Open House Picks: Houses

3:49 if you have incredibly busy work lives and small children, managing any kind of renovation work may simply be impossible. also, it’s very expensive to live somewhere, pay a mortgage and pay workers in cash.

“i can’t understand all the people who bitch about having to do renovation work on brownstones.”

3:49, I would love to find a brownstone that I can restore and bring back. BUT I am unwilling to pay exorbitant prices to do so. The point of buying a fixer-upper is that you get a relative bargain and put in the work in exchange for the lower price. This PS house will sit for a while at that price.

AMENITIES AND CHARM SPAT LEADS TO BLOODSHED IN BROOKLYN

Nov. 16, 2007

An alleged argument between two Brooklynites over whose neighborhood was better for amenities and charm ended in bloodshed Wednesday night. The conflict reportedly began online at a popular real estate website called ‘Brownstoner’ where a forum topic over the relative merits and pecking order of Brooklyn’s posh brownstone neighborhoods raised tempers among discussion participants. Two participants, whose identities police are currently withholding but whom post under the handles ‘parksloper’ and ‘clintonhillguy’, proposed to meet offline to settle their disagreements via a knife fight at midnight.

In order to ensure fairness in the fight, the two combatants agreed to choose a neutral sight for the skirmish, choosing Fort Greene Park. Nearby residents reported hearing shouting at around 12:00am Thursday morning. “One of them was screaming about how the restaurants on 5th Avenue were so much better than anything in Clinton Hill,” said one witness, who wished to remain anonymous. “The other one shouted that 5th Avenue was bullshit and the architectural details in Clinton Hill’s stock of brownstones where ten times better than what you can get in Park Slope.”

The verbal altercation quickly escalated to knife-wielding. The ‘parksloper’ assailant, who is reportedly a semi-employed writer, sustained multiple knife wounds and is currently under intensive care at New York Methodist Hospital. The ‘clintonhillguy’ assailant, who reportedly works for some sort of media website, was taken into custody by police shortly after the altercation at his brownstone at 22 Clinton Place.

Police are concerned that this incident may lead to further altercations between residents of the two neighborhoods. During a routine patrol last night police came across ten individuals in front of a residence on Union Street near 6th Avenue stockpiling bicycle chains, brass knuckles and billy clubs. Police also reported that residents of Prospect Heights were also gathering and making their way towards Clinton Hill. When asked what they were doing one marcher reportedly said that they “didn’t want to be left out of the action” and were going to “get those Clinton Hill fuckers”.

sorry…i take that back.

make that 3.6 million for a crappy 3 bedroom condo at ariel on the upper west side.

jeez louise.

http://www.corcoran.com/property/listing.aspx?Region=NYC&ListingID=939286