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
There are all types of people everywhere. I was at Ft. Greene park yesterday and was surprised by the amount of ultra self-consciously dressed and styled young parents I saw. The type that try waaay too hard to be crazy edgy, hip, and non-conformist. I was surprised because I’d always thought Ft. Greene was supposed to be more understated and low-key. So there are “types” in every neighborhood. Human nature is the same everywhere. I don’t think one neighborhood is better or worse based on a broad generalization about its inhabitants. I know many nice and normal people who live on the UES and also a few raging a**holes.
This comes up all the time. I don’t understand it. Park Slope is in high-demand and is an expensive neighborhood simply because:
1. It is “New York’s largest, most intact mid-to-nineteenth-century brownstone neighborhood.” (Charles Lockwood, p. 286)
2. It is near one of the nicest parks in NYC.
3. It has great stores and amenities.
4. It offers a relatively easy commute to NYC.
Period. You can argue ad nauseum about all the stereotypes you can find in Park Slope–but there are douchebags and nice people in EVERY neighborhood in the world!
To #7:43….your reasoning for why you seem to think there is not high demand for Park Slope is simply moronic. Your rational was because it’s a large neighborhood, no??
Well given that prices are still one of the highest of all Brooklyn neighborhoods and the fact that IT IS a rather large neighborhood, only proves the point of how high demand is for the neighborhood.
Do you understand that?
Any fyi…the neighborhood itself really isn’t that large, but over the last 10 years, real estate agents and others have basically started tacking on any area they can around Park Slope, now calling it such. 15th Street is the end of Park Slope, but you now find many people calling well into the teens and 20’s Park Slope. Same thing with the Gowanus area. I even see listings north of Flatbush that brokers like to now call Park Slope to get more people interested.
Do you think these things symbolize low demand?
I talk to my broker friends regularly…two of which deal almost exclusively in Manhattan, and they all say Park Slope is one of the most sought after neighborhoods in the city.
I don’t care personally, but I’m just giving you some facts.
Yeah, Hunters Point is like 2 blocks long, and now you’re surrounded by all the new hi-rises anyway
Go Teaneck!
“Are there historic brownstones in Queens…?”
Yes, Hunters Point Historic District in LIC, but it’s pretty small.
Queens HOTD:
http://queenscrap.blogspot.com/2007/11/picture-postcards-from-jamaica.html
Why don’t you start a blog in which you praise the virtues of Queens? Have a HOTD (or similar) feature, history section, commute information, etc. Dude, you can be the person who singlehandedly sparks an (outer) Queens Renaissance!
Are there historic brownstones in Queens, poster 8:27? Because this board is mainly about historic brownstones. And yes, buying a historic brownstone in an urban area is more expensive than buying a ranch house with aluminum siding, or a non-descript 1960s brick house, no matter how nice the neighborhood. You sound like a bitter person, insulting anyone who wouldn’t consider Queens. And funny how you don’t mention the Queens neighborhoods that are closest to Manhattan–Jackson Heights, Astoria, LIC. What’s the matter? Too many “poseurs” there for you? Just because someone doesn’t *want* to live in an “outer borough” doesn’t mean they are being disdainful. I like to walk a lot, and I don’t want to be dependent on a car to get to the LIRR train station. Hence, I would never in a million years live that far out in any neighborhood. That’s why I moved to a densely populated urban area. Also, I’ve always loved and admired brownstone architecture, so if and when I can afford a nice brownstone, I will look for one in Brooklyn where there are many great neighborhoods and houses to choose from, and where I can walk to a subway train and be at my job. Most of the time people are driven by purely practical concerns, and not by the “cultural superiority” you mention.