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
Not just fed. taxes that are meant to be increasing, NYS taxes too.
people who make more then 500 are going to be taxed like they have never seen before. Credit Suise had a great report on the effect that the Obama taxes will have on NYC RE.
fsrq, same to you buddy. You boiled down all of my posts to an absurd degree… so I did the same with your response.
You are right, though. I don’t understand the lifestyle and requirements of the wealthy… and you, apparently, have no idea what it’s like to live in NYC knowing it’s becoming less and less of a possibility everyday. I am a ‘professional’ and make a decent wage, but this city is absurd and all of the arguments by the wealthy that have created this market make me angry.
Yes, it’s folks like fsrq and 11217 that *defend* the marketplace and exacerbate the ever increasing expenses of this city with comments like “it’s all part of living in New York” and “New York is expensive” and “you’re out of touch because you don’t know how hard it is to be rich in NYC” etc etc.
I think i’m actually the type of person you’d want in your neighborhood… stable job, good credit rating, no perverted habits involving fire… but I don’t see a long term future here. I wish that wasn’t the case. It’s because studio apartments at $1800 are being *defended* and folks making $500k a year are being characterized as having to be very very conscious of where the put their money… I am VERY conscious of where my money goes. And I don’t have much of a margin each month, not really an issue of deciding whether or not Junior should go to public or private school.
(as a side note, I like how this board has a lot of mention of people ‘working in the arts’ — there was at least one mention of it on this thread today — but these folks always seem to make HUNDREDS of thousands of dollars… I’m starting to realize quickly why I can’t actually take advantage of all of the cultural and art opportunities this city has to offer… it’s money!!)
Anyway the Park Slope school is nothing exceptional and all this discussion was about this comment
“Would have to agree, Tyburg. But I guess someone will put down 50 percent or something like that. Remember: The schools!”
Unfortunately it’s not the schools. Find some other reason.
What’s the lower left photo that looks like a basement? I can’t figure that out. If it’s the windowless middle bedroom, then the other room it looks into should have a window and a door. It’s creepy looking.
Besides many people appreciate selective diversity in schools – as in, while I’d like my kids to learn to exist in a school/world with many different cultures, outlooks etc…I’d prefer that they not be forced to learn with kids who are ill prepared to learn, are disruptive, violent or otherwise detract (rather than enhance) the learning experience. That seems to be a much more important consideration in terms of “diversity” then simply matching wide racial classifications across meaningless boundaries (nabe, city, state, nation, planet)
My spelling is appalling today.
“Diverse enough to feel good about yourselves”
I think you might be missing the point about diversity.
And why does it have to be an exact facsimile of brooklyn’s demographic make-up? Simply attributing diversity along racial lines, while a forgivable American error, is missing the point. The white children at my daughter’s school (at least the ones she is friends with) are Russian, French, Norwegian and Greek. There is diveristy of outlook, experience, and approach simply within that group. NYC offers that diveristy, 40% of its population was not even born in the US.
To be honest a white kid, a black kid and a hispanic who were born in NYC and grew up on the LES might probably aren’t offering so much diversity at all.
Tybur6 I see your reading comprehension is as limited as your writing skills.