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
People who are concerned about middle and high school should be looking at District 22 and 23, not District 15, which craps out after elementary school, with the possible exception of 51, and even they only got a handful of kids admitted to Stuyvesant, etc.
Let’s explore this commute thing further. Half of the folks here spend their time whining about crime ridden areas they can’t live in, so they ignore beautiful homes at a reasonable price in Bed-Stuy.Others spend their time lamenting their commute. So most of the folks end up lauding Park Slope because it has relatively low crime and a short commute to Manhattan. If one dares to bring up Queens as an alternative, out come the dunderheads with their sarcastic : Queens as a cultural dustbin, routine. Totally ignoring the fact that a commute from Queens can take half an hour easily on the #7 train or the E train or the LIRR to Grand Central(shell out the 10 bucks, and stop whining). So it all comes back to a bunch of cultural poseurs wanting nothing but to live in Park Slope acting like they are living out some tv commercial fantasy of bohemian virtue, while looking down at neighborhoods from which true artistic genius grows. Park Slope is very nice but in the last 50 years it has not produced the artistic/cultural achievements of “lesser” parts of the city like say Forest Hills, Queens which gave us the Ramones (inventors of Punk)and Simon&Garfunkel(pioneers of folk), or say Flushing Queens (home to Jerry Seinfeld’s alma mater Queens College) or say Hollis/Jamaica the home of Run DMC and Fitty Cent or Corona the home of Louis Armstrong (jazz genius extroidainaire)or even Howard Beach which, for what it’s worth is where Hollywood goes to find true mobster style and lingo. Park Slope is a beautiful neighborhood which I know quite well but don’t be one of those obsequious sycophants who thinks you can buy yourself a lifestyle by sitting in a coffee shop in Williamsburg while putting down the “outer boroughs” which actually invent the next wave.
There isn’t such high demand for Park Slope. Park Slope is 6 times the size of other neighborhoods and has more housing stock. Relative the size of Park Slope the demand is actually not that impressive. Houses are always available in Park Slope. They come on the market much less often in Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens or Boerum Hill and it is therefor much harder to find houses in these areas. The only thing Park Slope has going for it is that it has more people to come on these boards to insist how wonderful Park Slope is.
FYI even if your are in the zone you are not guaranteed a spot in Pre-k as it’s not a compulsory year. We’re zoned for PS29 and for 2007-2008 they had too many applicants for Pre-K and having only 54 places and more than 80 zoned applicants had to hold a lottery for places. We ended up being #10 on the waitlist but two weeks after school started fortunately our number came up.
11:01 – I’m 5:29. “Applying” was a bad choice of word. Or course, we are guaranteed a spot in 39 – what I meant is that we are applying to other District 15 schools i.e. lottery schools plus looking into variances at other schools. Actually, I’ve heard 39 is getting better and better – but I don’t want to hog this board with too much talk of schools. Though of course, it’s relevant in real estate. That said, I’m really amazed by the prices being asked in District 13 (i.e Park Slope north of Union St, Ft Greene, etc.) when the schools there are evidently no way near as good as District 15. I know things change and some schools in District 13 are improving, but I’ve heard from most people that there is still a long way to go in 13 compared to 15. I really do think prices are going to drop. Has anyone seen this house on President St in PS (the District 13 side, not 15). It went on market at 1.9, dropped to 1.65 and just last week was slashed to 1.4. Clearly, something is up with the market for this kind of price decline in “prime” area.
5:29, why would you be applying for PS39 if you’re zoned for it? It’s in District 15 and if you’re zoned for it, you can go. What other schools are you looking at? We’re zoned for PS39 as well, applying for prek next year. is prek what you meant?
10:28pm Well not EVERYONE wants Park Slope – we spent four years there and then moved to Cobble Hill which is a much shorter commute and has everything and more than PS.
Well, why is there such high demand for Park Slope?
The problem with Bayside is not that it’s in Queens per se, it’s that it is FAR OUT IN QUEENS. As noted above, it is closer to Nassau County than to Manhattan. You need a car to live there. There are no subways. The buses are few and far between. It is no Flushing or Astoria, which I’d take over Bayside anyday.