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
I saw 1094 Park Place today and it is truly gorgeous.
It’s amazing how off topic Open House Picks gets. Well, at least no one is talking about stroller moms.
The point of my living in an urban area is so that I can walk or hop a train to get where I have to go. I love Brownstone Brooklyn and I even like Ditmas Park area because it’s still has a city vibe even though the homes are Victorian. If and when I am ready to go suburban, if ever, I would not want to live in some half-ass suburban area like Queens or Staten Island or Bay Ridge. I’d go upstate where I can get a home on acre or two and drive to a decent mall.
Queens-bashing is dumb. Nothing wrong with Queens; there are cool areas there and good housing stock. Lots of prewar coops. However, we personally would be far more likely to move upstate than to move to Queens, if we decided we were leaving Brooklyn (and not for Manhattan). It’s the outer reaches, it’s the ‘burbs. So is Bay Ridge. No way around it.
sorry….encompass.
funny typo on that one.
I don’t think anyone was arguing that Brooklyn was less an outer borough than Queens, 12:22. I appreciate your advertisement for Queens, but I believe the primary argument here is that this blog is called Brownstoner. I’d venture to say that a vast majority of people who read this website usually prefer homes that are of architectural significance, older and filled with charm.
Homes in Queens, do not, for the most part excompass this. It was just a different style of home built in Queens at a different point in our history. They are less ornate.
I’m sure there are tons of nice neighrborhoods…I’ve been to quite a few that seemed pleasant enough. It’s just that some of us have a different sense of what is considered beautiful. I need to live somehwere I think is beautiful. I would think that about very few homes in Queens. That’s why I’ve decided on Brooklyn.
It’s nothing personal.
9:54
Hey, I’m all about Brownstones, I actually own one. But the “bitterness” all started when I dared to suggest to some folks here looking for good schools and low crime that they might try northern, Queens. Not northern Nova Scotia, mind you, but the area of Queens served by the #7 train and the LIRR which are both reasonable commutes to the city. Argue all you want but as I stated THE best school district in the city (k-12) district 26 in Bayside/Douglaston area and violent crime is rare. I became “bitter” because some troglodyte was busy with the all too common Queens bashing which is at best borish and at worst ignorant of the cultural offerings of the most diverse parcel of land on the planet. So you may think I’m bitter, but it’s only because there are abundant poseurs on this website that feel as if parts of Brooklyn are the end-all of civilized discourse. Sorry if I back up my points with facts but I thought they might help in this feast of pure reason.
I have to laugh at some of the reference to Queens as the “outer boroughs”. What short memories we have (or perhaps, how young people on this blog must be). I moved to Park Slope in 1985 because I could rent an apartment (shared) and my share of the rent was $300. Brooklyn was very much an “outer borough” at that time, and for years afterward, and people very disdainfully called anyone not living in Manhattan part of the “bridge and tunnel crowd”.
I was fortunate enough to buy a brownstone in another nice Brooklyn neighborhood more than 15 years later (although prices were still affordable). But I imagine in another 15 years Queens will be viewed in a very similar way and no one will have memories of a time when Queens wasn’t one of the most desirable places in NYC to live (along with Manhattan and Brooklyn, hopefully).
And people don’t want to live in Brooklyn just because of the brownstone housing stock — otherwise, there wouldn’t be all those new construction buildings where not very nice apartments in good neighborhoods sell for enormous amounts of money. If I were starting out now, I’d look for a place in Queens, Inwood, or other neighborhoods that may not yet be viewed as cool, but are very nice places to live nevertheless.
Hey Bay Ridge commuter – if you want to get to Wall St. quickly you should check out Bed-Stuy. The A train is a super quick ride to Broadway-Nassau. Plenty of nice, quiet brownstone blocks near the Utica or Nostrand stops (Nostrand is closer to Manhattan, but Utica is closer to the slightly more upscale Stuy Heights amenities). Lewis Ave. and Tompkins Ave. are the burgeoning boutique retail strips. You should be able to find a 2 bedroom floor through in your price range, and provided you look at places in the southern part of the neighborhood (which you would want to do anyway in order to be close to the A train) you will find many gorgeous, quiet, safe brownstone blocks.