Open House Picks

I am also a woman who walks home from the R train (in my case the 25th st stop) at night. 4th Ave is always busy – people out on their stoops, bodegas, etc – there’s even a church that has services most nights until 11:00 or so! I feel totally safe. Same with 5th Ave. There are more people out in the evening that during the day.

That may be 2 hats you eat, Kuroko. Why in the world are you looking in Greenwood Heights?

Speaking of subways, I often think about how the city of NY is not ready for all these neighborhoods in Brooklyn to be populated by commuters who work in Manhattan. For most of the history of these nabes, the residents worked locally in Brooklyn and drove cars. From South Slope to Bay Ridge on the R line. Right? They still do, most of them. But now there are more and more commuters, as houses transfer from the older homeowners to the new ones, and as new big condos are being built. The city needs to run the R train more frequently at night, and they need to add the express train on the F line. All that.

that link you sent describes 1 condo and 1 co-op, only the former lists any kind of outdoor space which is described as ‘balcony rights’. there’s a big difference between living in your own house with front and back yards and the ability to add/change/knock down/build up and living under the iron fist of a co-op board or in a souless yuppie condo, kuroko. re: price – there’s a 20×100 vacant lot on 19th street that sold for over half a million dollars last year. re: your question about R train – i’m a woman who walks from that train home after dark, and at odd hours, frequently. i’ve never once felt strange or threatened about it. when i rented in the north slope my trunk was broken into every month or 2. here? never in 5 years. panhandlers and muggers seem to operate closer to the park. just because a place ain’t full of white professionals doesn’t mean it isn’t safe.