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
Get a load of this everyone, it’s talking to itself again (3:26 and 3:30).
Wonder why 99 St. Marks is so cheap? I’m gonna hit the open house to see what’s wrong with it…
What’s the potential rental income on it? Say the “2br” floor-thrus are really 1.5br… maybe 2k/mo. each? $3500/mo. for the duplex if you wanted to live in a smaller apt and make more rent…?
Whoops, meant the latter, not former in my post above.
Free speech, 3:26. Unfortunately, it even applies to you. Have a nice day.
Please, there is a world of difference between Brownsville and Bed Stuy and Crown Heights, especially architecturally. The former were built as upper middle class to rich enclaves, depending on where you are, while Brownsville was always working class and underbuilt. Then in the 60’s they built 50% of the projects in Brooklyn there. So the housing stock is like comparing apples and oranges.
That said, I agree a million bucks is a lot of money. I personally think that only a favored few homes in either neighborhood deserve to be that much, or above, but they do exist, and are special pieces of property. If other houses set to sell that high don’t, then the owner and broker will have to come down to reality and set their sights lower. The market will bear only what people are willing to pay.
However, I must emphatically say that I think a buy in either neighborhood is an excellent investment. People continuously want to live in a brownstone/rowhouse. They are going to go where the houses are, and deal with whatever is or isn’t in the neighborhood in whatever way works for them. In the long run, or even the near future, there will be no regrets. I believe in my neighborhood because I know it’s worthy. I’m not sugarcoating its ills, but the good far outweighs any bad.
He said ‘you people’, not ‘you comments’, moron.
Likewise, I’m sure, 3:14.
You hate anonymous comments on a real estate blog?
Sounds like you hate yourself, then.
Yikes.
2:34 – I am not sure why I am letting your ridiculous rant bait me into responding but… As someone who has actually been to philly, I have to call your bluff. Are you kidding? Everywhere in NYC is nicer than anywhere in Philly? You are NUTS. I live in brooklyn now but spent years living happily in Philadelphia.
I am not sure why stoner-commenters feel the need to bash on Philly but it occurs regularly enough to irritate since the bashing is uniformly uninformed and inane. Philly is a different, smaller, more affordable city with lots to offer. Just like NYC it has sketchy neighborhoods and gentrified stroller-derby neighborhoods. Neighborhoods that were once written off are now booming (would that I have bought that home in Graduate Hospital before its price skyrocketed).
So enough with the Philly bashing already. It is an underrated gem of a city. Anyone who tells you ‘all nyc neighborhoods are better’ is smoking something.
You people need to consider what A MILLION DOLLARS IS.
Say it out loud. A MILLION DOLLARS.
Take a walk around Crown Heights or Bed Stuy with an objective view and tell me if you think that buying A home in that neighborhood is worth a MILLION DOLLARS.
While a block or two here and there are lovely and yes…Stuy Heights is lovely, the neighborhood is worth nowhere near that amount yet. Maybe in 5 or 10 years, but certainly not now.
Next thing you’ll tell me is that Brownsville homes are also worth 1 million dollars because it’s in NEW YORK CITY!!!
Ahh, 3PM, your intelligence, logic, and mastery of the English language is just more than the rest of us can take. I won’t even bother to comment further.