Open House Picks
Clinton Hill 338 Clinton Avenue Brown Harris Stevens Sunday 1:30-3 $2,700,000 Price Cut! GMAP P*Shark Fort Greene 136 Lafayette Avenue Corcoran Sunday 12-2 $2,350,000 GMAP P*Shark South Slope 258 13th Street Heights Berkeley Sunday 12-2 $1,700,000 GMAP P*Shark Clinton Hill 15 Irving Place R. J. Chappell Realty Sunday 12-2 $939,000 GMAP P*Shark
Clinton Hill
338 Clinton Avenue
Brown Harris Stevens
Sunday 1:30-3
$2,700,000 Price Cut!
GMAP P*Shark
Fort Greene
136 Lafayette Avenue
Corcoran
Sunday 12-2
$2,350,000
GMAP P*Shark
South Slope
258 13th Street
Heights Berkeley
Sunday 12-2
$1,700,000
GMAP P*Shark
Clinton Hill
15 Irving Place
R. J. Chappell Realty
Sunday 12-2
$939,000
GMAP P*Shark
What enormous hill in Park Slope are you talking about? Of course there is a slope, hence the name of the neighborhood. But it’s a rather gradual incline, not Mount Everest.
what is all this crap about a hill in Park Slope. Yes, there is a hill. It’s not a savage mountain or something that you can get trapped on in a whiteout and have to eat your buddy to survive. There are also pigeons. And air.
Another thing that’s better about PS than Greenpoint is that living there won’t give you cancer.
Did anyone go to open house for the abomination that is 467 14th Street, listed by Corcoran for the whopping price of $3.195 million? From the pictures, it looks like a McMansion on the inside–really tacky.
http://corcoran.com/property/listing.aspx?Region=NYC&ListingID=1070675&ohDat=9/16/2007%2012:00:00%20AM;
There are really nice stores off both the Lorimer and Graham Ave stops, as well as a highly-rated and not crowded elementary school. 4th Ave has none of that. And, there’s not an enormous hill. And I don’t think people buying frame houses on the South Slope can snipe about the housing stock in Williamsburg.
Williamsburg and Greenpoint are for a totally different crowd than Park Slope. It’s like apples and oranges, really.
Not too many traditional brownstones in those areas either, so not completely relevant, either.
There’s no difference to living off the lorimer or graham stop as there is living near 4th.
We have all that in Williamsburg/Greenpoint, admittedly without the nice park. On the other hand, it’s much nicer than living on 4th avenue and thinking you’re in Park Slope.
I think the biggest thing PS has going for it at this point is it’s a brand name for familystyle brownstone Brooklyn. I’m not saying other parts of Brooklyn aren’t marketed to a different crowd, (cough, Williamsburg), but Park Slope has a been hyped beyond all belief and reason as “the” place to have your little low-impact urban lifestyle. Except, again, it’s not that nice. There’s this really big hill. Parking is terrible. Schools are crowded. I honestly think Williamsburg and Greenpoint have better options.
I also went to the 60 St. Mark’s Avenue house listed by BP (http://brooklynproperties.com/house160.htm).
The positives: nicely configured as a 1-family, bright, some original moldings and details remain, nice garden-level floor, very well maintained. Felt warm and cozy. Location pretty good although close to busy Flatbush.
Negatives: the front door kind of sticks out as not exactly fitting in (obviously not original); they built a sunroom that eats up a good chunk of the yard; new treads on the staircases which means they don’t creak (good) but are not original and look kind of cheap (bad).
In my opinion the biggest negative for this house was the fact that the owners instructed the brokers to have PEOPLE TAKE THEIR SHOES OFF for the OPEN HOUSE! I find this completely ridiculous, arrogant, and entitled. How anyone thinks they can get away with holding an OPEN HOUSE and making prospective buyers leave their shoes at the door is beyond me. What a sense of entitlement. There was no carpeting in the house (which still wouldn’t excuse it), so I find it hard to fathom that they had the gall to ask that of potential buyers. Suck it up and deal with some “dirt” if you actually want to sell your house. Even if I loved the house and wanted it, out of principle I wouldn’t make an offer because of this.
You’re right, 8:58.
The price premium paid to live in Park Slope probably doesn’t make for a financial bargain when it comes to schools.
This just proves exactly how much people like Park Slope and want to live there.
Most people moving here come from Manhattan anyway. They don’t think of it as paying a million more dollars to live in Park Slope. They look at it as paying a whole lot LESS to live in a much bigger space in many instances. Most moving to Park Slope are not from cheaper areas in Brooklyn, so your logic doesn’t really play much into reality.
Despite the hatred by some of Park Slope, a ton of it has jealousy written all over it. Someone just denounced the neighborhood for having crappy stores.
Well they may not be all up to your standards, but at least we HAVE stores. Some of these other, nearly equally expensive neighborhoods have little to no services…stores, restaurants, banks and grocery stores. Part of the great thing about city life is being able to live a couple blocks away from Union Market, any bank, post office, library, park, many fine restaurants, shops if I need some shoes, etc.
Otherwise, I’d buy a car and move to the burbs.
People can debate forever about public elementary K-5 schools in Brooklyn, but I always always end up at this question:
Why pay $1 million more for a house in PS 321 or PS-younameit when you can send your child to the best private school in NYC for 5 years for $100,000?
Private schools are always better than even the best public school. And now that PS 321 is so full of rich kids, you might actually find more economic diversity at certain private schools who make an effort to offer scholarships to top performing low income kids. Put that extra million dollars towards college tuition instead. It’ll cost $500,000 per kid for 4 years’ ivy league tuition by the time this generation enters college.