Open House Picks
Windsor Terrace 18 Sherman Street Warren Lewis, Listing 5826 Sunday 2:30-4:30 $1,895,000 GMAP P*Shark Prospect Heights 532 Carlton Avenue Corcoran Sunday 12-2 $1,575,000 GMAP P*Shark Windsor Terrace 203A Windsor Place Douglas Elliman Sunday 3-5 $1,125,000 GMAP P*Shark Bedford Stuyvesant 352 Halsey Street Twyford Real Estate Sunday 12-2 $765,000 GMAP P*Shark
Windsor Terrace
18 Sherman Street
Warren Lewis, Listing 5826
Sunday 2:30-4:30
$1,895,000
GMAP P*Shark
Prospect Heights
532 Carlton Avenue
Corcoran
Sunday 12-2
$1,575,000
GMAP P*Shark
Windsor Terrace
203A Windsor Place
Douglas Elliman
Sunday 3-5
$1,125,000
GMAP P*Shark
Bedford Stuyvesant
352 Halsey Street
Twyford Real Estate
Sunday 12-2
$765,000
GMAP P*Shark
Yes, but it was a bunch of idiots who bid on it who have no idea that the place isn’t nearly worth the ask price.
I heard there were already multiple bids in on the Sherman Street house. Any truth to that?
did anyone catch the OH at 1050 Sterling Pl in Crown Hts yesterday? i saw it going on as i drove past, but didn’t have time to attend. i can’t find any info on the weichert site.
WT prices differ big time across the board..I heard the below prop just sold for asking, and was completely reno’d..doesn’t look all that diff then those appearing here from the outside.
http://www.elliman.com/Listings.aspx?ListingID=806190&rentalperiod=&SearchType=quick
just as an observer and a non parent in the slope, it looks as though once kids get to be a certain age, the families must bolt. i see tons of small children in the slope, but very few teenagers.
perhaps people are choosing to raise the kids in the slope for a while, then head for the burbs once they get to middle/high school?
seems as though ps parents could really clean up (even more) in terms of neighborhood quality by investing the same amount of time/effort on john jay as they have done for ps. 321.
this would be the most sought after neighborhood in the city.
Erin,
I love Victorian Flatbush, but I’m trying to do my part to stop all the misinformation regarding schools that always comes up. The #1 fallicy is this whole obsession with 321 that it’s the only good primary school around.
I understand your point that it’s nice to live next to some good high schools, but people sometimes think that means more than it does, ie that your kid will only get in to that school if he/she lives next to it.
I saw the Sherman Street house. It’s nicely done, save some weird pastel marbles in the foyer and bathrooms. The layout is indeed odd though, and I’m not sure a top floor in Windsor Terrace could command $2,500/month, as the broker is suggesting. Is that market rate? And I was very surprised when the broker said that the current owner is getting $1,300 for just the back half of the top floor, a glorified studio that the owners are allowed to almost tromp right through to get to their living space on that level. But maybe that’s the state of rents in today’s Brooklyn? Overall, the house seemed (no surprise here) overpriced.
John Jay is a like 3 HSs in one building, and even if you wanted to, it’s not automatic that a kid would get in there. One of schools if for troubled kids, so first you have to be troubled. The other two have some sort of acedemic specialty you have to be interested in.
Basically, yes, the good HSs are all over crowded and hard to get into. A kid who is below avg academically but lives next door to Midwood would still have trouble getting in. High Schools are not technically part of the local school districts.
anon at 6:21, where are you getting the idea that Park Slope kids can only go to private school or John Jay? All 5th graders list their preferences for several schools within their district (district 15) that they’d like to attend. Where they are accepted depends on factors like their 4th grade test scores, report cards and attendance records, any exam/interview administered by the middle school, etc. One of the most sought after middle schools, MS 51, is in Center Slope, but there are others outside the area. I’m not saying this is a great system, in fact some otherwise qualified kids end up attending their 3rd or 4th choice school because there just aren’t enough top middle schools in the district to go around. But there is more latitude than you think.