House of the Day: 225 Garfield Place
This brownstone at 225 Garfield Place in Park Slope was an Open House Pick on Friday but it clearly deserves the full House of the Day treatment. Exterior? Great. Location? Great? Gut renovation? Extensive and probably expensive. Does it work for you? More importantly, can it fetch the $2,290,000 asking price? 225 Garfield Place [Corcoran]…
This brownstone at 225 Garfield Place in Park Slope was an Open House Pick on Friday but it clearly deserves the full House of the Day treatment. Exterior? Great. Location? Great? Gut renovation? Extensive and probably expensive. Does it work for you? More importantly, can it fetch the $2,290,000 asking price?
225 Garfield Place [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
The Obama tax plan is making me reconsider whether I will get back in as an owner on NYC real estate. I am starting to think Obama is putting a ceiling on prices for many many years. If the masnion tax goes to 2.5 % which is an idea they are throwing around now, i WILL NEVER BUY
“Sad though, really.”
No, not at all. You don’t sound like a very balanced person to me. I think both you and NYC will be much better off when you’re living somewhere else.
No summer vacation on these threads.
I am shocked that the What hasn’t interjected his two cents into this one
… or has he?
11217… Wages are also down (or at least very flat)… unemployment is up… and every expense *other than* real estate is still going up.
Oh, thanks for the reiteration of my point, that’s why I can’t afford art and cultural events for the most part. $300 broadway tickets, $200 ballet tickets, even $20 for the Metropolitan Museum… Eeergh.
“I think it’s interesting that the desirable outcome for New York is that no one with an income under six-figures can actually live here comfortably”
The thing is…I know a ton of people who make what you make here (and I started out making 25K myself at my first job in NYC 9 years ago) and I NEVER hear people complain about it as much as you do.
The most fun things in life are surrounding yourself with people you enjoy and taking advantage of the simple things.
You seem to be unable to be happy without money and that means that you aren’t going to be happy in NYC…or wherever you live until that mindset changes.
I just had one of the best weekends ever…had some friends over, smoked some herb, took some amazing walks, cooked up some dinner, went to Brighton Beach, went to the Brooklyn Museum, played volleyball in Prospect Park.
I think I spent $60 the whole weekend.
“Really? Higher than the 70-94% rates imposed from 1936-1981”
Ditmas
Like I said people who make more then 500 are going to be taxed
like they have never seen before. The increaese are huge! They are already talking about raising the mansion tax as well.
“but I’m hopeful that city dwellers would welcome a kid in their 1st grade class who may be ill-prepared when they arrive at school thru no fault of their own. there are families in crisis all over this town, and it would be both ironic and depressing if they were considered somehow “less” in a place like Park Slope.”
Ringo, I don’t think “less” is the accurate term, but realistically these ‘crisis’ have little chance of being overcome through our school system – it is simply not possible in many cases; the “family life/culture” is too dysfunctional to ever be able to be overcome in a ‘normal’ school situation (sad but true) – and it frankly makes no sense to do the “politically” correct thing and try to accommodate this population on the backs of the students that are in-fact prepared. (not that I am saying that they should be abandoned – but to just stick these kids in normal classes does nothing for anyone and in fact compounds the problem.)
fsrq is a complete twat, so i’m no longer going to engage. he knows very well I’m ‘comprehending’ — he just doesn’t like my responses.
However, ENY, while you are right… I probably should leave… I think it’s interesting that the desirable outcome for New York is that no one with an income under six-figures can actually live here comfortably… or enjoy any of the fee-based “amenities.” (yes, there are various free things in the city… not talking about that stuff)
I guess I should either figure out how to magically make more than 6-figures or leave…. since I’m working for the city’s second or third largest employer and only a tiny fraction at the highest levels scrape together over $100k… this is more baffling.
So, yeah, probably begin working on my exit strategy. Sad though, really.