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]
there are also studies that say that people who degrade other people only do so because they hate themselves.
You make $200k a year as a university dean and have time to post comments on brownstoner. I guess I went into the wrong field.
Park Slope is about as fake as these house searchers are.
This is just too funny. I can’t believe you people make up fake buyers who are in love with the Slope.
I take back the “too funny.” It is actually kind of sickening.
Thank you 4:12. We are really excited to find a house and get out there as soon as we can. We’ve found the community spirit there to be unmatched from all the places we have either visited or lived.
All our friends say that they’d never dream of living anywhere else. That is how we want to feel about where we live as well. Manhattan was fun while it lasted, and we adore it…always will…but we both feel Brooklyn has become what Manhattan was 15-20 years ago…a place where culture, the arts, diversity and community involvement take precedence.
Thanks for the welcome.
“Public schools NYC, and especially Brooklyn neighborhoods near the park, have been getting better and better. But that mostly applies to primary schools. Once you get to 7th grade and above, the situation gets dramatically worse….”
In five to ten years, many of the same kids whose parents have been helping to make elementary schools “better and better” will be going to middle and high schools and in turn working to make them better and better.
With fewer Brooklyn families moving to the suburbs and more of them utilizing public schools–in part because, as you say, privates have fewer spaces for them–you’ve had more parents become involved in public schools that need parent involvement, and that involvement is already working up into the system.
(I know somebody is going to say that I’m claiming well-off yuppie parents are “better” than the parents whose kids were in public school before, and poor people care about their kids too, etc.–all true, but the fact is that people with more means and options tend to have more time to volunteer at schools, more oppoortunity to be directly involved in their kids’ education, more contacts for fundraising, etc. — it may not be fair, but it’s fact.)
“Who knows…maybe in 10 years when my kids are about to enter high school, John Jay will be on a whole new level.”
That is the most optimistic thing I have ever heard in this board.
I will welcome you with open arms when you move here.
there are no such studies.
These sorts of studies are typically done on the University level within their education and child development departments. I don’t find it necessary to post anything to this mostly anonymous website. I’ve read things here before, and no matter what is said, it is picked apart to death. It’s so unhealthy.
Picking a school for your child is a personal experience. The key is to do your research, go visit the school and see what you think.
It’s similar to when you went to select a college…you know when you get there if it “feels” right.
While it is mostly primary schools in NYC and Brooklyn that are on the up and up these days, I plan to get involved when moving to improve the middle and high school in Park Slope.
That is how the primary schools have developed there…parent/teacher/administration involvement and committment.
Who knows…maybe in 10 years when my kids are about to enter high school, John Jay will be on a whole new level.
Anything is possible if you work at it. Saying it’s horrible on an anonymous blog about real estate certainly doesn’t solve the issue.