Open House Picks
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
You also have the area with the most owners who don’t have mortgages on their homes, like so many of my elderly neighbors. Hard to foreclose on the four family purchased for 49k in 1981, or the rooming house in 84′ for 60 grand.
bed stuy boosters out in force this week.
they should be given what’s happening. you’ve got one of the highest rates of foreclosure in the city AND you’ve now got problems with jumbo rates on the few nicer houses like above.
yikes.
11:07, you obviously have never been to Stuy Heights, or Bed Stuy in general. Of course the entire neighborhood is not economically comparable to one of the wealthiest areas of Brooklyn, but your post implies that Stuy Heights is a small oasis surrounded by the urban version of Baghdad. That is certainly not the case, and even a casual walk or drive around shows differently.
And it certainly is a neighborhood, as much as any of the other smaller neighborhoods within larger ones discussed here every day. You don’t have to want to live here, or even like it, but let’s at least give Bed Stuy and Stuyvesant Heights their due as architecturally significant, culturally significant, and worthy neighborhoods to live in.
stuy heights is not a neighborhood. it is a tiny enclave within a neighborhood.
park slope is a lovely neighborhood.
while stuy heights may be lovely, the surrounding neighborhood it’s in, is certainly not.
there’s a big difference.
The Bedstuy house is beautiful but its overpriced. There was a gorgeous house in the same street (“doctor’s row” i believe its called.) That sold at the asking price of $1.2 last year. It had just as much detail.
Beadle St. is just outside EXXON’s estimate of the oil spill, which means it’s smack on top of the actual oil spill. It’s like saying you didn’t inhale all that asbestos and smoke on 9/11 at ground zero because you were across the street. Ha. Anyone seen that Erin Brockovitch movie?
There’s so much Texas Tea in the soil up there, maybe it’s worth buying so you can plant an oil well in the back yard to pay for the mortgage. Sell the drilling rights back to Exxon!
I agree with the above post about Stuyvesant Height vs. Park Slope – it rocks over here. Having lived in both hoods, I can say that I much prefer the former over the latter.
…and Bed Stuy is NOT a single neighborhood any more than “downtown” is a neighborhood in Manhattan. Eyeballing it on Google Maps, it’s about the same area as Manhattan below 8th Street or so. Would you call Ave A the same neighborhood as Broad St? Nope.
The poster who drew a contrast between Bainbridge and Stuyesant and Patchen and Myrtle was dead on (although Decatur and Stuyvesant is a problem spots – what are the cops doing about this corner?? – still, in some parts of North Stuy for instance, EVERY corner is a problem corner). Still, it’s no less safe than, say, the “prime real estate” of 18th St & 9th Ave (ie: the projects across from the Maritime Hotel) in Manhattan or the 7th Ave F stop in Park Slope (aka: Nanny Mugging Central).
The area of East 21st bordered by Caton and Church north to south and Ocean and Flatbush east to west encompass several of the Victorian Flatbush/Prospect Lefferts Gardens neighborhoods. As Guest at 4:04 stated these names were not made up by modern day realtors but were chosen by the developers in the early 1900’s when these neighborhoods were built something that is still common practice today. The area behind the Dutch Reformed Church on East 21st Street with the beautiful Neo Federal brick and limestone homes is called Albemarle & Kenmore Terrace and has been a Landmarked district since 1978. I hope this answered your question GHB.
“especially now that Bed Stuy is objectively the preferred location of all Brooklyn!”
What are you talking about? I mean no, seriously, your not serious right? Your being sarcastic.
Park Slope house looks tiny, my friend has a house that looks like that on a similar street… Greenpoint house probably isn’t such a bad deal. Maybe there’d be oil money from the settlement at some point. And considering what else is going for $750K these days, that’s not bad.
Not that it’s good, mind you — just that it’s probably not as overinflated as, say, the Park Slope house or the Bed Stuy one.