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
The problem with Park Slope is that it doesn’t have enough crack whores and is overrun by stroller moms and obnoxious babies.
Why do people keep saying there is no middle class in Crown Heights or in other lower priced historic brownstone Brooklyn neighborhoods? There certainly is a middle class, a longtime middle class.
The reason Park Slope has better amentities now is because of all the apartments rented by hipster young singles. People who until recently only wanted to live in Manhattan. Those are the ones who eat out every night and go drinking every night and go see bands at Union Hall, etc. Until those kids came in replacing the low income renters little by little, Park Slope’s amenities were okay, but were not all that hip and mostly just basic. There weren’t great bars and top restaurants and cute trendy boutiques. There’s nothing stopping young hip renters from venturing into the fringe neighborhoods, certainly not with the rents getting so high in Park Slope. We’re seeing more and more of them where we are.
Once nice things about Crown Heights is its prime selection of crack whores. Not the dirty, occasionally messed up kind who looks like she’s just crawled out of a car accident; but the tired-looking kind who probably won’t mind getting slapped around a little.
There are some nice things about Crown Heights.
not really the point, 1:56.
but thanks for sharing.
this thread has been interesting so far. there are the really great differing, intelligent posts and then there have been the lowest common denominator posts.
hmmm…reminds me a little bit of a couple neighborhoods we’ve been discussing.
very little middle ground.
makes things livable but uncomfortable a little bit, no?
Ugh…I hate the PS Food Coop. I love good food as much as the next guy, but my god the people at the coop are soooo bloody neurotic. Honestly, I’d start eating a McDonalds and shave ten years off my life rather than have to deal with those creeps.
Mr. B, there’s also someone on here expressing opinions that I really, fervently disagree with. Is there anything you can do to silence them?
Park Slope won’t be like a CT suburb. But it has nothing to do with the low or upper class.
It has everything to do with the large middle class.
It remains intact because so many people love the neighborhood feel, the park, the co-op, the architecture, the shops, the restaurants and many other things.
Those are there because of the middle class that made Park Slope what it is and are able to stay because we were lucky to have so many people be able to pick up bargains before 2000.
These other neighborhoods don’t have that same luck at the moment.
Actually, 12:53pm, there were 2 large buildings with low income apartments in them on our prime North Slope block. Mostly Puerto Rican residents. I’m not insulting them, or Park Slope. Love Park Slope. Just saying it is not quite yet like a CT suburb.
Good info Bob Marvin and guest at 12:58. Nice to hear actual knowledge of NYC economic history.
Do you all realize the irony of most of the criticisms of Park Slope?
Park Slope is such a nice place, mainly because of all the middle class, creative professionals and the like that moved in in 15, 20, even 10 years ago. That is the core of Park Slope and the food co-op and the thrust to improve the schools and the services in the neighborhood.
MOST of the criticisms of Park Slope come about to rag on the rich liberal class that have moved in over the last 6 or 7 years. It’s not of the people who have been here for ages, and although happen to be wealthy on paper now because of their homes, are still middle class, normal people.
You have now priced out those people from Crown Heights and Bed Stuy. You have a very small middle class, with large low and a growing upper class. It makes for unstable neighborhoods.
The key to any good neighborhood is the diversity of the class system with a solid middle to offset the low and high.
Crown Heights…due to this recent housing bubble, along with other neighborhoods in New York and in the rest of the country have been side-swiped, through not fault of their own to now have these very non-diverse and increasingly segregated neighborhoods.
I’m not sure what the answer is though. Housing prices dipping might be just what these neighborhoods need to see that they don’t fail down the road.
The world is moving towards a more urban society. It would be good to work on the problem because it seems that more and more people will need to live closer and closer together if we have any chance of keeping this world from overheating. It’s kinda all related. This new shift away from the suburbs is something I think that will be talked about a lot in our future…as much as the white flight to the burbs was so integral to the decline of the American City 50 years ago.