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
usound like a good dad parksloper, hope my earlier posts werent too abrasive.
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I just realized I’ve been calling you Antiterrorist instead of Architerrorist! 🙂
Trust me – there is no “perfect.”
Maplewood guy, Can’t say I agree with you about the schools in your town. We considered it, but were turned off by the low performing public schools.
CGfan, I fully acknowledge the contradiction. I always intended to send her to public school, but we had such a disappointing kindergarten experience that we pulled her out and put her in private school instead. But she’s grown up with exposure to a diverse group of families, most of whom sent their kids to public school, or to some mix of public and private over the years. We all struggle to make it work, and I’m not saying it’s easy, or that there aren’t compromises to be made for everyone.
Park Sloper, I have to say it seems a bit disingenuous to talk about how worldly and sophisticated your child is while acknowledging that you sent her to a private school costing $25,000/year. I’d prefer my child to be exposed to all kinds of kids, and school is where most of that takes place. If your only exposure is families who can afford private, with the few scholarship kids (and families on financial aid who make more than $150,000/year) your child got a very warped view of this country, Brooklyn, and NYC. She might have become just as worldly going to a suburban school that actually had some real middle class families — the ones who can barely afford $300,000 homes — from families who might not be as highly educated as the ones who choose and can afford private school. Maplewood Guy sounds like many parents I know who had to move out of NYC because their budget wasn’t 1 million for a house, but 1/3 of that. I’d like my child to meet those kinds of families, too, since they make up the vast majority of people in this country.
I couldn’t agree more about many New Yorkers being among the most provincial of people. My daughter went to a Brooklyn private school for grades 1-8, then transferred to a private school in Manhattan for high school. It was almost laughable how many of the kids who had grown up on the Upper East Side lived such small lives, considering anything south of 59th Street to be “downtown.” They assumed my kid must have grown up poor in the ghetto when they learned that she was from Brooklyn. She opened their eyes by getting them on the subway, taking them to parts of Brooklyn and Queens they’d never heard of. Then she left for college in the midwest, but found it too small and low-energy and is transferring to a large university in September.
I really didn’t mean to sound arrogant in my earlier posts. (If you knew me, you’d know I’m actually anything but arrogant in person!) I just have strong feelings about the advantages of growing up in the big city, assuming one has the means (though I’m far from rich!) to house and educate one’s family in safe, stimulating environment. It’s a choice: I grew up partly in the New Jersey suburbs, and hated it, so I have a visceral reaction against the idea of raising kids there. It doesn’t mean it’s not the right choice for other people, just not for me.
Park Sloper, where did your child go to high school?
In other news, I think this house is gorgeous!