Open House Picks
Boerum Hill 394 Pacific Street Nancy McKiernan Sunday 12:30-2:30 $1,825,000 GMAP P*Shark Ditmas Park 520 East 23rd Street Warren Lewis Sunday 1-3 $1,150,000 GMAP P*Shark Ditmas Park 547 Argyle Road Urban Living Int’l Sunday 11-12 $999,000 GMAP P*Shark Prospect Lefferts 185 Ocean Avenue also on Planet PLG Brown Harris Stevens Sunday 2-4 $889,000 GMAP P*Shark…

Boerum Hill
394 Pacific Street
Nancy McKiernan
Sunday 12:30-2:30
$1,825,000
GMAP P*Shark
Ditmas Park
520 East 23rd Street
Warren Lewis
Sunday 1-3
$1,150,000
GMAP P*Shark
Ditmas Park
547 Argyle Road
Urban Living Int’l
Sunday 11-12
$999,000
GMAP P*Shark
Prospect Lefferts
185 Ocean Avenue also on Planet PLG
Brown Harris Stevens
Sunday 2-4
$889,000
GMAP P*Shark
Bedford Stuyvesant
834 Putnam Avenue
Corcoran
Sunday 2:30-4
$735,000
GMAP P*Shark
Troll or no troll, it is pretty much true that the only way you’re getting into 321 *today* from outside the zone is an address scam or a toe-tag. (I.e., move into the zone just long enough to enroll and hightail it out.) But there are plenty of other good publics in Brooklyn, and I don’t know anything about the one Ocean is zoned for.
Another question, and I mean this seriously: in a lot of past threads on PLG, Ditmas, & various other neighborhoods around the park, one line that comes up a lot is “Well, you can always drive to Park Slope for [restaurants, school, shopping, etc.].” We’ve just had a week of threads about how horrible parking and driving in and to Park Slope is — does that change anyone’s thinking about these houses? Or does it just come with the territory?
I really don’t mean that as flamebait, but flame away.
Ok….Maybe I’m still too new to brownstoner, but I don’t exactly get what constituted someone as a troll here? I once thought that someone that would post using someone elses handle and make disparaging comments made them a troll.
So if that’s not it, what is it? Because I totally missed it here.
12:34: “Kids in PLG whose parents have the knowledge and will to set it up generally go to school in Park Slope (PS 321), Boerum Hill (PS 261) or to one of the the mini schools in nearby Ditmas (“Flatbush Academy” and “The Brotherhood” at PS 139 on Argyle).”
When we moved to PLG we assumed we would send our kids to one of those schools. But it has now become impossible to get into them if you are out of district. Our kids now go to private school-and everyone I know with younger kids here does the same. If your kids are already in them, you’re okay, but don’t plan on sending them there if they aren’t already enrolled.
a dangerous drug den in new york means a hot property with huge potential for making money.
isn’t that what everyone talks about…that new york is becoming too disney-like? the hipsters want to find the latest drug dens!!! this troll is dumber than i thought.
Agreed. If someone tells me that a property is a dangerous drug den, my first impulse is always to reach for my check book.
it’s also interesting to note that while the troll throws around words like “drug dens” “despicable” “dangerous” etc. words used regularly by he or she that he probably causes MORE people to become interested in said property and neighborhood than if he/she had said nothing.
hey troll…ever heard the phrase bad publicity is better than no publicity or whatever it is?
Nope, Mr.Troll, don’t know the owner, have no agenda whatsoever other than to admire a great looking house that is in a a great location. Your overuse of the word dispicable just outed you again.
Since most of us live in brownstones, and don’t have a side view on either side, not having side windows was not a consideration in my defense of the building, nor did the lack of such factor in most people’s assesment of the home.
Obviously, there are enough other people who have commented on liking the house, no one cares one way or the other what I think, nor should they. This is just my opinion, worth no more and no less than anyone elses.
If I was in the market for a new home, I’d buy this in a minute, because I like the location and I like the house. I’ll take my chances with the “drug dens”.
and i didn’t mean single as in not married (as i am also single). i meant it like only person posting these things…
allright, I think the ocean ave house is a great investment. House on prospect park for the price of a bed stuy house. I also agree with Brenda, the area is changing for the better. I sent my kids to summer camp at maple street and its a great location for the price. Subway, walk to school, imagination playground, carosell, botanic garden, and a decent coffee shop. its a steal to be able to wake up and look out your windown at one of the two greatest parks in all of nyc. For under a million, I’d be all over it if I hadn’t bought recently. I also have heard those coop buildings on the block are getting better and better.
Btw, the troll is so obvious its by now laughable. He/she needs job.