Open House Picks: Bed Stuy Edition
Bedford Stuyvesant 454A Greene Avenue FSBO Sunday 12-2 $875,000 GMAP P*Shark Bedford Stuyvesant 63 Hart Street Douglas Elliman Saturday 4-6 $779,000 GMAP P*Shark Bedford Stuyvesant 349 Hancock Street Julien, 212-991-8404 Sat & Sun by Appointment $650,000 GMAP P*Shark
Bedford Stuyvesant
454A Greene Avenue
FSBO
Sunday 12-2
$875,000
GMAP P*Shark
Bedford Stuyvesant
63 Hart Street
Douglas Elliman
Saturday 4-6
$779,000
GMAP P*Shark
Bedford Stuyvesant
349 Hancock Street
Julien, 212-991-8404
Sat & Sun by Appointment
$650,000
GMAP P*Shark
200k a low salary in NYC? I make under 100k. I bought my three story on the worst block in Clinton Hill five years ago, and now my tenants pay most of my mortgage. (BTW block is still questionable, but house is great). It is all about choices. Just have to be willing to look beyond the obvious.
Just because it’s plaster doesn’t mean it can’t be made smooth, 9:28pm. Choice of wall materials is more about considering sound absorbing qualities, and the likelihood of growing mold, etc.
I just bought a brownstone in Stuy Heights. No shootings here. A lot of nice families and people talking on stoops. If that’s putting up red lights for you, then best to spend 2-3x’s as much to live in a more crowded, more established neighborhood.
I love how someone is always trying to scare people away from Bed-Stuy and it is such a huge area that one really needs to pay attention to which part the more dangerous things are happening. In general not the Heights area. I wouldn’t hang out at night on Marcus Garvey and Fulton nor would I hang out on Madison between Howard and Ralph. It is less safe past Madison and past Malcolm X which is where that is and it is not adviseable to hang out at Fulton near Marcus Garvey. To say imply a shooting on Hancock between Broadway and Bushwich is anywhere near this area is ridiculous.
Fine, I suppose these scare tactics will just mean the prices won’t go up as fast.
i had plaster walls in my new apartment and I HATED them. They were ugly and dusty. So I put sheetrock up on them. I am a newbie to the renovation scene so I didn’t know that I had options. But I like the smooth walls. Just because something is old does it always mean it’s better.
That shooting was on Hancock between Broadway and Bushwick Aves — not even Bed Stuy. Someone was, however, killed at Fulton and Marcus Garvey on Friday night in a drive-by shooting, and someone was shot this afternoon on Madison between Ralph and Howard.
Jumping in on the sheetrock vs. plaster discussion earlier in the thread: well why is it in L.A. in the historic houses they ONLY do new plaster walls? And there are plenty contractors willing and capable of putting up new plaster walls? Nobody would be caught dead putting up sheetrock in a craftsmen bungalow or 1920’s Spanish Colonial in L.A. To me this confirms the contractors in Brooklyn are overpriced for the actual skills they offer. Too many newbies here.
9:24, if you have details about the shooting on Hancock, please share because I’d like to know. I’ve read nothing about this in the NYPost police blotter (admittedly not the most authoritative source). We’ve lived on Hancock for 2 years.
1:09, I’m not sure what you mean about having to “carry yourself” a certain way on Tompkins – I assure you I’m a pretty non-threatening looking individual and yet I often shop on Tompkins. Granted I don’t do so in the middle of the night.
For the answer, look at the facts. Ask a realtor who the house buyers are. They’ll confirm a starter home in NYC is an apartment or condo. The vast majority of people who buy a house are people who have a condo or co-op to sell first.