Open House Picks: Houses
Carroll Gardens 98 3rd Place Brown Harris Stevens Sunday 2:30-4:30 $2,450,000 GMAP P*Shark Park Slope 360A 5th Street Warren Lewis Sunday 2:30-4:30 $1,875,000 GMAP P*Shark Bedford Stuyvesant 111 Clifton Place Corcoran Sunday 12-1 $1,395,000 GMAP P*Shark Kensington 301 Caton Avenue Brooklyn Properties Sunday 1-3 $889,000 GMAP P*Shark Tune in tomorrow morning for Open House Picks:…
Carroll Gardens
98 3rd Place
Brown Harris Stevens
Sunday 2:30-4:30
$2,450,000
GMAP P*Shark
Park Slope
360A 5th Street
Warren Lewis
Sunday 2:30-4:30
$1,875,000
GMAP P*Shark
Bedford Stuyvesant
111 Clifton Place
Corcoran
Sunday 12-1
$1,395,000
GMAP P*Shark
Kensington
301 Caton Avenue
Brooklyn Properties
Sunday 1-3
$889,000
GMAP P*Shark
Tune in tomorrow morning for Open House Picks: Apartments
Actually you forgot ps 107
good thing, ps 282 and ps 39 are excellent schools as well.
name another neighborhood in brooklyn with THREE above average elementary schools…two of which are improving leaps and bounds every year.
and you wonder why people are flocking to park slope.
duh.
Re Park slope: Anyone who thinks that the new condos on 4th Ave don’t have the potential to affect 321 is kidding themselves. The only saving grace is that the developers made many of the units 1 bedrooms, which are less likely to have school age kids in them. As deelopmet continues, I suspect that the school board will have to redraw boundaries in the area. 321 is bursting at the seams — look at all of the temporary classrooms taking up outdoor play space. Max class sizes are mandated — what happens if more kids pour into the zone?
why are there never any brooklyn heights listings?
Sounds to me that Park Slope continues to buck the trend of the National housing bust.
Probably just in time for it to rebound.
New Homes sales rose 4.8 % in September.
A good neighborhood is a good neighborhood.
To anyone buying anything on sale….YOU ARE GREEDY. PAY FULL PRICE NO MATTER WHAT!
I meant that that block of 5th St. is one of the nicer blocks below 6th ave., not 5th.
And: “Honey, let’s “stretch” to buy a big ‘ol townhouse and then send the kids to public school to save a few bucks.” ??
Cost is not the only consideration when debating public vs. private. I don’t feel I’m cheating my kids by sending them to public school – if you think that’s so, then yes, your priorities are quite different than mine.
Hard to see the details of all the homes because their decor is blinding me. Good grief. That Caton House….talk about overkill with the photos on the wall leading up the stairs. I am so fixed on the ugly styles I can’t see past them.Yikes.
@petunia:
1. So as not to undermine your friend’s sale, a correction: their house is above 5th Avenue, not below.
2. Interesting to hear that Warren Lewis set the price. The scuttlebutt on Brownstoner in the past has been that they price low, to spur bidding wars.
3. Yeah, I hate when people here throw around the word “greedy,” as if a seller has some moral obligation not to get every dime they can, like anyone selling anything else. Overoptimistic, maybe, but let’s not get moralistic about it.
4. Fact remains, as I posted before, that nicely renovated houses on 6th Street between 5th and 6th (pretty block, same school) have sold arounf $1.5 or $1.6M in the last year or so. Good luck to your friends because if they get their price then I have more equity than I thought, but I see this going more in that range.
A few points:
1) this house IS 15 ft, not 16 ft, and the owner admits it.
2) broker is being way too aggressive
3) there are definitely other listings under 2 mil in PS
4) this is a ridiculous price for such a tiny house
Also, for the person who said people are crazy to buy a house at the expense of sending their kid to private schoool – I have researched this issue extensively, and feel confident that the NYC public school system offers a lot of great choices. Going to public school is not necessarily feeding your kids the scraps – there are many *advantages* to public school that are not necessarily present in private school (and vice versa). I would not consider private always better than public, just different – so much depends on the family and the kid. Also, buying a house is not a selfish decision parents make at the expense of their kids – the kids benefit too by having more space, possibly happier parents, and an investment their parents will likely leave to them in some form (building wealth in the family usually benefits kids too). Of course, it’s a very individual choice, and I truly think many families who have some options but are not mega-wealthy find themselves wrestling with the choices, but I think it’s just plain silly to condemn NYC home-buyers as being indifferent to their kids’ education. Indeed, school zones pay a huge role in many families’ decisions of where to buy! That said, some people will choose to live in a small place or a rental and sacrifice all for private school (or might not the money for that either) and that’s fine too – why is this forum always so judgmental?