Open House Picks
Clinton Hill 219 Washington Avenue Corcoran Sunday 2-4 $2,375,000 GMAP P*Shark Park Slope 420 7th Street Brown Harris Stevens Sunday 2-4 $1,750,000 GMAP P*Shark Clinton Hill 99 Gates Avenue Jac’Qui Weekes Sunday 1-3 $1,400,000 GMAP P*Shark Ditmas Park 1407 Dorchester Road Joanne Gay Real Estate Sunday 2:30-4:30 $1,100,000 GMAP P*Shark
Clinton Hill
219 Washington Avenue
Corcoran
Sunday 2-4
$2,375,000
GMAP P*Shark
Park Slope
420 7th Street
Brown Harris Stevens
Sunday 2-4
$1,750,000
GMAP P*Shark
Clinton Hill
99 Gates Avenue
Jac’Qui Weekes
Sunday 1-3
$1,400,000
GMAP P*Shark
Ditmas Park
1407 Dorchester Road
Joanne Gay Real Estate
Sunday 2:30-4:30
$1,100,000
GMAP P*Shark
I went by the open house at 420 7th Street in Park Slope. Cute little house, operative word here being “little”. It is two stories with a finished basement. Positives: nicely planted front and rear gardens; good storage space in basement; good light; parlor, dining room and master bedroom have nice details; office in 2nd floor extension is well done. Negatives: low ceiling (I’d guess 6’2″) in basement makes all the rooms oppressively cramped – I’m 5’8″ and I felt like ducking my head; kitchen is small and 1/2 bath off it is the size of an airplane bathroom; the only full bath needs updating; 2nd bedroom’s window looks out right onto neighbor’s deck; hallways and stairways are exceedingly, claustrophobically narrow.
The building next door which was originally the same size as this one added a 3rd story. The Brown Harris agent on the scene did not have a clear answer on this building’s FAR, though he thinks the 2nd floor extension/office is not listed with the buildings department (ie, it reduces any outstanding FAR). Also, it’s hard to imagine where you could add a second full bathroom.
I thought this was a nice but very cramped house. The $1.75mil is aggressive, especially since it is NOT three stories.
article about Clinton Hill from the New York Times.
LIVING IN | CLINTON HILL
Into the Big Leagues, With Prices to Match
By SUZANNE HAMLIN
Published: January 9, 2005
Originally a large parcel of land owned by the Dutch, Clinton Hill became a neighborhood in the 1800’s, a rural retreat for some of New York’s most prominent industrialists, who built their imposing mansions along Washington and Clinton Avenues. In 1875, Charles Pratt, an oil executive and philanthropist, built a mansion on Clinton Avenue, followed by one for each of his four sons as they married. Subsequent neighbors included the Bristols (of the Bristol-Myers company) and the Underwoods (of typewriter fame).
Aren’t there folks out there who actually made it to any of these open houses? It would be so nice if that information made it’s way into this forum. I would love to know what people who went to look at these houses felt about them after they saw them. people really interested and able to make a purchase instead of all this inane babble! Yawn it is such a bore.
The best house on the house tour today was the Washington Avenue house for sale. (and no I’m not the owner). It was truly beautiful and if someone gives me 2 mill I’ll be able to buy it.
Excuse me. You live in a city with the largest number of public school children and you choose to define the entire system by the kids you see on your commute. I hope your future children are more open minded than you are. And what makes you think that private school kids have it so great. Let me tell you about all the pot they are smoking on the sidewalks by St. Anns when they should be in school. Those little freaks are not kids I would like my children to become either. But I would not lump all St. Anns kids in to that category, because that would be too easy, wouldn’t it. I guess black culture has got you down huh, Imus?
7:49pm,
I don’t have kids yet, but when I do, if I live somewhere without excellent public schools, such as Bed Stuy, I’ll definitely send my kids to better private schools if I can afford it.
Unfortunately, the public school kids I come across every day on the subway act like animals. They swear constantly in front of old people and little kids, dress like “pimps and ho’s”, and have the manners of five years olds (both males and females alike).
Why would anybody with the money to afford private school send their kids to a school where they’d be surrounded by such losers? What benefit could there possibly be?
Thank you Christopher. I was the OP about the private schools and race issue. It astounds me how people think they are above race and above class and above money and yet these same folks who are so above it all have merely done whatever they can to insulate themselves from, “them.” And if to the person above who thinks, “them,” is the folks too ignorant to want the best for their kids, that is just misinformed. All parents want the best for their children. So if it seems funky and cool to live in an area, and then you send your children to a private school that is mainly one ethnicity or one economic class then what does that make the rest of the neighborhood…a backdrop for your children to consider how the other half lives perhaps? Get over it, you all live in a city with a lot of those other people. You are the other people to some of them as well.
Its really amazing to read people talking about real estate acting shocked that the issue of race would be brought into it. But this is all about race. Widespread racial discrimination in the housing market is very well documented. The racist violence that Black folks frequently encounter when moving into “white” neighborhoods is one piece of this. But so is the way that neighborhoods are “turned.” Here the fights over perceptions (whether a neighborhood is “excitingly diverse” or “a ghetto”) must be recognized as more than benign factual description precisely because it pushes the supposedly impersonal market forces that are pricing people of color out of the neighborhoods they have lived in all their lives. Talking up a nabe may not be as violent as throwing a fire-bomb through the window of the first Black family on the block — but they can both drive people from their homes.
Similarly, it is ridiculous to read assertions that sending ones kids to private schools has nothing to do with race. Anyone with even a passing familiarity with the history of public education knows better.
Park Slope 420 7 St: $1.75M for 1,552 gross square ft. equals…$1,128 per square foot. Wow. That seems quite high to me. Pass.