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Stuyvesant Heights 404 Stuyvesant Avenue Archive! Halstead Sunday 2-4 $1,550,000 GMAP P*Shark Park Slope 261 11th Street Two Trees Sunday 1:30-3:30 $1,350,000 GMAP P*Shark Midwood 662 East 24th Street Corcoran Sunday 12:30-2 $995,000 GMAP P*Shark Greenpoint 121 Beadel Street Douglas Elliman Sunday 1-3 $759,000 GMAP P*Shark
Stuyvesant Heights
404 Stuyvesant Avenue Archive!
Halstead
Sunday 2-4
$1,550,000
GMAP P*Shark
Park Slope
261 11th Street
Two Trees
Sunday 1:30-3:30
$1,350,000
GMAP P*Shark
Midwood
662 East 24th Street
Corcoran
Sunday 12:30-2
$995,000
GMAP P*Shark
Greenpoint
121 Beadel Street
Douglas Elliman
Sunday 1-3
$759,000
GMAP P*Shark
proud to call it home at, oh, around a million.
at around 1.5million they’d be a fool to call it home.
I just came back from the Stuyvesant Heights listing. Wow! It is amazing. Didn’t get to see the mechanicals, but what I did see was warm, inviting, and detail-popping beautiful! Of course, every new home is going to need work, but it looks to have been loveling maintained. I hope it goes to a good owner who plans on living here for a while. Anyone would be proud to call it home.
I wish I could get all of you people in one place.
Oh how I would beat the living daylights out of you.
Erin,
The area referred to by GHB, is not marked in yellow but blue and was referred to as Flatbush Avenue Corridor not Vandeveer Park. I think that GHB was referring to what this map calls Albemarle Kenmore Terrace. I didn’t know that Victorian Flatbush has the largest number of free standing victorian homes in the country!
I find it really funny how everyone gets so defensive about their neighborhoods on this forum.
Actually, 12:51, it’s the neighborhoods with more expensive houses that will be affected by higher interest rates on Jumbo loans – many houses in Bed Stuy are relatively affordable and can be bought with a conforming loan (ie: $533K conforming loan for a 2 family) and supplemented by a second mortgage or a home equity loan for the balance. No so for Park Slopers with house sales of $2M and such. Manhattan is hurting too, with apartments going for $1M plus.
I’m not here to boost Bed Stuy – any neighborhood has problems. In Bed Stuy, it’s certain buildings’ maitenence issues, certain rowdy streets and those stupid notes from “Michael” offering to buy your house for cash (who the hell is this Michael guy anyway??? hmmm… maybe he figures into all those foreclosure dots in Bed Stuy… ya think?), as much as in Park Slope it’s street muggings, self righteous parenting and some REALLY overpriviledged kids and in Greenpoint it’s a huge, massive, underground oil spill which will be giving everyone in the neighborhood cancer, parkinson’s disease and severe respiratory issues for many, many years to come.
Nowhere is perfect – just pick your preferred variety of imperfectness, OK? And don’t act like your neighborhood is better, because it isn’t. There are a few foreclosure dots in Park Slope too, see. Seems the wealthy sometimes have financial difficulty too.
Once we all admit our neighborhoods have problems, we can all start getting over it and getting on with life. Can’t we all just get along?
GHB –
Some of the area you are inquiring about belonged to a grand development of Victorian wood frame homes known as VANDERVEER PARK, the first of its kind in Flatbush, predating even Prospect Park South. It was also, by far, the largest. Unfortunately, very few of these homes survive today.
http://home.att.net/~ebasics/flatbush2.html
Vanderveer Park is marked in yellow:
http://home.att.net/~ebasics/maps.html
The rest of the area in question also had freestanding wood frame homes, but these, with the exception of TENNIS COURT, were developed on a more ad hoc basis, either house by house or block by block.
Best,
Erin Joslyn
To GHB and B Squared. Kenmore Terrace and Albemarle Terrace are two lovely dead end streets off of E. 21st Street. We’re actually north of Albemarle ROAD (not Church), and south of Church Ave. (not Caton) And yes we are W of Flatbush and East of Ocean. There are two lovely houses on the other side of E. 21st that are a part of the district as well. Our little nabe built by Slee & Bryson in 1916-1917, is supposedly the first planned community to incorporate garages for automobiles. And rumor has it a few of the homes were rented by the old Vitagraph (?) movie studio to house their movie stars.
BTW-We lost one of our grand old oak trees during the storm last week. It fell right on one of the homes on Albemarle which sustained NO DAMAGE WHATSOEVER. Let’s here it for bricks and limestone!!
My grandparents and many of their siblings purchased homes on Decatur and Bainbridge in the 40’s and 50’s. These were beautiful blocks back then and have remained so through the years. Some of the older residents don’t have mortagages or didn’t have mortgages when they sold to their children or other relations but others do. Mortgages were taken out to build homes in the South for retirement, to help their children purchase homes, to finance their childrens and grandchildrens education, etc… We also know of unscrupulous mortgage brokers and general contractors who ripped off many of the elderly homeowners without their children knowing. Brownstoner profiled a case in Clinton Hill of an elderly Doctor whose home was basically stolen from her. I don’t know if this is why Bed-Stuy has the highest rate of foreclosure in Brooklyn or if it’s because of the newer residents who took out Interest Only/ARM or other creative financing in order to get a brownstone.
Brooklyn’s Serious Mortgage Foreclosure Outbreak
http://gowanuslounge.blogspot.com/2007/03/brooklyns-serious-mortgage-foreclosure.html