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
Comfort comes with exposure, for me. There are areas of prospect heights for example where the first time I walked through them I was like “this is kinda sketchy” and now that I know them, I wonder what in the hell I was thinking.
Having never been to PLG, I don’t really know how I feel about it. I’m just trying to judge the house based on what it cost the owner and what it theoretically should be worth after five years of appreciation. 🙂
11217-i don’t think you compromise ‘comfort’. some people have different comfort levels. i feel 100% comfortable in PLG and i am there alot. i feel less comfortable in PS b/c i think the people are rude and unfriendly. So even if i had 2M to spend on a brownstone, PS would be by far my last choice of nabes. i never go there for any reason. i have been to a few cool resturants over there but i could totally live without ever visiting.
just a thought.
Agreed Wasder
we all kept it civil and thought-provoking!
“Some guy lurking in the shadows and casting aspersions”
You sure that wasn’t DIBS?
“All things considered though this has been a pretty thoughtful and non-confrontational discussion of this kind of thing. Well done on everyone’s part”.
Indeed it is WASDER!
> “I’ve never been referred to as such in my own neighborhood.”
I have. Right on Fifth Avenue one evening. Some guy lurking in the shadows and casting aspersions. It didn’t really faze me, but it bugged my bf. I figure unless somebody is getting aggressive, I’m not going to sweat it.
While there are probably only a handful of neighborhoods in the country where a gay person would feel more comfortable than Park Slope, I’m glad that many people (gay, interracial, whatever) are braving it in PLG. They may be indicator species of gentrification (and all the conflicted emotions related to that), but even more they are a sign of increasing tolerance.
As for the pricing, the market will bear it out one way or the other. A slightly larger two story on the next block of maple, sans garage, closed this week for 999k, as did a three story just outside the HD for 999k.
It’ll be interesting to see if two identical houses with identical asks end up going for similar prices.
I guess the point of my story is that I’m not willing to plunk down 900K (if I could even afford it) to be called a fag walking to the subway (which is what happened last time I was in PLG about a month ago).
I’ve never been referred to as such in my own neighborhood.
And it’s a coincidence that these areas might be more heavily African American because I do not consider myself racist in the least. In fact, my friend who lives in PLG is African American and she doesn’t love it either. Coincidentally…she has a white boyfriend and I’ve walked down the street with them many times and witnessed people making off color remarks. She’s a renter and has a good deal, so she puts up with it…rightly so…it’s hard to find decent cheap housing, but if she could she would not stay.
With all that being said…there are obviously many more people on this thread who don’t feel like I do (maybe I’m overly sensitive…I don’t know), so I have to assume I’m in the minority on this issue. I will continue going to visit and enjoy PLG, but a move there for me in probably not in the cards.
gemini–its funny but my friends in Lefferts are an inter-racial couple as well…
All things considered though this has been a pretty thoughtful and non-confrontational discussion of this kind of thing. Well done on everyone’s part.