houseClinton Hill
219 Washington Avenue
Corcoran
Sunday 2-4
$2,375,000
GMAP P*Shark

housePark Slope
420 7th Street
Brown Harris Stevens
Sunday 2-4
$1,750,000
GMAP P*Shark

houseClinton Hill
99 Gates Avenue
Jac’Qui Weekes
Sunday 1-3
$1,400,000
GMAP P*Shark

houseDitmas Park
1407 Dorchester Road
Joanne Gay Real Estate
Sunday 2:30-4:30
$1,100,000
GMAP P*Shark


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  1. That’s sad about your friend, 11:43am. Do you think it’s possible having more affluent professionals of all races in a neighborhood would present a more diverse set of role models for the kids there? Or do they see educated professionals as so “other” they don’t relate? It’s frustrating for me as a 39 white kid (that’s young, right?) to see young black males stubbornly clinging to this street lifestyle, and concept of how they are supposed to be. It’s so bafflingly conformist. I really don’t believe the whole “low self-esteem” approach to social work has done a bit of good either. The kids should be told only they are responsible for what happens in their lives, and yes they’ve got it really tough but they should see their tough background as a challenge that will make them even more proud when they rise up out of it. It just seems the approach to social work is focused on pitying the kids and blaming society. Which is useless, even if there are truths to it. We should tell them something that will actually be effective at improving their lives. Not what makes ourselves feel more noble for helping them. Anyway, all this totally utterly OT off-topic, but there you go. My uninformed thoughts for the day.

  2. Does anyone know when the Clinton Hill
    name for the area started? I went to school in Bed=Stuy in the early sixties, there wasn’t a “Clinton Hill” back then.
    As for Bed Stuy being a great area.
    There are some lovely old houses, but
    the area is overpriced right now. Great buys ten years ago, even five. Now it seems at it’s max for the next few years.
    I have been in dozens of old shells over the last eight ten years, selling for
    around 100K. Completely renovated on Jefferson Avenue for 350K five years ago
    That housing project isn’t going any
    where. Prices can go up, prices can go
    down, but do you really want to live
    behind all those gates you see in the area.
    A few years ago, right before Christmas, a friend of mine was shot to
    death in a drive by, just an innocent
    bystander, in Fort Greene, on a nice block. Yes, crime happens everywhere.
    Do you really want to structure yuor life around a dangerous, yes dangerous
    nabe. What should I wear=don’t want to stick out, how late can I come home,etc.

    We grew up tough, you had to be tough
    to make it out of junior high school
    back then.
    I see the young men of today, walking
    around the area, they wouldn’t have made it out of seventh grade.
    I would live in Washington Heights before i would live in Bed Stuy.
    Better schools, better transportation,etc. After reading comments from others,I must say,
    I am getting tired of young white kids telling us what’s up.

  3. Annie, if we were scared of blacks and browns and prefer white-washed neighborhoods we would never be living in Brooklyn. We would be out on Long Island or up in Westchester where my relatives live. The people in the burbs are the people you are thinking of.

  4. What exactly does private school have to do with racism? (and my kids go to public schools). People want the BEST school for their kids, for some it’s private; smaller classes, better academics, etc. If, and it will never happent but IF I could afford it my kids would probably be in private schools. I’m happy with where they are but…you just want them to have the best education you can give them.

  5. I say it all the time this site just seems to encourage people to pat themselves on the back for buying when they did and then they freely engage in bashing other neighborhoods…perhaps to make themselves feel better about something: their investment, the fact they didn’t buy there, whatever. I am white btw, but I got to tell you that I just saw some spaced out white middle age chick panhandling and looking stoned out of her mind on PPW in Windsor Terrace the other day. Drugs and the scourge they are to people’s lives sadly happens everywhere. There most definitely is a greater diversity overall in Clinton Hill than a place like Park Slope and of course people with less economic means are struggling in ways we probably cannot understand, unless we came out of the same poverty or work with that population on a daily basis. You can pretend that because you live somewhere that seems more upscale that you are protected from this city’s great diversity. But you are all just fooling yourselves. We are all out there on the city streets, in the parks and on the subways. Now if you want to get me started on the families sending their kids to the private schools you will see me go off on what I do perceive as racism — on the part of all the families of all colors that send their kids there. But in the neighborhoods it’s all pretty much a mish-mash. Even the slope has section 8 housing.

  6. The days of decent houses in Ditmas Park for under a million were over last year, even. We went to some open houses in Ditmas last summer. The houses under or at a million needed tons of work, at a minimum $200,000. Plus the houses in that price range were small, like this one. I like small houses, but at a certain price for a smaller house you don’t want to have to do that much work.

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