Open House Picks
Williamsburg 168 Marcy Avenue Corcoran Sunday 2-4 $2,300,000 GMAP P*Shark Cobble Hill 238 Kane Street Halstead Sunday 1-3 $1,975,000 GMAP P*Shark Prospect Heights 323 Prospect Place Halstead Sunday 12-2 $1,400,000 GMAP P*Shark Crown Heights 870 Prospect Place George Clarke Sunday 12-2 $1,199,000 GMAP P*Shark
Williamsburg
168 Marcy Avenue
Corcoran
Sunday 2-4
$2,300,000
GMAP P*Shark
Cobble Hill
238 Kane Street
Halstead
Sunday 1-3
$1,975,000
GMAP P*Shark
Prospect Heights
323 Prospect Place
Halstead
Sunday 12-2
$1,400,000
GMAP P*Shark
Crown Heights
870 Prospect Place
George Clarke
Sunday 12-2
$1,199,000
GMAP P*Shark
5:30: New poster here. Just because you feel that, if there were a righteous God, you could afford more than a 2BR apartment in a nice neighborhood for $700K, does not mean prices are “out of whack.” Not when there are sufficient others with $700K willing to pay it. Which, whether you like it or not, there are. If you don’t like that, you’re free to rent, as the majority of New Yorkers do and always have.
and I’m sure you paid a great price for your Park Slope shoebox.
Hello. I’m just joining the discussion late in the day. I’m a native NYer, Brooklynite, in fact. I bought my first house about 14 years ago. Moved out about 5 years ago because I’m no longer in love with NYC. I don’t find it that special any more. New Yorkers are what made the city special…hate to tell ya. It’s not the restaurants, bars or Fresh Direct delivery. Why do I read Brownstoner? Because I have an investment and pied a terre in Brooklyn. So, I don’t hate because I can’t afford it. I hate because I resent the fact that my city IS just like any other city now.
I guess I just don’t get it.
I’m in my early 30s and just bought in Park Slope.
And I work in the arts and make less and 100K.
I don’t need a 2 million dollar house.
Ever.
No one does.
Oh please 5:17. I’m not trying to buy a 2 million house on my own, nor am I a private-property bashing communist. But I’d sure wish I could get more for my oh, maybe 700K, than a former crack house, “dripping with details” notwithstanding, in a shitty neighborhood. And not because I grew up here and that makes me better, only because, like most people, I have the common human aversion to moving too far away from what I know. It’s that simple.
Bottom line, salaries and home prices in NYC are out of whack–no matter what normative judgments you or I may make, that is the reality. Which is why any of my attempts to buy a 2 million+ house would be aided by a financial partnership with another person who finds himself in the same situation–there are many of us in NY, you know?
So you didn’t buy?
Fine.
Not everyone needs to buy. Only 30 some percent of New Yorker’s own property. It’s a renting town.
The point is that lots of people who had no intention of buying now seem to hate New York because they saw so many people do it and bank.
Hate NY because you hate it, not because you decided not to buy something and now regret it.
The reason some of us didn’t buy back when, is because we were in High School or Collage, and now in our early 30’s making a 100K gets you very little. Having said that I did buy 2 years ago, although did have to say farewell to my beloved Cobble Hill and buy in a more up and coming neighborhood.
So if you were a teenager 15 years ago…that makes you what about 35 or so?
And you think because you grew up in New York that somehow you deserve to live in a 2 million dollar house, no matter what?
Yikes. No wonder this country is going to hell.
I don’t know what will kill this country first…the disgusting sense of entitlement or Greenhouse Gases.
4:55, greed? huh? Maybe it’s because 15 years ago some people were teenagers or young adults, and not exactly fiscally solvent yet?? And who is “OUR” anyway? Your post shows you are detached from any sort of reality other than your own.