Houses of the Day: Lefferts Doubleshot
There are two houses for sale on Midwood Street between Rogers and Nostrand that might be of interest to readers. The house on the left is at 230 Midwood Street and is available through Century 21, AAA Top Stars at 718 498-2400; the house on the right is 253 Midwood Street and is available through…
There are two houses for sale on Midwood Street between Rogers and Nostrand that might be of interest to readers. The house on the left is at 230 Midwood Street and is available through Century 21, AAA Top Stars at 718 498-2400; the house on the right is 253 Midwood Street and is available through Jamal at Apple Real Estate at 718 735 2300. Can anyone tell us what the interiors are like at either of these places? How about recent comps?
230 Midwood Street: GMAP P*Shark
253 Midwood Street: GMAP P*Shark
Photos by Bob Marvin
And that, my dear, is why even the most tame conversations about safety in PLG are pretty useless. But it’s the outlandish and unfounded comments that stir people up.
Let’s be real – comments about safety in PLG, Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, etc., say so much more about the person who posts them, rather than anything meaningful about crime or safety.
Ed said:
“People who are concerned about safety in PLG, Prospect Heights, Clinton Hill, Fort Greene, Crown Heights, Bed-Stuy, and some parts of Boerum Hill are not unreasonable.”
Sure it’s not unreasonable. But Ed left out Park Slope and Brooklyn Heights. Well…I know people who have been mugged in BOTH those neighborhoods. My husband was mugged right outside our door on a prime Park Slope block. Everybody needs to be alert all the time everywhere, and that’s the simple plain truth. But if you are scared of crime to the degree you would entirely avoid all the neighborhoods Ed lists, then honestly, you should not be living in New York City at all. You just wouldn’t be comfortable here.
Ed, if you or anyone else doesn’t like PLG, then get the hell out. We don’t need you.
I agree. People who are concerned about safety in PLG, Prospect Heights, Clinton Hill, Fort Greene, Crown Heights, Bed-Stuy, and some parts of Boerum Hill are not unreasonable.
Point taken Walt, although I suspect that listening to police radio in most brownstone neighborhoods might scare the hell out of prospective buyers (just a guess–I’ve never had the equipment needed to listen). Obviously concerns “about safety in PLG [or ANY neighborhood to which one is thinking of moving]are not unreasonable and [those who do so]should not be branded as trolls”, although there HAVE, in the past, been some claims so patently outragous that this label is appropriate.
” I love the fact that people care so much”
Me too Ed. FWIW I don’t think Walt is our old familiar troll for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that he can write a literate English sentence. I think he’s a communications hobbyest who’s depending a bit too much on technology–no evil intent here that I can see.
IMO Anonymous 10:30 has a good point and what he/she describes has happened on many PLG-related threads (and on threads about other neighborhoods, such as the recent one about the Hancock St. house) but I don’t think it’s happened much on THIS thread.
Correct, Bob. The “dangerous” area that Walt is talking about is in a completely different area of the precinct than PLG. That’s why these comments are outlandish. They are inaccurate. That’s why PLGers defend their neighborhood. I love the fact that people care so much.
Screw you, Walt.
Much of this PLG discussion, as usual, is the product of a troll (or trolls). The design is to make ridiculous assertions and/or argue both sides of a topic, to an extreme, for the sole purpose of provoking upset. Leave this juvenile, demented soul alone. Eventually, he will go back to taking his meds and, hopefully, leave the rest of us alone.