House of the Day: 226 Wyckoff Street
It’s not huge, but this townhouse at 226 Wyckoff Street in Boerum Hill sure is charming. It’s got plenty of original details (which appear to be in good shape) in addition to a newly renovated kitchen. Although it’s a legal two-family, it’s currently configured as a one-family. Clearly the biggest hurdle this place is going…
It’s not huge, but this townhouse at 226 Wyckoff Street in Boerum Hill sure is charming. It’s got plenty of original details (which appear to be in good shape) in addition to a newly renovated kitchen. Although it’s a legal two-family, it’s currently configured as a one-family. Clearly the biggest hurdle this place is going to have is its proximity to public housing. If that weren’t a factor, the $1,395,000 asking price would seem positively cheap for Boerum Hill.
226 Wyckoff Street [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
I don’t know why. I don’t think classism = intelligence. I don’t think racism = intelligence. So, the opposite of that to me is ignorance. I really cannot explain it for you though…sorry.
Pigeon,
you still haven’t explained how your south facing kitchen looks on back of this bldg. Since this house is south side of wyckoff st.
and as I said …similar house one block up on Bergen just sold for this price.
why does classism = ignorance/racism?
No, it doesn’t make people racist…it’s make them ignorant. Ignorance and racism and classism all go hand in hand. Obviously proximity to the projects is not a barometer for whether or not a house will sell. And…it’s definitely not a barometer for whether a house will sell for a lot. If people who have the money to buy the houses near the projects don’t have a problem with the projects or the people in them, the broke asses wishing they could afford it should shut up about it…or move far, far away.
classism is not racism
given the choice of living next to:
A) a poor/lower-middle class person;
B) a middle class person; or
C) a rich person
… most will choose B) or C).
“Are those people who buy or rent where 11217 lives racist because they paid more to be in a neighborhood not near projects?”
Yeah, you’re right because there is NO difference between where I live and this house. Who cares about Prospect Park or the Greenmarket, 2 coffee shops within steps, 10 restaurants within a 60 second walk, Brooklyn Museum…what’s that?
But apparently for you it all boils down to projects or no projects.
But I’m the one who’s silly. Ok, Pigeon.
For a good time go to the “Luxury rentals Abound” thread from early today and read the writings of that sage, Polemicist.
Phew!
You people are silly… calling a person a racist because he notes the fact (yes, it is a fact) that close proximity to PJ’s makes a home less desired!
What will you say to someone who really is racist?
Even the Brownstoner post about which we comment says: “Clearly the biggest hurdle this place is going to have is its proximity to public housing.” Does that make Brownstoner racist?
If you don’t want to live across the street from PJs does that make you racist?
If you don’t want to live in PJs does that make you racist?Are those people who buy or rent where 11217 lives racist because they paid more to be in a neighborhood not near projects?
Of course not.
I don’t know why I even waste my time replying to such foolishness.
Goodbye.
Pigeon,
You talk on here like you know me. It’s odd, actually.
Before I moved to Brooklyn I lived on a block on the Upper West Side FOR YEARS with projects on it…and they were FAR WORSE than the Wyckoff Gardens or Gowanus Houses.
I dated someone for a year on this very block of Wyckoff and have walked it hundreds of times…late at night, early morning, whenever.
NEVER did I feel unsafe.
I would not in fact be singing a different tune, because had a found a nice apartment on Wyckoff, I would have absolutely considered it. I happened to end up where I am now because the apartment is lovely and the price was right.
Can you stop projecting your racism onto me, please?