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
Some people don’t LIKE Park Slope. I don’t. There’s a huge hill and a bunch of rather bland stores on 7th and 5th avenues. It’s overcrowded. There are far more interesting parts of Brooklyn that have the same amenities. What Park Slope does have is a lot of brownstone/Victorian architecture. And a park. That’s about it.
Actually, PLG on the other side of the park is preferable, from a train/geography perspective. Amenities and safety are another story.
Shame about the Clinton Hill house. I still think it’s the best pick though.
doesn’t matter.
4th avenue will eventually be zoned out of the 321 district.
Someone said:
“most people moving into the new condos on 4th avenue are single.”
Really? When half the units in the Novo development are 2BR and 3BR? They might be single NOW, but not for long. Nobody buys a 3BR if they’re not planning on having a child soon. When they could buy a 1BR co-op located on leafy North Slope brownstone blocks closer to cool restaurants and shops that young singles like to go to. These are all people who are planning on families that are buying into Novo.
4:29pm said:
“Those schools in the burbs may have nice facilities, but they produce drones. Growing up in NYC is an education all its own.”
Oh please! Like any of the kids in Park Slope are out hanging in the ‘hood getting a worldly, urban “education”. They are completely totally coddled and protected. They ARE in the suburbs. “Suburban” is an attitude, not a place. There are just as many suburban families in Brooklyn as there are anywhere else. As for someone’s point that none of the public schools in NYC are truly good on a 1st world level, that’s exactly right. I hope to send my child abroad for high school.
Today is the kinda day that makes Brooklyn such an incredible place to live.
Especially today. The trees, the leaves, the way the sun reflects off the buildings. We’ve got a lot to be proud of.
I meant that the one on Irving is across from a school.
Went to both Clinton Hill houses, the Fort Greene House, and the 9/13 HOTD, which was 202 Prospect in Prospect Heights. Interesting….
338 Clinton is a former awesome, 5-story manse, with stunning, never-painted woodwork, floors, and fireplaces throughout, fab staircase, railing, wainscoting– but it’s been chopped into crappy rentals for many years. Would take a lot of work to convert to decent condos–in which case you’d still have the awkward experience in the stair hall that you always have in such conversions–let alone into a single family. Also, unnecessary addition eats up almost the whole backyard. But the price of 2.7, per square foot, doesn’t seem all that crazy to me–the place must be 7000 sf. Could you profitably convert this to condos? Hmmm.
The one on Irving looked too dilapidated to bother going in–right next to an old church and across from a church. Forlorn looking realtor sitting on front porch. Poor realtor.
The one on Lafayette in Fort Greene ain’t gonna land 2.495– no frickin’ way. It has a few details–amazing fireplace in front parlor, particularly, and nice floor to ceiling windows. But the kitchen sucks, several original floors are gone, and it’s a lower double duplex, meaning the bedrooms are on the ground floor (ick), and one of them, while charming in its feature of a wood stove, is very small and made rather awkward for furniture because of, um, the wood stove. Lafayette is a beautiful street here, but it’s also loud and busy.
Finally, the HOTD on Prospect was actually pretty great. A parlor kitchen that worked well, albeit with old apps, gorgeous back deck with glass panels to let light below, huge, 131-foot backyard with good landscaping and pond, nice details throughout. Only problem is that the house is a little small–not very deep. Oh, and I have no idea if one can expect this high a price in this neighborhood–kinda doubtin’….
And that’s your open house picks reporter for today. Cheers.
It’s taking a lot of people some time to get adjusted to the fact that the world is moving towards urbanism. Say what you want about being “green” but this is how we are going to…and how we are going to HAVE to live in the coming decades.
We can’t continue building in the burbs for eternity.
The cities are the wave of the future. We are just now on the cusp of their rebirth. More and more people around the world are gravitating back to the urban areas, even those in suburbia are wanting more “main street” feelings.
The suburbs are a dying breed. A lot of people would indeed choose to raise their children in such a society. Here in Brooklyn, we are seeing this take shape quite fervently.
I think it’s quite exciting, and after being raised in suburbia, I look forward to raising my children in a city so that they are exposed to all life has to offer…not a simple-minded theory that some grass and a pool are what are going to produce youth that will be able to take charge of this ever diversifying and complicated world we now live in.
I absolutely agree with 4:29. They are getting important life lessons and will be able (hopefully) to get along with people from all walks of life.