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
The only thing that remains is some coolness, hipster factor. A family would not care less for it.
Posted by: MaplewoodGuy at August 5, 2009 4:31 PM
Maybe not your family. Don’t talk for mine.
You’re right, Maplewood. The art coming out of South Orange is stellar.
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I raised my child in Brooklyn, sent her to private school, am now sending her to an Ivy League college, and did so spending well under a million bucks for a spacious garden duplex in one of the finest urban residential neighborhoods in the country
wow. do you want a medal for that? it’s mind boggling the elitism that some people have. BARF!
*rob*
I grew up in a working-class suburb (Hicksville, on Long Island). I had a stultifyingly boring childhood and a mediocre education. I know that my daughter’s education has been much better than mine was, and I am SO GLAD that she doesn’t have to endure the agony that was Hicksville Junior High School.
Actually the city cultural edge over any other place around here is minimal and overrated on this board.
There is no ART created here–just consuming. You can’t have art in million dollar houses. As far as consuming, since much art is digital nowadays it can be consumed anywhere.
The only thing that remains is some coolness, hipster factor. A family would not care less for it.
“WHAT WE ARGUE”? No, strange Mapley person, it’s what YOU argue. And you live in Jersey, so I really don’t understand what skin you have in this game. And you’re wrong, by the way: I raised my child in Brooklyn, sent her to private school, am now sending her to an Ivy League college, and did so spending well under a million bucks for a spacious garden duplex in one of the finest urban residential neighborhoods in the country. And you’re wrong on another count, by the way: I most certainly have commuted by train, hailing from — you guessed it! — the New Jersey suburbs originally. Tried it, didn’t like it, and I get plenty of work (i.e. reading) done on the subway. So spare me your judgments. “Families are priced out unless they sacrifice education, space, safety and/or commuting time,” you say. Sure, but there are other types of sacrifices to be made if opting for suburban life. It’s all a matter of taste, and proclivities, and priorities. To each his/her own.
one thing that annoys me is people who move into a city, any city really, and then toot their own horns saying how worldly they are are and how terrible the suburbs are and how their children are much more worldly and smart and beautiful because they are getting a city upbringing.
puh-lease.
*rob*
Sorry, Sloper, I mean, do you have just one child so you can afford your urban lifestyle? No judgement being passed at all, just curious if that is part of your plan, your way of balancing your needs and the child’s.
Park Sloper: no one denies that it is possible to rip benefits from raising a child in the city.
WHAT WE ARGUE is that it is impossible to do without spending a million+. Families are priced out unless they sacrifice education, space, safety and/or commuting time.