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
5:51…by the way you write, it’s obvious you’ve lived in Brooklyn since 1967. Did you make it past the 5th grade??
My god. Talk about a run on sentence.
Yeah, somehow bashing Park Slope while promoting Bed Stuy seems so much more rational, 5:05.
Pot.
Kettle.
Black.
much?
Right on 5:18.
That’s where you are WAY wrong, 12:26.
Park Slope is significant. And no, not because it’s the only neighbrohood in New York City to win these stupid awards for top 10 neighborhood, or top 10 eco friendly neighborhood in the country.
The reason it is important is because it BEGAN the entire wave of gentrification of Brooklyn. Back in the 60’s when many people would not even have set foot in Brooklyn, much less lived here and when neighborhood after neighborhood was red-lined, a few brave souls moved to Park Slope and little by little brought back the homes and eventually the community.
It has now been mimicked by Ft. Greene, Prosepct Heights, Clinton Hill, Cobble Hill, Bed Stuy, etc etc.
If it weren’t for those “hippies” who were brave enough to move to Brooklyn when no one else even wanted to cross the bridge, Brooklyn would perhaps not be a destination that it has become today.
There is some significance to the neighborhood.
It has reaped the reward of decades of hard work and determination by many of its residents.
You might find that insignificant, but I don’t.
I don’t want to move to Brownsville or East New York now so I know how rough it must have been for these people to move into a community in need and turn it around and allow it to prosper.
Posted by: guest at October 28, 2007 1:10 PM
I have lived in Brooklyn since 1967 when I was a 7 year old and you really can’t be serious and if you are you are very ignorant or unaware of Brooklyn and its population. I think you believe Brooklyn is okay because people came across the bridge some years ago and saved it from the people who now have been moved to East New York? You are so smart!
I love the people sanctimoniously telling people to leave their “bubble” and move to Bed Stuy — and in the next breath saying to ship their kids to private school. No bubble there!
Bitch all you want about the “elitists” of Park Slope, at least they rolled up their sleeves and built a community — including the schools. Instead of holing up in their detailed brownstones like fortresses and congratulating themselves on their “enbrace” of their neighbors.
Park Slope was not the first gentrified neighborhood in Brooklyn. It was Brooklyn Heights, the first historic neighborhood in New York City.
Of course, there have always been good neighborhoods in Brooklyn, they just didn’t carry the cache of more expensive and well-known areas. Park Slope did not start a trend, despite what you think. Individuals in various areas moved into several neighborhoods and slowly made changes. To imply that the whole borough would be crap or waited with bated breath to follow in the footsteps of Park Slope’s gentrification is incredibly obnoxious.
As for the architechture of Park Slope. It is impressive, despite the decades of alteration, e.g. removal of stoops and fireplace mantels, that detract from its original intent. Unfortunately, pretty facades don’t make a great nieghborhood.
There are plenty of places to walk to in Bed-Stuy. You obviously don’t live there. That is why you say that. It just makes you uncomfortable to a) live among people who don’t look and live just like you do and b) admit to your friends and family that you don’t live in some other, more expensive area.
The people of Park Slope need to get off their high horses. Just because some magazine tells you that you live in a “Top 10 neighborhood,” doesn’t mean it is better. It means you buy into the unjustifiable hype that the magazine is promoting. Oddly enough, the most livable block in Brooklyn is in Fort Green (if you beleive that hype.)
By trying to defend a neighborhood, you simply prove the point the detractors are trying to make. The attitude of its residents is not necessary or justified (like the prices of its real estate). You are no better or worse than everyone else, even though you paid more to live in the same city. You have no special access to the services of your area or the city as a whole. The joy of living in a less expensive area is that my mortgage is lower, I benefit from the services of any neighborhood of my choosing and I don’t have to put up with obnoxious neighbors. That is well worth a slightly longer walk to the local supermarket or coffee shop.
Also, PS 39 (5th street house zoned for this school) is no PS 321.
Does the 5th street house only have 2 full baths, one of which is in the basement??
Weird.
overpriced is not the correct word here.
overpriced means people aren’t buying them. which they are.
otherwise we’d have a glut of properties on the market.
the correct word is expensive. park slope is expensive.
it will only become overpriced if people stop buying the expensive properties, thus sellers will have to reduce prices so that people will buy them.
i believe there are a few properties in park slope that are overpriced…they are the ones that have been sitting on the market for 6 months untouched. but the neighborhood certainly is not. people have been buying and inventory is still incredibly low.