House of the Day: 1418 Pacific Street
Will somebody please put this listing out of its misery and buy it! The brownstone at 1418 Pacific Street in Crown Heights has been on the market for more than three years by our calculations. It was an Open House Pick in April 2007 when it was asking $999,999. The price now is down to…
Will somebody please put this listing out of its misery and buy it! The brownstone at 1418 Pacific Street in Crown Heights has been on the market for more than three years by our calculations. It was an Open House Pick in April 2007 when it was asking $999,999. The price now is down to $700,000, which has to be getting close to the market-clearing number given the amount of original architectural detail and the proximity to the Brooklyn Children’s Museum. What’s it gonna take?
1418 Pacific Street [Brooklyn Properties] GMAP P*Shark
11217, my comment was more of a general one and not directed at you. Your comments reflect how you feel and the experiences of your friends. I know you have the sense to not express your thoughts on places you have never been to and you typically try to highlight some positives along with the negatives.
I call bullshit – I would wander around all the blocks btw Franklin and Albany and the only really hot corner was St John’s and Nostrand.
Sometimes perception and reality are not the same. According to the NY City Homicide Map, the immediate couple of blocks seem safe enough, although of course there may have been people gravely wouneded who were saved by modern medicince which is obviously not reflected on the map.
http://projects.nytimes.com/crime/homicides/map
it doesnt matter many law abiding gay love happy content people live there, it’s still one of the least safe neighborhoods in nyc to be gay. that is fact. why you are denying it is mind boggling.
*rob*
Montrose, I am not a troll. I am someone who lived in Crown Heights, above Nostrand and near the Children’s Museum and Brower Park for about 5 years, until recently. I moved out because I got very tired of the drug deals in broad daylight, the animal cruelty, the unleashed pits, the frequent gunshots at night, the garbage on the street, the noise, just general, depressing thug life that’s ubiquitous right there. I am sure there are hardworking and non-criminal minded people living in the projects and surrounding ‘hood, there are also a large percentage of a very bad element. The drug dealers OWN HOMES and are going nowhere, there were three brownstones on my old block {that was generally known to be} owned by dealers, with creeps coming and going all hours, and men standing ont he block as lookouts 24/7. We had seriously creepy men, lots of them, squatting in an abandoned house right across the street, that house caught on fire eventually, now it’s abandoned by even the squatters. Crown Heights, which has exquisite architecture, still has a very long way to go. I think it’s better to be realistic about it, and know what you’re getting into and have to deal with, rather than pretending it doesn’t affect you in your detail rich, neglected brownstone you overpaid for. Of course it does.
“sounds like you’re just boring :-P”
I’ve been called much worse! Funny line about the Capote reading, btw.
I agree, Biff. Although my experiences in Crown Heights have not been the best, of course I realize that lots of people love it and I don’t think the entire neighborhood is anti-gay. That’s obviously absurd. There is just a very distinct element who hang out on the streets who like to make comments and it feels (and is) wrong. Half of them are probably gay, anyway.
People talk sh*t about the Park Slope strollers and babies and all that nonsense too and if that’s not your scene…awesome. We all like different hoods intensely and that’s kinda what makes Brooklyn so terrific…no?
“Biff, people on this blog don’t just say Brooklyn Heights is boring, they say it is a geriatric ward where the median age is dead. ”
not true – i went to a pretty swingin capote reading there last week – some of the women were even wearing skirts above the ankle!
Biff, people on this blog don’t just say Brooklyn Heights is boring, they say it is a geriatric ward where the median age is dead. So, MM, I would take some of these comments with a grain of salt.