House of the Day: 439 East 19th Street
We’re liking the look of this single-family house at 439 East 19th Street in Ditmas Park—the original built-ins and coffered ceilings are stunning. The 2,800-square-foot house changed hands in 2002 for $775,000 and just hit the market now for $1,249,000. That comes out to about $450 per square foot, less than what this house a…
We’re liking the look of this single-family house at 439 East 19th Street in Ditmas Park—the original built-ins and coffered ceilings are stunning. The 2,800-square-foot house changed hands in 2002 for $775,000 and just hit the market now for $1,249,000. That comes out to about $450 per square foot, less than what this house a couple of blocks away recently sold for.
[Brooklyn Hearth] GMAP P*Shark
Townhouse lady, I think you may have misunderstood the point I was trying to make to DIBS (or perhaps I didn’t express it clearly). Most of my gay friends who have moved to NYC from elsewhere in the country did so because there is a certain freedom here, and a certain culture and energy, that you find in few other places. Similarly, many people (like myself, who grew up mostly in the suburbs) who choose to raise their kids in the city do so because there is great value to the daily exposure to the energy, diversity, culture, etc. that only life in the big city can offer. I’m sure your parents did what they could to expose you (as did mine) to all of these good things, but I honestly don’t think it’s the same as *living* here. If I’m not mistaken, I believe you are a parent (or a prospective parent, renovating a townhouse to raise your family in), so even though you grew up in the suburbs, it sounds like you’ve made a similar choice.
Telling me to expand my horizons, suggesting that I think one cannot process a thought without giving birth, is more insulting than you might imagine….
it’s also tough raising a dog!!! some weeks i need to buy the cheapie dog food and sometimes i can manage to buy the premium. perhaps i just dont have what it takes to survive in nyc! hahah
*rob*
This is really the kind of crap you ONLY hear in NYC and its what makes New Yorkers distasteful and ugly to the rest of the country.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at August 5, 2009 5:04 PM
I suspect actually that this whole blog would be seen as distasteful and ugly to the rest of the country especially in view of the real estate prices 🙂
And I agree with both of you that it is expensive to raise a child properly in NYC.
No, I don’t know your child Park Sloper but why did you even bring him/her into the discussion anyway. Every NYC parent thinks their child is sophisticated.
Besides, sophisticated is A. a matter of opinion and B. relative. I’m sure if we got a group of self-centered NYC parents together they could all out-argue each other as to how sophisticated their respective children were.
This is really the kind of crap you ONLY hear in NYC and its what makes New Yorkers distasteful and ugly to the rest of the country.
I’m sorry for picking on you and your son but this is a pet peeve of mine and you opened the door. Don’t take it personally.
Park Sloper,
While I understand what you are trying to say I really think that you are misguided as as a result more insulting than you might imagine.
You could have raised your daughter in the burbs and come out with the same result. It’s all a matter of what you expose them to. I grew up in the burbs and my folks made sure that we were exposed to all of the same that you wished for and gave to your child.
I also don’t think that being gay and having or not having kids has anything to do with understanding this. You can process a thought without having given birth.
Try to expand your horizons a little.
“well a couple with one child and a median income cannot raise a kid in the city without serious compromises nowadays.”
Hey, Maple Guy, I agree with you!
It really is the larger family issue… When my older ones fly the coop, we may well return with just the little one (far younger than the others) in tow. But at that point, I would be following Sloper’s model.
I don’t really care if i have a higher IQ or not but if I had a better paying job I’d live in a townhouse on Bloomberg’s block, or the Jennifer Connolly mansion but the latter would kinda be slumming it, much akin to this discussion about DP vs. MW.