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
Oh Lord (pun intended). Brooklyn was developed by land speculators who first built churches for free and then lured congregations over to buy in the areas surrounding the church. Now you’re upset because the congregations are turning the tables?
Where I’m from congregations (mostly fundamentalists) waste billions on sanctuaries while people in their communities go hungry and without proper education. If this congregation thinks they can better serve the Gospel by gettinng top dollar for their property, then you have little room to judge them.
As for what bubble, why should they break up the parcel to suit you? Would you do the same for a buyer who made a similar offer? Come on.
I LOVED that house on BR pkwy. I can’t believe it’s gone! I moved from BR to LIC about 3 years ago. I lived 2 blocks away from this church. It is so beautiful and I can’t believe it’s being demolished. Why can’t they demolish the school next door? I would support a 12 story building there if it meant saving the church.
And re: the fedders onslaught, I’m so glad we rezoned so we slowed the process, but homes are still being demolished. A nice one on 68th on my old block is now an ugly new building. Have you been on 91st between 3rd and 4th? OUCH!
I understand some houses are going to go. But they are replaced with absolute shit, and THATS what we should have fought; design quality, in addition to a downzoning. The only decent new building is the glass beauty on Shore Road….if only they all had a budget like that, for REAL bricks and CENTRAL AIR.
Bay Ridge was once beautiful. Now it’s just beautiful in pockets. The 76th street step street is my favorite.
This is just a natural continutaion of the trend that has swept bay ridge in the last 3 years. The neigborhood has become completeley awash, AWASH, in Fedders.
Its truly happened with breathtaking speed. In fact, if you go onto Microsoft virtual earth, and scan over bay ridge, you’ll still see many attractive Victorian mansions and other properties that simply aren’t there anymore. There was a particulary gorgeos Victorian on the corner of 75 st & 10 ave, sitting on a green 100×100 lot. Gone, gone, gone. Replaced by a hardcore Fedders from our friends at Bricolage. I do, however, take some small consolation that several of thier units have been languishing unsold for over a year.
Guess the developers are running out of Victorians to knock down, and are going after churches now. I also like the way they are tossing out the school, despite pretty serious overcrowding conditions in the local public schools from the recent surge in immigration.
I feel your pain. In fact, I think you are in good company with many Catholic parishioners who are heartbroken about recent closures of many of their architecturally beautiful churches and the loss of community that involves. I don’t think that it is necessarily a matter of denying the aesthetic connection to spirituality that many of these churches are closing (or selling the structures for condos), but that these beautiful old churches are very expensive to maintain and sometimes cannot be supported by the communities they serve. I am not sure what this pastor meant exactly, but in an awkward way perhaps he was saying that the cost of maintaining the structure might drain limited resources from things that were more directly beneficial to the congregation. I don’t know. I was part of a parish once in Brooklyn which worked tirelessly to save its stunning 150 year old church and its small but vibrant congregation in the face of shifting demographics and a shrinking congregation. It could have been too much for these people in Bay Ridge, I don’t know. It’s sad though. For me, it would be a strange living there – I could never dance at the Limelight either.
Ha, what a Freudian Slip – I, of course, meant Crown Heights, not Brown Heights.
Must be all of that offensive trash being tossed my way.
i used to live 3 houses down from this church on ovington ave in a beautiful limestone. the church is huge, w/ a school attached, a huge parking lot and an 1899 limestone used by the priest or someone like that. in any case, i called the brokers, mackey knasal and asked if the church would be willing to sell the limestone separately since it really would be bad if they developed that lot as it abuts to a row of other limestones…i was willing to pay market price…they weren’t willing to sell as it would only mean they were giving up precious development rights (little as they were compared to the rest of the site).
in any case, forget the church…a beautiful old limestone will be torn down instead of keeping it.
I think this is my favorite brownstoner thread EVER. This is sooooo awesome!
they can call shopcrownheights.com and let people in your area know what is available.
I meant to say they can call it shopcrownheights.com not that it already exists.
And I suppose those cops who were killed recently were also ignorant, bigoted, gasbags? You should be ashamed of yourself. Those men gave their lives in the line of duty. You of all people should not disrespect them now. Wow…