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
Yeah you’re right you can buy a brownstone in Manhattan for the same price in Brooklyn. Not. What planet are you from.
Carroll Gardens is WAY expensive now, and the F train blows. Even when I lived there over 10 years ago I had to let 3 trains pass before I could sandwich myself in durning morning rush. I can’t imagine what it’s like now, and getting to work every morning late and crabby is a horrible way to live. For the same price you can live in Manhattan anyway, with better subway options.
My husband and I like Bushwick a lot but wonder about the L on the weekends, any thoughts? Also who is a good realtor for the nabe? Seems listings on nytimes are all new and we’re interested in something old or old-ish
It makes a lot of sense look at the people and the kids, carroll Gardens kids look like they took a bath, the parents look like they cleaned underneath there finger nails. That’s what it means very simple stuff here , you just need to open your eyes.
I think the park is great but so is being closer in carroll gardens to Manhattan and being able to walk to the promenade and i just continue to say the yuppies in carroll gardens have the same intellect as park slope just a cleaned up version. The only difference is the old ladies that still own some homes in carroll gardens. Both areas are great, i just like carroll gardens a little better but prospect park is great.
cg is quite lovely, but for nearly the same money, i’d still take park slope anyday over it.
being so close to prospect park and to be able to wake up on a spring or summer saturday and stumble up there is an amazing treat.
and if you’re in the north slope, the access to the q train and 2/3 trains far surpasses being close to the f train, in my opinion.
i think people far undervalue being close to the park. if you lived there, you’d know…
they make it sounds like CG is some undiscovered enclave! it is pretty impossible to get a decent/cheap apt there. sunset park for $1000–yes. CG is already over and done with. that’s a million dollar brownstone area…even the old italian ladies (my landlord) are hip to it and the rents they charge has skyrocketed.
It’s not the mafioso in CG, it’s the older neighborhood folk, many of whom are living in the same house they lived all their lives, who look out for one another. The nice thing about Carroll Gardens is that many of the cops, transit workers, small store owners, and others still live in the neighborhood and it hasn’t been completely overrun with yuppies, hipsters, or whatever you want to call the newest arrivals. At least, not yet.
I live just down the street from the church in question here, and have heard the “stop building Fedders already” argument over and over and it’s wearing thin on me. As a renter, I am itching to be able to pay a mortgage rather than rent, and condos can be a nice entry point for first-time buyers in this city. Real estate is tight and expensive in Bay Ridge, but I love living here, and when it’s time for my husband and I to buy, we’ll probably have to leave. I say bring on the condos – though I do hope they are built with more concern for the neighborhood aesthetics than others have been.
As for budgets and morals – yes, I agree budgets show where your prioritites are. But as a Christian, your priority should not be preserving a moneypit. It should be spreading the Gospel, and if your building drains your ability to do that, you should shed it. Open the Bible – Jesus didn’t send his disciples out to preach with a full complement of camping gear and the first century equivalent of an RV. They took one tunic and set out to preach and serve, dependent on the generosity of their communities.