houseFort Greene
129 South Oxford Street
Brooklyn Properties
Sunday 12:30-2:30
$2,500,000
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houseFort Greene
297 Vanderbilt Avenue
Douglas Elliman
Sat 1-3, Sun 1-3
$2,000,000
GMAP P*Shark

houseClinton Hill
125 Cambridge Place
Real Property One
Sat 12-2, Sun 12-3
$2,000,000
GMAP P*Shark

houseSouth Slope
228 14th Street
Corcoran
Sun 12-2
$1,200,000
GMAP P*Shark


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  1. Nero, there will always be a succession of young middle-class emigres from the suburbs who can staff our restaurants for a time until either they move on to greater things or are defeated by the city and move on to make room for the next thing. And for more grubby tasks we will not lack for poorer people who will be willing to live in starker conditions in less glamorous neighborhoods than are generally profiled at this blog.

    What Brooklyn will lose is the not-quite-prosperous enough middle class, and good riddance to them! In their place the fine brownstones of Brooklyn can be restored by a better, and yes more enlightened upper class, people of all colors and backgrounds who realize that there is nothing wrong with class privilege as long as it is not accompanied by race and ethnic privilege.

  2. >oh and your enlightened wealthy comment was pretty gross. if that’s the kinda hood you strive for, i feel sorry for you.<

    let’s face it, the middle class is doomed. the attitude of the privileged has reached grotesque proportions and now brownstoner has not one house in its openhouse list under $1 million.

    now bloomberg wants to charge the people $8 bucks a pop to go to manhattan, enclave of the “enlightened wealthy.”

    well, my question is, i wonder who’s going to wait on ’em?

  3. yeah, I think the expenses of Brooklyn vs. burbs is pretty much even when you balance everthing out. The biggest variable is public school vs. private, but that depends on where in Brooklyn you live. However, we’ve seen houses we like in areas we like in the burbs for under 1M–whereas the cheapest thing in Brooklyn we’d even consider has been 1.6M. That’s a big difference.

    10:57–I’m talking about Brooklyn real estate and the expenses as compared to other options. Sorry, but that is on topic.

  4. I am so tired of people talking up the suburbs on this blog. If people are interest in the suburbs they should go find a blog dedicated to the suburbs and stop wasting people’s time on this site.

  5. Of course one also has to add the costs of owning two cars, in the suburbs too. That’s hefty. In Brooklyn many people have only one car for the household, but even more have no car at all.

  6. No I’m talking residential. The taxes varry a lot. We saw a 3 story in Carrol Gardens with 6K in taxes, a 4 story in the Heights (which we couldn’t possibly afford) with 11K, and a 4 story in the slope with I think 6 or 7K annual taxes. The rest where in the 3-5 range.

    But the point is I pay 11K in city income tax. Add 4K in property tax, and that’s 15K, what I’d be paying in the burbs.

  7. Our property tax on our 2-story plus basement Brooklyn limestone is $3,000 per year. Brooklyn has the least expensive property taxes I’ve seen anywhere.

    What’s $11,000 per year? Must be a commercial/residential mix building.

  8. CH & FG are beautiful neighborhoods. The houses are lovely and many New Yorkers lucky enough to be looking for homes for their families in the 2M range would rather have a beautiful old brownstone that needs some work than a condo in a building where they must tolerate the noise and pollution of the manhattan, not to mention that of their neighbors. Why is this so unbelievable? Every neighborhood used to be something else and used to be cheaper. Get over it.

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