Open House Picks
Park Slope 398 Bergen Street FKG Real Estate Sunday 1-3 $1,875,000 GMAP P*Shark Park Slope 99 St. Marks Place Aguayo & Huebener Sunday 1-3 $1,595,000 GMAP P*Shark Bedford Stuyvesant 119 Bainbridge Street Brooklyn Properties Sunday 12-2 $1,300,000 GMAP P*Shark Crown Heights 1190 Dean Street Brown Harris Stevens Sunday 12-1:30 $985,000 GMAP P*Shark
Park Slope
398 Bergen Street
FKG Real Estate
Sunday 1-3
$1,875,000
GMAP P*Shark
Park Slope
99 St. Marks Place
Aguayo & Huebener
Sunday 1-3
$1,595,000
GMAP P*Shark
Bedford Stuyvesant
119 Bainbridge Street
Brooklyn Properties
Sunday 12-2
$1,300,000
GMAP P*Shark
Crown Heights
1190 Dean Street
Brown Harris Stevens
Sunday 12-1:30
$985,000
GMAP P*Shark
It’s pathetic how the CH people on this board have to CONSTANTLY reassure themselves and others. When you see that kind of crap going on, it’s just more evidence of CH’s supreme suckitude.
I would never seriously entertain the prospect of living in Crown Heights or even owning property there. However, I’m glad Crown Heights is there if only because it makes the rest of Brooklyn’s neighborhoods look good.
Bought in Crown Heights a couple years ago and am thrilled with it…
I agree, 8:28am, what you said about 3:13’s claims. It was NOTHING like I’ve heard about the Park Slope of 20 years ago. And my knowledge is based on hearing it from people who lived in PS, who love the place and have no interest in portraying it inaccurately. A friend of mine grew up in Park Slope and her parents bought a house there 30 years ago. And my husband bought a coop apartment there 11 years ago that we sold last year. My husband was on a prime North Park Slope block, closer to 5th Ave, and he and every single person I’ve ever met who lived in Park Slope at that time says 5th Ave was a dump. All grubby bodegas. No faboo restaurants or shops. I myself moved to Brooklyn only a few years ago and even in my time I saw 5th Ave improve immensely. What is 3:13 saying??
7:55pm, I wasn’t saying Park Slopers bashed Park Slope pioneers. I said Park Slopers often sound very superior and judgemental towards the new generation of similar pioneer personalities who are venturing into fringe areas of Brooklyn. Totally different statement.
These arguments saying Crown Heights is the same as Park Slope was 30 years ago, 20 years ago, etc etc, are completely flawed. You can’t separate all the neighborhoods of Brownstone Brooklyn or NYC from each other, when prices are tripling, quadrupling, skyrocketing in Park Slope and Clinton Hill and Ft. Greene. One neighborhood is not going to be at 1970’s prices forever, while the neighboring one is 2007 prices. The high prices in Park Slope sends the prices up in the other historic brownstone neighborhoods. I’m also skeptical Crown Heights is at a million-dollar-house level yet, though. But it’s not at 1970’s prices either. Dream on. Lastly, people rathera annoyingly keep using the bubble formula to determine what is a good investment. Stop thinking 2-year flip and start thinking 10 years. Because that’s the norm, and we are back to normal now. It used to be to make a nice profit after 10 years in a home was a very good thing. Not something to look down on as not good enough.
3:13 –
where did you live in PS??
I’ve lived here for 17 years and there was only one bodega and no other business on my stretch of (center slope)5th ave. maybe 7th ave, but not 5th ave. and it was a bit more dangerous, all my frienda at the time had been mugged in the neighborhood at least once, one time was even in front of cousin john’s at 8 am on a weekday!
One should judge the quality of Brooklyn neighborhoods on a scientific basis. I suggest the hip-hop method: The more “shout outs†a neighborhood gets in rap songs, the more likely the neighborhood is an unsafe place to raise children in. While the number of shout outs for Crown Heights, Bed-Stuy and even Brownsville has decreased dramatically since the late nineties, they are still referenced in songs circulating on the mix-tape circuit. I note that Park Slope and Carroll Gardens have never received such “shout outsâ€.
People seem to have serious misconceptions about PS – such as – “since 2000, Park Slope has added world class stores and restaurants by the droves, has great schools and a park. It has added thousands of people who are raising their children there and has created a very tightly knit urban fabric.” – Sorry but PS has been very much the same for the past 20 years. I raised my family there and it has always been family oriented and affluent. The stores may be a bit glitzier and the residents a bit more well heeled but there is no fundamental change and the prices have always reflected that.
Probably in your bedroom, 12:23.