white) was displaced from their neighborhoods so Muffy and Biffy can overpay to live next to a crackhouse!
This is the reason Asshats, you have ferked this city up. Let’s look at Atlantic Yards and Citypoint (formally Albee Square Mall). You and I know damn well these projects will never be built and all for the speculation will leave house abandoned for years to come !
So before you say that I’m a racist lets take a look at the Blog that is the harbinger of Racism! Cover Race/Class warfare takes place here everyday. You punks hide behind your keyboards accusing people of being Drug Dealers and Prostitutes! But when it’s time to “Man Up” you put your head down and take your behind home and don’t interact with your neighbors! You hide behind a veneer of niceness but deep down inside you want to steal their neighborhood away!
That’s why I do what I do. I view this whole thing (Brownstoner) an act of war!!!
2009 will be your “Waterloo” and I will be sitting by a tree watching the whole thing implode.
The What (Brooklyn’s Finest!!!!)
Someday this WAR is gonna end…
I like this house. My brownstone is 2-family, but my and my siblings families have free run of the place. As a “multi-generational” multi-family, I think this will go for between $850k-925k. My reasoning is: In this economic climate, whole/extended families will pull together to save on multiple mortgages and rents. Also, this house (from the pics) seems to be in good (not “realtor” good, but “I can move in now” good) condition and it’s under the million dollar mark unlike the house next door.
When will sellers learn that no one wants to pay the mansion tax??
Sam, thanks for the kind words, and I’d welcome you, and anyone else to the neighborhood who cared about the community, and was interested in being a vital part of it. Building anything worth keeping is hard work, and Crown Heights North is definitely worth it. It’s even better when we have such good stock to work with.
Montrose Morris,PBA
“Montrose Morris you are a pompous black Asshat!”
I will truly cherish this one. If I didn’t want to be anonymous, I’d put this on a tee shirt, and wear it proudly. I might do it anyway, and sell it. After I make piles of money, and buy all the great houses I’ve seen in Crown Heights, I can sit back in one of my mansions, on my very comfortable $20,000 leather Ralph Lauren tufted sofa I have my eye on, and say “Thanks, What.” I couldn’t have done it without YOU!
The What simply wants to keep white and asian people out of traditional black neighborhoods. That is his whole Schtick. Apartheid preservation.
Poor guy.
Asshat extraordiniare.
“Montrose Morris you are a pompous black Asshat! I would like to see how many of your new found friends have your back in the months ahead. Gentrification is Neo Colonialism!
The same people you cozy up with want to see every black person erased from your neighborhood but you are so full of your self, you can’t see it! Let”s see if the Asshats are going to float your “Comps” and keep your dream alive.”
Finally the What’s true personality comes out. Ranting, racist lunatic.
Maybe I’ll buy this house. I haven’t fixed up a house in four years. My wife will kill me. She is, unlike me, a native New Yorker who grew up under the strict rules of New York apartheid. Really, New York was as bad as South Africa in that sense. People are affected by the values of the times in which they grow up. She, we, have always felt that “over there” was not for people like us. But you know what? Things have changed. Why not buy in Crown Heights? It is so beautiful. Will many affluent persons under, say 35, have any qualms about buying in a mostly Black middle class community in years to come? What an interesting question right? I love this house, I love Montrosse and I really appreciate the effort that the community has made to improve their blocks -even to the extent of having the area landmarked. I mean, these are amazing days. Some see financial doom, I see such incredible new possibilities for Brooklyn.
Then again, you still have posts like RTW’s at 6.15. NOP