Houses of the Day: Head-to-Head in The Slope
When 590 2nd Street (right) hit the market three months ago for $3,200,000, we thought it had a pretty good shot at finding a buyer. Apparently not, as the price was just cut to $2,995,000. This, coincidentally, is the same asking price as a new Brown Harris Stevens listings in The Slope, 130 Lincoln Place…
When 590 2nd Street (right) hit the market three months ago for $3,200,000, we thought it had a pretty good shot at finding a buyer. Apparently not, as the price was just cut to $2,995,000. This, coincidentally, is the same asking price as a new Brown Harris Stevens listings in The Slope, 130 Lincoln Place (left). Both houses are two-family, four-story brownstones, though the 2nd Street house is slightly larger, according to PropertyShark. It also gets the benefit of the doubt when it comes to interiors since the Lincoln Place listing is lacking in the photo department. Which do you think has a better chance of selling at this price?
590 2nd Street [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP P*Shark
130 Lincoln Place [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP P*Shark
House of the Day: 590 2nd Street [Brownstoner]
I think there should be a daily Park Slope school post.. you people never talk about the houses on HOTD
$2mn saved making $600K AFTER grad school, student debt, etc. either parents or savvy real estate investing, but not this time if you do what you say you want to do. i guess you didn`t really have to be savvy the past 10 years, just in the right place at the right time.
i would also like to point out another inconsistency in the 600k couple. you have $2mn in savings, lived in the east village and NOW make $600K. that is about $400k take-home, so you would have had to be making that income for the past 10 years and saving around half of it to have $2mn. seems unlikely unless you bought in the east village a while back… also, my wife and i make about $200k combined, rent in 321 and won`t even consider public school. i would rather be forced to rent indefinitely if it meant i could afford private school. i also went to public school and it was terrible. to each his own… also, just wanted to point out that you will need that $600k for a very long time. if your husband suddenly becomes unsuccessful at managing artists or whatever (herding cats?), you better hope houses are still moving at $3mn. doesn`t sound very fiscally responsible to me, unless you ask people with clearly no experience in the matter. you should seriously look into a qualified financial advisor.
PS, 9:13, does that mean you won’t date me?
Hey 9:13, maybe I started early 🙂
Or maybe I never grew up.
Any body else get the idea that these “kids” are still at this point theoretical?
And lots of people who DO have kids actually change their minds about where to send them (sometimes many times) in their pre-school years.
She’s idealistic now. Maybe it will work out for her (and her kids); maybe she’ll change her mind. Big deal, either way.
9:31–Sanctimonious nonsense. (Not to mention, plenty of people avoid moving to the burbs because they want badly for THEIR KIDS to live in the city, not themselves.)
The advantages of private school are material equipment and resources that make parents feel good, but that don’t make a difference to the quality of a kids’ education long-term. For that, only good teaching and good support at home matter. Parents, however, tend to evaluate schools in terms of stuff–the physical buildings and materials–because those are objective, concrete and thus easier to compare than intangibles like teaching.
Your kid is as well off in a good public as a private, educationally. The privates just provide nice extras.
PS 329 and 29 are good schools… here’s the qualifier… for overcrowded, inner-city schools. Flame away, but the point is, if you ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO send your kids to a public school in Brooklyn, these are a couple of your best options. Everything’s relative. The honest parents I know with kids in 321 say that, with the overcrowding, the school is just okay – they have their grievances and they send them there because they can’t afford private school and they don’t want to live in the suburbs.
Bottom line, if you send your kids to 321 it’s not because you care so much about your kids, it’s because you want to live so badly in Park Slope. It’s not about your kids, it’s about you. Sending them to 321 is the price they pay. If you really prioritized your kids’ education, you’d live somewhere where the schools are strong. Pretty simple stuff, really.
No pictures yet for Lincoln Place house. Way to work for your $180K, BHS broker.