House of the Day: 100 Sixth Avenue
While some of the interior stylings are a little precious for our tastes (how about a little color?), there’s no arguing with the quality of the house itself at 100 Sixth Avenue in Park Slope. The owner’s triplex has five bedrooms and as many fireplaces. The garden apartment also looks particularly nice. Still, with a…
While some of the interior stylings are a little precious for our tastes (how about a little color?), there’s no arguing with the quality of the house itself at 100 Sixth Avenue in Park Slope. The owner’s triplex has five bedrooms and as many fireplaces. The garden apartment also looks particularly nice. Still, with a price tag of $2,950,000 for a house on Sixth Avenue, you’d expect perfection. Think they’ll get their price?
100 6th Avenue [Douglas Elliman] GMAP P*Shark
Babs, this might be the answer why some are down on 282.
4% W, 59% B, 34% H, 3%A
COMPS:
29 (Cobble Hill)
49 – 19 – 24 – 8
58 (Carroll Gardens)
36 – 17 – 41 – 6
261 (Boerum Hill)
29 – 42 – 25 – 4
321 (Park Slope)
61 – 18 – 16 – 5
I seriously never paid attention to the demographics until just now. I guess people were talking in code and I never picked up on it.
Jeebus, I had no idea 321 was so homogeneous. Oh, wait, sorry…just a coincidence, right?
Meanwhile, 282 has some great programs, but that 4% freaks people out.
Decoration: Im guessing the owner is trying to counter his Seasonal Affective Disorder
Babs, those progress report “grades” are totally meaningless, and I think most parents understand that. They’re based almost entirely on one third-grade test, and the methodology for assigning grades is bizarre. Too complicated to get into here, but I wouldn’t put any stock in them.
That said, my daughter attended 282 for one year, and we loved her teacher. I think they do a great job getting funding for enrichment programs, and overall, it’s a pretty good school. The problems are (1) a principal who is not very accessible and is kind of a cold fish, and (2) a somewhat dysfunctional PTA/parent body. And some of the teachers are dead wood that they can’t get rid of because of the union. But some of that is changing.
I’ve said it before, and I know people disagree vehemently, but I personally don’t know anyone who has nearly $3 million to spend on a house and cares about the school zone. If you’ve got that kind of money, you’re sending the kids to private.
Lincoln Place and Berkeley Place are the streets with some of the highest prices paid for homes in Park Slope. They are both in PS. 282 zone.
As far as the decor of the home goes, I think it’s absolutely hideous. The house itself is gorgeous though.
entrance to the garden from garden apartment looks amazing
Oh, yes, and if you have a precocious one at home, as Babs mentioned, 282 has a Gifted and Talented program you can test into.
babs, it’s a combination of things. PS 282 has a strong Special Ed side, and for better or worse, a lot of poor(er) black kids end up in Special Ed classes. I’ve heard the hemming and hawing when white upper middle class parents talk about PS 282, and I’m pretty sure that’s what they’re talking about. That said, I know actual live people who are zoned for the school (yes, white upper middle class parents), and they love their school and think it’s wonderful. My own child goes to a predominantly Chinese school (we’re white on white here at the maly household), and I get the same double-talk. I think people worry about their kids being a minority everywhere, whether it’s Chinese kids in Westchester, white kids in Chinatown or black kids in Park Slope. We’re not a race and class blind society.
there is so much furniture and drapes, etc in there that who knows what the condition of the house is.
ACTUALLY, LET ME AMEND THAT
The guide we are using (“NYC’s Best Public Elementary Schools” by Clara Hemphill) says 282 kicks butt. They update the rankings every year, and the latest edition says:
‘Long the highest performing school in District 13…strong music and arts…science room with animals, room just for chess, fabulous gym, et al’
Goes on to say that while for years it had a rep for rigid disciplinarian, the new principal (a 282 alum) has ‘humanized’ the environment.
Quite a bit more to say in the review, but suffice to say it is rather glowing (and the book we are reading isn’t afraid to be critical).