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
The preservation easement LIMITS future development to a property by preserving a house’s facade in a manner similar to landmarking. It provides the homeowner a tax break as well, and will preserve the home if ever the block becomes un-landmarked.
Anonymous 4:39,
AFAIK “easement[s] put on a property… with the National Architectural Trust” are for the purposes of obtaining a, possibly dubious, tax benefit and have nothing to do with “getting [a]development done in a landmark district”. Quite observant of you to notice that easement though.
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I own a two family, two car garage limestone on woodruff ave. that I’m thinking of putting on the market soon – can someone suggest a real estate group that has knowledge of this neighborhood.
Funny you should say that. There’s a Chinese restaurant pictured there, in front of which I once saw a middle aged man shot in the back.
It’s safe looking all right…
PLG at night: http://www.planetplg.com/night/
Doesn’t look too scary to me. Maybe you guys should move to Jersey or Staten Island.
I lived direclty across the street from this place, at 23X, for three years. The frame house on the left used to have a beautiful lot-sized garden in this space with a shed in the back. The house to the right of the garden went on the market a few years back and it was pretty evident (I toured it) that the house was ready for demolition–it had some nice bones, details, and features (a little Munster-house-ish) but had been used as a quasi-flop house for some time, so it was kind of a disaster area inside. This whole new condo building is no surprise. Welcome to “Brownstone” Brooklyn. Let’s hope the finished product has more architectural integrity than the awful brick house with the garage down the street from it that went up in 2002.
By the way, I have a pretty good idea of who the Cumberland Street old timer who accosted the photographer was, and she’s not that bad a person ‘in real life,’ really. It’s just that the street had a lot of charm years back that I fear it might be losing.
Didn’t we go over this? The owners of the frame house own the property and are doing the developing. They’ve been there since (at least) ’85. There might be some bad blood between them and other “old-timers” (i.e., the one who accosted you) who may resent the property being developed. Also, keep in mind that the block is landmarked, so they’ve probably jumped through a TON of hoops to get this done and spent a lot of time on the process. Maybe related is an odd (to me, at least) little thing on their Pshark listing showing an easement put on the property in 2004 with the National Architectural Trust. I’m guessing that might be related to getting this development done in a landmark district? Anyone know more than I? (That wouldn’t be too hard.)
I posted at 3:45 and everything I said is based on actual experience of living in PLG and on Ocean Avenue. I believe it to have been a fairly balanced account of pros and cons — yes,definitely heavier on the pros — but by no means a “snow job.”
Anon 4:16 you are full of nonsense. If you have lived in PLG all your life and are as unhappy as you claim to be, then obviously you are also a hopeless loser. Why have you not up and moved to a safer, more idyllic location in NYC? You mean to tell me you have made it all the way to your late 60’s and now having nothing better to do with your life than to dump and rant? Gee, with all the drug dealers, thugs and street toughs you claim are running amok around here, just waiting to slit your throat, I’m surprised you have even made it age 10. But, then again, maybe you are only age 10 years. At any rate, and regardless of your age, we know you don’t actually live in this nabe, after all.
Like I said folks, you don’t have to take the word of anyone who posts on this blog. Come check out our nabe in person, spend some time here, walk the streets (by both night and day, on weekends and weekdays, ask the hard questions, and then decide. PLG is not for everyone. But, then again, NO nabe in this city could be. Sigh and sheesh!
I think the peach color is an effort to be neutral but not bland. they probably assume people will change the paint anyway and choose not to paint it any other color as it may distract from the other characteristics of the house if the color is too bold and white is just so institutional.