House of the Day: 256 Lincoln Road
Gorgeous! That’s our first reaction to seeing the photos for this new listing at 256 Lincoln Road in Prospect Lefferts Gardens. The bay-front brownstone has tons of original details and appears to be in excellent shape (including a renovated kitchen). The only potential drawback (assuming you’re down with the location) is the fact that there…
Gorgeous! That’s our first reaction to seeing the photos for this new listing at 256 Lincoln Road in Prospect Lefferts Gardens. The bay-front brownstone has tons of original details and appears to be in excellent shape (including a renovated kitchen). The only potential drawback (assuming you’re down with the location) is the fact that there are only two floors above grade, although the English basement in this case has been fixed up to include an office and rec area. The asking price is $899,000. What do you make of that?
256 Lincoln Road [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP P*Shark
is it just me or does it look like the chairs have been photoshopped into the picture?
Why would you buy a 5-story house?! Good exercise I guess. Two seems like plenty!
Nomi, I think it’s called a personal preference. Mr. B bought a 5-story house, and nothing compares!
Mr. B, I so wish you would explain why you often call two stories a drawback.
What a gorgeous neighborhood…my favorite in Brooklyn. Just a really nice place to live.
I agree with Montrose and Bob…I sold a home hear a few months back it needed some work but I had every walk of life call me. This is truly an integrated neighborhood, and I think its more accepted here because its been this way for 50 years. I’d say Clinton Hill has more of a racial divide then PLG, Clinton Hill has experienced “gentrification” much more recent than PLG.
*** The people who bought the house were an Asian woman and her husband who was American.*** Sounds pretty integrated to me….
“Lefferts Manor and surrounding blocks are among the most truly integrated parts of Brooklyn”
-you could have fooled me!
Actually mcKensie, PLG is a neighborhood that has been integrated for over 50 years. Unlike many other areas, PLG emerged from the blockbusting of the late ’50s–early ’60s with a sizable number of white residents remaining and has continued to attract buyers of all races ever since. I can’t think of a neighborhood in Brooklyn that’s LESS divided along racial lines.
Sorry, McKenzie, but I don’t find that to be so in this case, at all. Lefferts Manor and surrounding blocks are among the most truly integrated parts of Brooklyn. It’s always been an enclave, separate from the hustle and bustle of Flatbush, but it’s been an very integrated enclave. If you want to talk about the relative economic segregation of the wealthier people in the Manor vs the poorer Caribbean immigrant population around it, that’s another story, but it’s economic, not racial. If you pick almost any house in Lefferts Manor to live in, you have an equal chance of getting a black neighbor as a white neighbor. I think that’s rather rare, and pretty cool.
mcKenzie this isnt Clinton Hill, it is PLG