House of the Day: 141 Quincy Street
This 1890 house at 141 Quincy Street in Bedford Stuyvesant is a charmer, to be sure. In fact, the renovated kitchen is the only real downer about the two-family (configured as one) house. The porch, plaster moldings, pier mirrors, etc. are all very impressive. As the listing takes pains to point out, the house is…
This 1890 house at 141 Quincy Street in Bedford Stuyvesant is a charmer, to be sure. In fact, the renovated kitchen is the only real downer about the two-family (configured as one) house. The porch, plaster moldings, pier mirrors, etc. are all very impressive. As the listing takes pains to point out, the house is also pretty close (a block and a half, actually) to the Clinton Hill border. Given all this, and the fact that you could move right in, the asking price of $795,000 seems pretty reasonable to us. We bet it goes for within 5 percent of that number.
141 Quincy Street [Douglas Elliman] GMAP P*Shark
Yes, I have to agree, Fort Greene is becoming Destination Dining nexus of downtown Brooklyn. It makes parking harder certain evenings in the week but spots seem to open up at about 10:30 when people start leaving. It’s quite remarkable. Park Slope has so-so dining with a couple of good places.
It’s interesting how the average age of diners in Fort Greene seems to fit in between the young of Williamsburg and the fuddy-duddies of Brooklyn Heights. I guess it’s sort of the 30-something crowd with a smidge of 20-somethings and 40-somethings. Is this an accurate breakdown?
All I can say is, there are a lot of people coming to Fort Greene trucking back and forth, forth and back. It’s quite remarkable. A good number of years ago, I used to joke that it must be parents’ weekend if I saw a red-faced “gentleman” shambling along in a blazer gold buttons…usually accompanied by a granddaughter, etc. Now, frankly, these visiting family groupings (often now with Baby in tow) are so common promenading hither and thither I barely register their presence anymore.
Weekends in Fort Greene are a bit of a riot.
Oh woops.
Ok, well BkGreene can’t always be right.
🙂
I think BrooklynGreene was saying the opposite — Fort Greene is better than Park Slope and Carroll Gardens. I think .. .
BKGreene…
Of course! Ft. Greene ROCKS! I know some seem to think I’m only all about PS and it just isn’t true. I’d be equally happy in nearly any of the amazing brownstone neighborhoods, with Prospect Heights and Ft. Greene right up at the top of the list with PS and the rest!
I’m not getting this argument.
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Thank you for lumping Fort Greene in with the likes of Park Slope and Carol Gardens. Humph! 😉
for this price point, rather buy in Stuy Heights. When gentrification was rampant, close to clinton hill border helps a lot – ie as mkt anticipates the $$$ would overflow across the border. Currently, the area on both sides of the bed-stuy clinton border hasn’t change much recently so that gentrification angle carries less weight on pricing. That said, one might as well go spend 800k in Stuy Heights which has much nicer blocks, houses, subway access,…
Bklplebe:
Only 33% of New York City residents are homeowners.
I bet most of them are nearer to the top levels of income than they are to the bottom.
That’s all I’m saying. Those with it enough to have 20% down for a HOUSE (not a studio) are making 200K or above. It’s really not that odd.
Couples in PS, FG, CG, etc are making 300-400K to be able to afford the HOMES there. Again, not 1 bedrooms, but houses like this one.
Of course it is not the population as a whole. What we established is that the MEDIAN MANHATTAN couple cannot afford it. The are millions earning below that.
Posted by: bklplebe at August 24, 2009 3:08 PM
And there are millions earning above that, maybe fewer millions but millions just the same.
If you split the market of housing stock between owner occupied and rent, there are far more rental units.
We are comparing apples & oranges here. This house, despite it’s low price vs. the rest of brownstone Brooklyn, is way above most people’s affordability. It is also was below what thousands and thousands of people are looking for.