Open House Picks: Townhouses
Clinton Hill 48 Clifton Place Brown Harris Stevens Sunday 12-2 $1,485,000 GMAP P*Shark Clinton Hill 239 St. James Place Brooklyn Properties Sunday 2:30-4 $1,350,000 GMAP P*Shark South Slope 212 16th Street Douglas Elliman Sunday 12-2 $1,100,000 GMAP P*Shark Bedford Stuyvesant 282A Gates Avenue Corcoran Sunday 12-2 $799,000 GMAP P*Shark
Clinton Hill
48 Clifton Place
Brown Harris Stevens
Sunday 12-2
$1,485,000
GMAP P*Shark
Clinton Hill
239 St. James Place
Brooklyn Properties
Sunday 2:30-4
$1,350,000
GMAP P*Shark
South Slope
212 16th Street
Douglas Elliman
Sunday 12-2
$1,100,000
GMAP P*Shark
Bedford Stuyvesant
282A Gates Avenue
Corcoran
Sunday 12-2
$799,000
GMAP P*Shark
Drug traffic in eastern Clinton Hill is very block-to-block. Turf gets established, and then it’s protected. Brownstoner lives close to Putnam and Grand, and has been instrumental in getting attention to the problems there – more power to him, though the ultimate outcome remains to be seen. With luck, the situation in both locations will continue to improve. But the reason the owner’s comment is out of line is that for obvious reasons, he’s trying to put a benign face on a situation that is not benign, and insisting that the problem does not exist. Honest comments from the landlord on Clifton Place who would like to get rid of tenants in the drug trade, and from others who have lived on this block far longer than the owner did are included above; these are people who are truly part of the “community,” and welcome anyone who wants to help in efforts to improve the situation. Those active in combating the drug situation at Putnam and Grand may not be aware that there have been drug-related shootings on Clifton Place as well. Not for the last few years, but the players haven’t disappeared. The honest comments are not from “another planet” -they’re from people who know the block well. A desire for a “lily white enclave” or “the Cosby Show” has nothing to do with an entrenched drug problem on the block, and the implication that truthful commenters are racist or elitist is offensive. And characterizing the Corcoran comment as “incorrect” because “no realtors have that power” is not a response to the comment, as the point was the agent’s puffery – not the agent’s power. The owner says the negative commenters should move to New Jersey – but face facts, he’s the one who moved out.
To anon 5:28. You are the one who is emotionally disturbed if you think living with criminals is such a joy. You are probably one those that are hanging out there with the hoodlums and a nerve is hit!
Not sure why anon 8:03 thinks the owner is out of line. Seemed like a perfectly reasonable comment to us.
To the owner of the house. You are completely out of line. Maybe you should keep your big mouth shut and mind your business. Afterall, all you are after is money. Goo luck.
To the owner: this is a discussion board about brooklyn real estate, and your house is the subject of a thread regarding your listing. Unkind of you to characterize a civil discussion as a never ending lunatic argument. Drugs are of no little concern to someone paying 1.5MM for a house.
Hello:
I am the owner of 48 Clifton Place. Wow. Who ever thought me selling my house would stir up so much passion. Made me realize that I miss all these never ending lunatic arguments that arise over . . . everything.
Unfortunately I now live in Los Angeles (my wife’s job moved us out here 3 years ago). If I had the choice I would move back to Brooklyn (and that house) in a second. We hope someday to return and buy back into that same area.
We moved into that house when my daughter was 3 days old and lived there for 3 years. In all honesty it was the best time of my life. I’d never actually felt a part of a community before in my entire life. My former tenants (who just moved out and could afford to live anywhere) have a son the same age as my child and they loved living there and expressed the same joy about interacting with ALL the members of the community that we did.
The guys who sometime hang out further down the block on the corner have been in my home and I have been in theirs. I’ve hired some of their children to work in my garden. When I got in the taxi to go to the airport to move to LA there were teenagers who are part of the “problem” hugging me and my family goodbye. Maybe that means we are bad people . . . so be it.
I honestly think that all these negative Anonymous posters should move to New Jersey. If someone looking to buy my property thinks that Brooklyn is going to be some lily-white enclave or The Cosby Show they shouldn’t be looking to buy in this area. It’s ironic that the most expensive homes in the vicinity are next to one of the worst problems (Fort Green Park – Walt Whitman Housing projects) in Brooklyn and that there are all those wonderful shops and restaurants are in the so called “crossfire” of Clifton Place.
One mans castle . . .
Most of the information posted here is totally incorrect by the way and makes me laugh – like the conversation with the Corcoran realtor about ending the “problem” on the corner. Maybe in New Jersey the realtors have that kind of power.
If anyone out there really cares to find out the reality of this realty please contact my new realtor:
Lee Solomon – lsolomon@bhsusa.com
You can get the real story from her and see the place for yourself.
Thanks.
Owner, 48 Clifton
Jerry Minsky
Didn’t Corcoran have this listing at the same price? What is the name of that agent that had it at Corcoran?
It is obvious from the comments that drugs are a problem here (Clifton). The statements seem sincere. Reduce the price $200,000 and maybe there will be a taker. What re broker would take this listing at this price with major drug problems and a buildable lot next door? A fool..