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
bklpepbe – many of those schools will offer zero diveristy though, which (to put a simple label on it) is why many people live in the city and not in Scarsdale.
Its not a “hardship” to spend $35K A KID to send your kid to private school if you make 500K a year but 1. Its not like you can live in NYC anywhere for FREE – so the marginal cost of a $2M brownstone isnt $2M. and 2. There maybe FAR better uses for the money than sending a kid to private school – 35K*6=$210,000 per kid (more if you consider the present value of money) – which might be better spent (if there is a good public school) on -for example SAVINGS, so for example if you lose your job, your arm, or your life. 3. Many kids CANT get into private school – anyhow.
So you can make it like (paraphrasing Tybur6 dumb posts) – ‘these rich people don’t give a $hit about the public school because they will send their brats to private school without even a 2nd thought”
But you’d be wrong – you better be making alot more than 500K if you think 35k a year PER KID isnt significant spending worthy of serious consideration.
more4less, Chinatown is way overpriced.
more4less I’m too lazy too look up the rankings – how does it do?
guess I’ll just go rent a room in Chinatown so I can enroll my kid in PS 124 and save myself so $$$ and retire early
fsrq… Are you that much of a twat?
let’s take a ‘family’ making $500k. They’re take-home income is what? Say, $275,000 per year!? After you take out the $70,000 for junior and juniorette… you have TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS to work with for your other expenses.
So, fsrq, since you understand so much better than I…. You can’t possibly make it work for $200,000 a year?!
I am very comfortable sticking with the notion that folks making $500,000+ per year have absolutely NO problem with the tuition bill…. i.e., the folks that are in the market for a $2 million house don’t have to worry about schools.
11217:
whatever! from the rankings it is clear that Park Slope schooling is nothing exceptional and certainly not a reason to move there
BKLPLEBE:
Welcome to Brownstoner!
I see these are your first two posts ever on this website.
Way to start off with a lot of misinformation and trash talking!
You’ll fit in just fine.
dittoburg
incorrect the good schools in ny state are not in buffalo. They are in NYC and suburbs: westchester, long island. SO there are actually 150 BETTER alternatives in public schools