Open House Picks
Fort Greene 16 Willoughby Avenue Corcoran Saturday 1-2 $1,969,000 GMAP P*Shark South Slope 216 14th Street Townsley & Gay Sunday 12-2 $1,595,000 GMAP P*Shark Prospect Lefferts Gardens 23 Chester Court Fillmore Sunday 2-4 $699,000 GMAP P*Shark Bedford Stuyvesant 263 Bainbridge Street Douglas Elliman Sunday 1-3 $609,000 GMAP P*Shark
Fort Greene
16 Willoughby Avenue
Corcoran
Saturday 1-2
$1,969,000
GMAP P*Shark
South Slope
216 14th Street
Townsley & Gay
Sunday 12-2
$1,595,000
GMAP P*Shark
Prospect Lefferts Gardens
23 Chester Court
Fillmore
Sunday 2-4
$699,000
GMAP P*Shark
Bedford Stuyvesant
263 Bainbridge Street
Douglas Elliman
Sunday 1-3
$609,000
GMAP P*Shark
Carrie M, on what counts am I wrong? I go by those buildings all the time and I see who lives there. I see the cars parked in front blaring music and the people going in to buy drugs. I see the people hanging on the stoops all night. I do in fact know what I’m talking about. As I said, some of the nicer apartment buildings in the area are changing–but those on the corners that I mentioned are not.
The South Slope house does seemed overpriced. Even if it didn’t, I would never buy something listed with Townsely and Gay. I know many of us on the site find most real estate agents somewhat distasteful, but the guy who works there is doubtless one of the biggest pricks in Park Slope. He lives on my block and has had unprovoked altercations with several of my neighbors, not to mention the perpetual sour look he has on his face which can dampen your mood in an instant. Even the smiling faced golden retriever he owns does nothing to mitigate the effect of his toxic personality. It’s like living near Schleprock. Wowsie wowsie woo woo.
“…. those on the east side by Rutland, Fenimore, Hawthorne etc are mostly section 8 units and are still very much crime-ridden.”
Give me a break. Wrong on both counts. As someone who lives here, I have to say that you have no idea what you’re talking about.
it will take a very long time for the large buildings to change due to rent control/stabilization.
The problem with 10:58’s argument for the Chester Court house is that the apartments along this stretch of Flatbush are not being “populated with young proffesionals” at all. That is true of some buildings on Ocean, Lincoln, and the one on the corner of Flatbush and Maple. But the buildings on the west side of Flatbush and those on the east side by Rutland, Fenimore, Hawthorne etc are mostly section 8 units and are still very much crime-ridden. Music blares from them all summer and there are often large groups of people hanging out late into the wee hours in front of these buildings. While they may eventually change, that is going to take a really, really long time.
Plung Protection Team will never allow another Black Monday to happen again. Only way it could happen were if a country like China or Japan said they decided to sell the dollar which they would never do because that would destroy the value of their holdings. It would almost be like an act of war.
IMO both 10:58 and 11:57 are right. The Chester Court house is a good value AND, by virtue of being so close to Flatbush Ave. may be, in some respects at least, the “worst PLG has to offer”. The thing is, for many people (myself included) PLG’s “worst” may not be bad at all.
YRMV 🙂
Ughh! Giuliani sucks big time.
I already have more than enough house, and I am tempted to walk down to Bainbridge and check it out…
…at that price.