House of the Day: 207 Fenimore Street
When 207 Fenimore Street in Lefferts Manor first hit the market in February (when it was an Open House Pick), the detached frame house was asking $850,000. Now the single-family pad is asking $799,000. The house as a whole has a nice historic vibe, though we’re not loving some of the choices in the newly…
When 207 Fenimore Street in Lefferts Manor first hit the market in February (when it was an Open House Pick), the detached frame house was asking $850,000. Now the single-family pad is asking $799,000. The house as a whole has a nice historic vibe, though we’re not loving some of the choices in the newly renovated kitchen. Can someone who lives nearby speak to how nice this block is? How low can this go?
207 Fenimore Street [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP P*Shark
If PLG had a good school district this house would SO not be priced under a million dollars. Nor would any of the amazing housing stock here. This is a very family-oriented neighborhood, with tons of kids. It’s well organized with playgroups and new-moms groups. As for why we chose this neighborhood, we work from home and opted to buy a larger space for under a million and pay for a private K-5 (if we had to; many kids here do get into public schools elsewhere) rather than crunching ourselves into a smaller Park Slope condo priced under a million. I was actually open to considering that but the few options I saw in Park Slope for under a million didn’t give us nearly enough space. If we’d bought one of those places it would not have been a long term home and that’s what we were looking for.
Sorry, I really do know how to spell neighborhood. I just type too fast.
There is a wonderful pre-school in the neigborhood. It’s called the Maple Street School. I recently learned that some people involved with the Maple Street school are opening a new charter school in the neigborhood. It will be an elementary through middle school, if I heard correctly. This is huge for the neighborhood.
As far as coffee is concerned, try K-Dog. Everyone in the area goes there for coffee. It is also a community meeting place.
thanks for the information, everybody. Will probably spend some time wandering around out there this weekend…
The Associated super market is on Flatbush and Fenimore. It is as good if not better than the Key Food on Seventh Ave in Park Slope (we shopped both in the last couple of days) and the owner is very appreciative of customer feedback on missing items, etc. There is Kdog as well as a Duncan Donuts and another coffee shop within a couple of blocks. This isn’t Park Slope, but it is friendly and convenient and many blocks are quite lovely. We like it and many friends who do as well.
“I have friends in the area and they have a beautiful house but they are not very happy – mainly because of school issues. They find the local school abominable. I’ve not done the research – can anyone speak to this?”
I was just looking at the place and thinking how nice it looked and how reasonably priced it seemed and I thought “wonder what the schools are like?”
It would be a shame if such a nice place to raise a family in is located in a place that isn’t nice to raise a family in.
Many people own cars here but they hardly need to rely on them exclusively. It’s merely one stop on the B/Q to get to Park Slope or 15 minutes to Union Square.
FYI, a local grocery in PLG, Papa and Sons is about to open a second location that will carry more organic foods and he’s going to revamp the other location to resemble Union Market, he says. As for coffee, Kdog is a decent local coffee shop on Lincoln.
Miss Muffett’s friends’ experience is an example of why you should buy in a neighborhood because you like the way it is now, not because of what somebody tells you the neighborhood is going to be like in five years. But there are plenty of posters here who like Lefferts the way it is now.
I have friends in the area and they have a beautiful house but they are not very happy – mainly because of school issues. They find the local school abominable. I’ve not done the research – can anyone speak to this? They are also bummed out over lack of local business variety. They had hoped more new restaurants/retail would spring up but it’s been very slow so they find they are in their car much more than they’d like. But I know others who are happy there. Different strokes I guess.