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
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.
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.
Anon 12:22AM next time go to bed a bit earlier the suburbs aren’t lilly white anymore either.
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.
2112 Albemarle Terrace had a openhouse today. Asking 845K. There are still some interesting houses under 1M…
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.
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.
I think one problem is that Brownstoner himself rarely comments in the comments section and morons take over. When Brownstoner participates, the jerks seem to lay low.
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.