Open House Picks
Clinton Hill 85 Downing Street Corcoran Sunday 1:30-3:30 $1,375,000 GMAP P*Shark Boerum Hill 457 Warren Street Brownstone Real Estate Sunday 12-2 $1,000,000 GMAP P*Shark Bay Ridge 326 74th Street Brown Harris Stevens Sunday 12-:30 $979,000 GMAP P*Shark
Clinton Hill
85 Downing Street
Corcoran
Sunday 1:30-3:30
$1,375,000
GMAP P*Shark
Boerum Hill
457 Warren Street
Brownstone Real Estate
Sunday 12-2
$1,000,000
GMAP P*Shark
Bay Ridge
326 74th Street
Brown Harris Stevens
Sunday 12-:30
$979,000
GMAP P*Shark
279 broker stood us up.
Building needed a lot of work from the outside — stoop is crumbling, water damage under the bluestone, etc.
Times Square a/k/a Disneyland is pretty gross, too, with its shopping mall restauruants and suburban chains — why any tourist would come to see that is beyond me — looks just like the rest of suburban America, just a whole lot bigger and more crowded — they could have stayed home if they wanted to eat at Red Lobster or the Olive Garden, or shop for sneakers or sporting goods. I avoid that area at all costs. AY would combine the worst of both.
Sports arenas drive away decent restaurants and businesses, they don’t attract them. I’ve seen it in every city I’ve ever visited – the surrounding blocks around any downtown sports arena in any city are full of only cheeseball chain restaurants and sports bar/pubs. If even that. Minneapolis built a new downtown stadium, called the Target Center, and it’s just a nasty mall and arcade with tacky restaurants, connected to the sports arena. Except for one upscale, hip hotel sort of stuck in there somewhere. Teenage gangster drug dealers hanging out day and night around the arena, even though most all the rest of downtown Minneapolis has had a huge revival and is doing great. The Target Center is now the only spot of blight in downtown Minneapolis. Look at the MSQ area; they have nothing, nowhere to eat at all. MSQ is the grossest part of Manhattan.
9:11, that’s totally sportsist.
Anon. 7:28am. I am not anon. 8:33am btw but want to ask you: Do people who like sports also hate sunlight, clean air, and LOVE, LOVE, LOVE TRAFFIC? Go ahead and knit away. The fact that you are a woman and a mom doesn’t mean that this arena project is immoral and wrong for the neighborhood that it’s supposed to go in. And the fact that we HATE, HATE, HATE the proposed arena doen’t mean that we don’t love sports. Don’t stereotype us.
anon 8:33am, if you read my post, i say some good and some bad things for the neighborhood. if there are nice places for working class people to live then to me that is a good thing. as for all of the yuppies they are everywhere and while that is bad, i too was once one. now for the sports arena and a team for brooklyn, well if you are not a sports fan then you would NEVER EVER EVER understand.
i am a woman who grew up going to games in my home town and loved every minute of it, i knit sweaters for my children also, so please don’t sterotype me.
I liked the Downing Street house, especially its proportions. Also, you could tell that the owner, who had done the renovations, had done them solidly. My only concern was the location – I live in Clinton Hill, but that street felt uncared for, and the apartment building across the street would make me think twice before buying.
I have seen the place on Downing. It is well maintained but I think it still priced to high for the area and will need some reconfiguration. The building next door sold for 1.1 six months ago. There is a kitchenette on the 3rd floor which is odd and will need to be removed and then install a kitchen on the parlor floor.
Anon at 4:36 — what do you think the stadium is going to do for the community? I can see anticipating that scads of market rate apartments will bring more yuppie servies, but what are the benefits of a sporting and events arena specifically?