Open House Picks
Park Slope 52 Berkeley Place Brooklyn Properties Sunday 12-2 $2,750,000 GMAP P*Shark Midwood 490 East 24th Street Fillmore Sat 2-4, Sun 2-4 $1,177,000 GMAP P*Shark Sunset Park 515 45th Street Century 21 Sunday 12:30-2 $999,000 GMAP P*Shark Bedford Stuyvesant 696 Halsey Street FSBO Sunday 12-2 $690,000 GMAP P*Shark
Park Slope
52 Berkeley Place
Brooklyn Properties
Sunday 12-2
$2,750,000
GMAP P*Shark
Midwood
490 East 24th Street
Fillmore
Sat 2-4, Sun 2-4
$1,177,000
GMAP P*Shark
Sunset Park
515 45th Street
Century 21
Sunday 12:30-2
$999,000
GMAP P*Shark
Bedford Stuyvesant
696 Halsey Street
FSBO
Sunday 12-2
$690,000
GMAP P*Shark
Wow, not one single comment on the Bed-Stuy house. But a lot of people saying “Why is everything on here over a million?” Um, scroll down, people.
AY will produce instant gentrification east of Flatbush Avenue, drive up property prices, displace minority renters, result in the introduction of new amenities, goods and services to the community, reduce crime, improve schools and, most importantly, gives Brooklyn the professional sport franchise and arena residents so desperately grave and desire. I’m very excited about AY, downtown and brownstone Brooklyn overall.
I fully expect my $2M brownstone to be worth $4M by 2020 when AY is finally completed. In the meantime, I’ll just continue to enjoy my home and great neighborhood until I’m ready to retire, sell and move to the Caribbean.
If people don’t know anyone who has good taste AND a comfortable home, that’s sad. Get out more!
As for “it’s not an interior design contest” this whole thread is all about commenting on real estate for sale. We’re being asked for our opinions. We have a right to our opinions. Some of us here are buyers. These homes’ sellers are trying to sell to us. One would think they’d like to hear the feedback. Why does this have to be explained?
Have to say, Midwood and Ditmas neighborhood boosters have officially become the most defensive of all the neighborhoods. I’ve seen this happen anytime anyone critiques a Victorian in Ditmas/Midwood for any reason. The boosters jump all over them.
A house is a place to live in not a museum. People have to feel comfortable with their furniture, it’s not an interior design contest.
I was addressing 4:29pm, in my post at 5:23pm. Forgot to say that.
Just because people don’t like some of these Victorian interiors, doesn’t mean they want a Mexican fiesta house or an all-white loft house. Don’t overreact. There’s certainly such thing as ugly, badly done Victorian decor, which we see more often than we see it done well, let’s face it. “Antique” doesn’t have to mean clutter. Good taste is good taste, using pretty much the same principals, no matter what era your furniture is coming from.
To answer 4:02’s question, the furniture would not necessarily have to be super modern, but I wouldn’t put rocking chairs, big sectionals and lazboy recliners in a house like that. Any chairs and sofas that have legs that show, instead of heavy bulky furniture with upholstery reaching all the way to the floor, will allow the “bones” of a house to show, the hardwood floors to show, and elevates all the furniture off the floor visually, giving it a less heavy appearance. Also modern houses like that one, with lots of windows and with white walls, shouldn’t have solid dark colored upholstery. Try bright colors or pale colors.
i also have two broker friends who paint a very different picture. they have said that anything remotely decent in park slope is gone within a few weeks and more often than not, over the asking price. i hear prosepct lefferts garden and prospect heights are cooling slightly, but they both have commented that park slope has been one of the top three most requested neighborhoods for properties (and that includes manhattan as well).
interesting, especially considering how much everyone likes to trash talk park slope.
anyway, i think ay will have much more of an affect on the neighborhoods to the north like ft. greene, clinton hill and prospect heights. they will have the south facing sun blocked. otherwise, i think anything in park slope is going to continue to fair just fine. i don’t think in general that prices will suffer at all from ay. i think the opposite it true.
I guess the earlier poster wanted it to look like some cold, industrial space…like a manufacturing plant or crime lab or something. That’s the way of modern design these days, which is why you see so many pieces of sh*t on the market.