Open House Picks: Houses
Carroll Gardens 56 2nd Place Vita Realty Sunday 2-4 $1,850,000 GMAP P*Shark Crown Heights 1094 Park Place Corcoran Sunday 1:30-3:30 $1,395,000 GMAP P*Shark Windsor Terrace 1609 11th Avenue Warren Lewis Sunday 2-4 $1,265,000 GMAP P*Shark Clinton Hill 76 Ryerson Street Fillmore Sunday 2-4 $1,250,000 GMAP P*Shark
Carroll Gardens
56 2nd Place
Vita Realty
Sunday 2-4
$1,850,000
GMAP P*Shark
Crown Heights
1094 Park Place
Corcoran
Sunday 1:30-3:30
$1,395,000
GMAP P*Shark
Windsor Terrace
1609 11th Avenue
Warren Lewis
Sunday 2-4
$1,265,000
GMAP P*Shark
Clinton Hill
76 Ryerson Street
Fillmore
Sunday 2-4
$1,250,000
GMAP P*Shark
Hmm… 8:25, that sounds just like my childhood in Little Neck, QUEENS. You’d be surprised how many people living in Little Neck/Great Neck, and yes, even Bayside, rarely step foot in the city. Maybe once a year, but I knew and still know many people who spent years without doing so.
I’ve been intrigued by Forest Hills. I don’t know if I can stomach all the competition and analysis of where I can live and what I can afford.
I think 2:36 might be onto something…
Also, I can’t even being to describe the ennui of being a teenager in Rockland County. I was on the bus, taking the two hour ride into the city every chance I got, starting at about 13, frequently cutting school to do so.
Drinking vodka out of a paper bag in the neighborhood playground was about as exciting as it got on Friday nights out there.
I’ve heard many parents further up in the Rhinebeck area state that after an idyllic childhood, opportunities for their teens are really limited and depressing. It’s not like there hothousing art students or ivy league types out their in the hinterlands. Some have moved further down to Westchester and Rockland, where there are lots of parents pushing the college track, others have come back to Brooklyn.
I, too, grew up in Rockland, and although Nyack and Piermont have some appeal, the rest is a wasteland and I would never choose to raise my children there, despite the quality of some of the schools (which, ironically don’t include those in Nyack).
If someone wants to consider Queens and have somewhat of an urban lifestyle, Forest Hills is a better bet. In addition, to great shopping, subways and LIRR, it has a good stock of 30s houses similar to Midwood/Madison, not so attractive townhouses and Forest Hills Gardens – which I think is comparable to prime brownstone blocks. The public elementary schools are better than most of Brooklyn too. Most of Queens requires the need of a car, so it has an urban feel like many other cities in the US.
Still having grown up in Rockland county, there is no comparison with Bayside or other fringe city neighborhoods. Most people in Rockland come into the city a few times a year other than for work at most. The quality of public transportation is horrible and it is a kind of alienating for teenage kids – not much to do.
11:06: This is the problem with BH. Great houses, but unless you’re near Smith Street you are sandwiched between the Atlantic Avenue/Fulton Mall and the projects.
Someone just posted an excellent open house report on 40 St. Marks–see original HOTD thread.
i’m looking in park slope…not boreum hill…
not for that kinda money.
no way.
162 Bergen is listed at $2,300,000 AND needs $500k in work? That’s a lotta scratch to live a block from the projects.