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
Hi, I’m 11pm Oct 27 and I certainly did not mean to imply that being monied/wealthy = snooty. I’m sure there are people in PS of modest means who are snooty about other things (i.e. perhaps self-righteous) and people with money who are extremely nice. What I really meant to say is that PS is diverse, and that it’s silly to label an entire neighborhood as being monolithic. It’s true that people who have been buying of late are much more likely to be significantly wealthier than people who bought earlier, and I do think that overall, that can change the tenor of a neighborhood (certainly, I suspect it has a lot to do with all the PS bashing that has arisen) but the people who have been here a long time are pretty entrenched too. I live/own in PS and my own experience is that people overall are very nice and community-minded, regardless of their socioeconomic bracket. Still, I think houses are indeed overpriced at this moment.
Park Slope is significant because it is the largest enclave of intact late 19th century architecture in the United States.
Kinda significant, considering this blog is named after said architecture, don’t ya think?
My parents would never have allowed me to talk to them like that.
It’s disgusting that you’ve raised your kids to be such spoiled, rotten, back-talking, ungrateful rodents.
I’ve seen so many kids behave like this, and it’s the fault of the mother and father, many of whom are not cut out for parenthood because they are too consumed with themselves.
It’s become such that everyone feels they SHOULD have kids, but very few people actually make a real decision about whether or not they really WANT to have kids.
Lots of drones in this here United States.
“No, guest at 4:19, they sound like KIDS.
But you sound like an asshole.”
maybe. but i would never had told my parents to go get to work to buy me more toys.
that’s ridiculous that that is accepted as standard behavior from “kids”.
it’s obnoxious.
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.
Look, even if Bed Stuy were populated with pasty white Irish working class, the lack of amenities and shopping would deter me from moving to that neighborhood, just as it does now. I love to walk and there’s no place to walk to in Bed Stuy. Sorry pal. I’ll take a Park Slope brownstone with a tenant or two over Bed Stuy anyday.
Park Slope is overpriced. The people on this site who are defending it are simply trying to justify the insance prices they paid or hope to get when they sell.
Your focus on this one neighborhood is way out of proportion to its significance to the borough.
You really want a nice house with lots of details, no need for tennants and allows you to still send your kids to private school? Buy in Bed-Stuy.
And for all of you idiots who are going to make racist comments about Bed-Stuy, leave the lily-white bubble you live in for a few and go see the the neighborhood. It is much more livable and the people are infinitely more friendly.
You won’t be the first, or the last, 11:06–but your cement-headed, broad-brush lambasting of an entire neighborhood’s ‘elitist attitude’ where they ‘believe themselves superior parents’ and no one ‘jokes about it’ is almost too inane to respond to. Almost.
Now I’M going to generalize and guess that you’re either some early 20’s schmuck who has “figured it all out” or just a straight-up dimwit (age group unimportant). Either way, you relieve people of having to point out your myopic stupidity by sharing your scientific studies with everyone here.
Do me (and everyone who agrees with me) a favor: if you have some personal observations you wish to share on how awful you believe an entire neighborhood of individuals to be, please don’t confuse those opinions with anything resembling a fact.
And better yet, go back to your elitist, smart, cool, prideful burg and bask in your collected reflected superiority to those in Park Slope who foolishly (every last resident, because it’s all about groupthink in PS) believed they were better than you and your cool cat crew.
You people are nuts if you think you get a better value in Ditmas. I saw three houses in Ditmas over the summer, before the crunch, and they were priced between 1.7-2.5. Two of the three needed total renos, and the upkeep is incredibly expensive. While I understand the neighborhood is drawing more amenities, etc., I walked around different areas at different times of the day, and it seemed pretty spread out and isolated to me. Especially for that kind of money.