House of the Day: 29 Maple Street
29 Maple Street isn’t as charming on the outside as a lot of other houses in Prospect Lefferts Gardens but the interior has a lot of charm. The private driveway is a serious bonus, as is the third exposure it creates on the side of the house which results in tons of sunlight. The house…
29 Maple Street isn’t as charming on the outside as a lot of other houses in Prospect Lefferts Gardens but the interior has a lot of charm. The private driveway is a serious bonus, as is the third exposure it creates on the side of the house which results in tons of sunlight. The house traded for $595,000 in 2004. Now it’s asking $899,000. Let’s go to the pricing widget…
29 Maple Street [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP P*Shark
bklynista – I will print out this post and make hubbie drive us around the areas you just mention, so I get a better feel from it.
I might be fighting a battle that’s the wrong one….
am blonde-so forgive me 🙂
Its ignorant. Because there were white people on Flatbush Avenue 10 years ago. Your husband is filling you with false perceptions. The stores don’t only cater to West Indians. Its not all black and white. There have always been white families in this neighborhood from the day the Dutch farm got sold and developers started building. And even before that obviously. Sorry, but your “facts” are wrong and you shouldn’t quote a husband that says something about a neighborhood he never lived in and take it as fact just because he is black. He is still wrong. Yes there are more black folks than white folks here, so what. But its not absolute and it was never a 100% black neighborhood. And as a matter of “fact” if you look at a NYC census map, there is not one neighborhood that is 100% anything. Breezy Point is the whitest neighborhood in NYC and they are not 100%. whew……i am done
Gemini, maybe I’m misreading your posts but. . . PLG is the first community of Flatbush. Starting at the northern perimeter (and beginning at the southern base of the BBG), it runs from Empire Boulevard south to Parkside Avenue. Going from west to east, it run from Ocean Avenue (at Prospect Park) over to New York Avenue. So, when you are on Flatbush Ave “from Parkside on down,” or marveling the gorgeous homes on Beverly Road, you are not in PLG! 🙂 Just come on over to the House Tour and bring hubbie along!
Why is my comment ignorant(other than my mispelling)?
my husband who is black made that comment and he’s right – 10 years ago you wouldn’t see white folks just roaming around on Flatbush Avenue down in that stretch- sorry it’s not ignorant it’s fact!
am over there weekly now and I still don’t see that many white folks as I do black folks – I am just stating a fact. The stores on Flatbush Avenue cater to the West Indian community, from Parkside on down so what?
Well, BRG, 75 Fenimore, an identical house in less good shape on a slightly less-nice block, sold a year ago for 877k.
http://bstoner.wpengine.com/brownstoner/archives/2008/02/house_of_the_da_456.php
Of course that was before the meltdown. So figure whatever percentage drop you like into your estimation, but you can understand why they picked this price as an ask. But everything I know of in PLG that has sold in the last few months has gone for 15% below ask. Like this one:
http://bstoner.wpengine.com/brownstoner/archives/2008/09/house_of_the_da_571.php
I say low 800s takes it.
PLG HOUSE TOUR is May 31st
This quote is VERY funny,
“all the white people” around on Flatbush and comments if this was 10 years ago you would never seem them over here.”
Another ingnorant statement for many reasons and untrue (as Bob Marvin can attest to). But lets take it further. You could definately had made that statement in reverse 45 years ago. Jackie Robinson played baseball in this neighborhood and was not allowed to buy a house here!! nyc neighborhoods are organic and have changed from generation to generation..Park Slope was a Puerto Rican neighborhood once you know!
I will definitely try to attend the PLG tour this year.
I’ll also try to get over there (it’s one whole stop on the Q!) and just wander. 🙂
11217 – I agree. That 1mm+ vote is crazy.
Maybe there should be some sort of system where you throw out the highest and lowest bids on the widget…
Really…someone voted a million?? Someone actually thinks that in 2009, this house is going to go 100K over ask?
Come on now.
Bklynista – ok I would like to check it out
I go there weekly for West Indian food etc – so am familiar with the nabe and marvel at the gorgeous homes on Beverly Rd etc when driving through to Flatbush Ave