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
ah! “diversity”! my pet peeve when it comes to schools.
321 is what my teacher-friend calls “Park Slope Diverse” meaning more than half white (according to that times piece, 64% white). Diverse enough to feel good about yourselves while being quite a bit less diverse than Brooklyn itself (41% white in 2000). Part of the secret to the school’s success is that there isn’t a housing project in it’s zone. So no kids living in crisis to potentially bring down the numbers or scare away Fiona’s parents.
Anyway, my pet peeve as I say. Otherwise 321 is a terrific school tho I’m not sure it has the pull it used to have for two reasons: (1) it’s really very crowded and getting more crowded and (2) in the meantime, a dozen other schools in “brownstone brooklyn” have stepped it up and emerged as legitimate options to 321.
Nice looking house.
more4less — Chinatown is one of the Manhattan neighborhoods that is cheaper than the more popular neighborhoods of Brooklyn.
I was being snide and implying that even though it is cheap it is not cheap enough.
Chinatown falls solidly into my ‘nice place to visit’ column.
“if you look at the top ten list some of these schools are as diverse as park slope. For example, the top school in the NYT list (great neck) has less whites than park slope.”
That doesn’t mean it’s more diverse. And since the school has 400 fewer students, no it doesn’t have “less whites than park slope.”
First of all, Lakeville School in Great Neck has 856 students compared to 1223 at PS. 321.
Lakeville is 57% white, 2% black, 6% hispanic and 35% Asian.
PS. 321 is 64% white, 15% black, 14% hispanic and 7% Asian.
Judging by what I know about the demographics of the United States of America, the school in Great Neck sounds a lot more “white” to me compared to what really exists in the U.S…
13% black
15% hispanic
4% Asian
I got off my belly and looked it up. 93rd percentile. Not bad, considering its 61% poor. (PS 321 is 12% poor). My daughter’s school is apparently “100%” poor and ranked 90th percentile.
Ditto, I often hear ps 124 is pretty good, etc. so was assuming a school of chinese immigrants hungry for success in this great country should yield some great results. too lazy to look it up too. am assuming it close to ps 321.
N’Slope, overpriced? who knows but would bet its less overpriced then prime BK hoods. Super safe hood, cheap food, great transportation,… think I just convinced myself to think this over a little bit more seriously
More4less, that’s a great idea. If Hunter doesn’t work out, I’m getting a pied-a-terre in Chinatown.
I agree, new cherry cabinets for the kitchen is more important than your children’s education. The “better uses” for your money argument sort of fall short….
dittoburg:
why do you say that?
if you look at the top ten list some of these schools are as diverse as park slope. For example, the top school in the NYT list (great neck) has less whites than park slope.
Very good point, Ditto.