Open House Picks
Crown Heights 836 Prospect Place Fillmore Sat 12-2, Sun 1-3 $1,750,000 GMAP P*Shark Clinton Hill 107 St. James Place Community Home Sales Sunday 1-4 $1,300,000 GMAP P*Shark South Slope 213 13th Street Corcoran Sunday 11-1 $1,050,000 GMAP P*Shark Stuyvesant Heights 385 Lewis Avenue Douglas Elliman Saturday 1:30-3:30 $785,000 GMAP P*Shark
Crown Heights
836 Prospect Place
Fillmore
Sat 12-2, Sun 1-3
$1,750,000
GMAP P*Shark
Clinton Hill
107 St. James Place
Community Home Sales
Sunday 1-4
$1,300,000
GMAP P*Shark
South Slope
213 13th Street
Corcoran
Sunday 11-1
$1,050,000
GMAP P*Shark
Stuyvesant Heights
385 Lewis Avenue
Douglas Elliman
Saturday 1:30-3:30
$785,000
GMAP P*Shark
jp at April 21, 2007 4:11 PM
None of the garden level is legal living space? You have no idea what you’re talking about. Windows front and back (adequate size visible in first interior photo); door at front and at back; obviously not more than 50% below grade; what the hell is illegal about it?
Anyone who equate westchester with indianna or Allentown has not been there in the past 5 years. I suggest some field trips before you make stupid comments. You’ll be surprised.
10:23–what forum?
if you have to ask why to stay living in what many (myself included) consider one of the greatest cities in the world, you should probably move on.
but then if you are only looking for more space for the least amount of money possible, why not move to evansville, indiana?
10:09am,
You’re making a great point. The only reason you might choose Brooklyn is if the extra fifteen minutes commuting time matters or if you prefer the subway to driving.
The main draw is Brooklyn’s stores, restaurants, and street life which you’d be able to access by walking a few blocks. There’s also the “energy of city living” which I’m sure is lacking in Westchester.
I’d say, if you can afford it, Brooklyn would be a more fun place to live. If you’ve already got kids and your budget tops out at 1.5million, I’d probably choose Westchester.
You should post your question in the forum. You’d get lots of interesting answers.
Not to spark a huge debate here, but I have been contemplating leaving the city (B’lyn/Manhattan) for Westchester for the reasons mentioned above – much cheaper housing; not a bad commute; etc… Please tell me why I should stay in Brookyln when a 3600 SF brownstone will cost over $1.7 million (and then will require $500K in renovations) when I could buy a huge, gorgeous house in Westchester in mint condition for under $1.6M. Plus, the commute is not really that much longer. I love living in B’lyn, but I finding it harder and harder to justify staying here… Please tell me why I should….
westchester is nice enough.
if you crave the ultimate in everything that is NOT city living.
comparing the horrorshow which is suburban ny, nj and ct to manhattan or brooklyn is almost as ridiculous as comparing allentown to brooklyn.
westchester is where you go to die.
some of us aren’t quite ready yet.
I’m actually considering buying a 5 bedroom farmhouse with a barn and a pond on 4 acres for just under a million. The commute to my office in midtown is an hour and five minutes, and I think I can handle it.
Move over East Williamsburg. Make room for Bushwick Heights!
Allentown, PA is a nice enough place, but if you work in NYC, it can be a tough commute.
I was thinking about buying a six bedroom farmhouse with a barn, carriage house, pond, on 43 wooded acres for $289,000 but the walk to the subway was a bit too much. I might retire there, though.