Open House Picks
Carroll Gardens 447 Sackett Street Brooklyn Bridge Realty Sunday 12-1:30 $1,299,000 GMAP P*Shark Prospect Lefferts Gardens 42 Midwood Street Jackie Wong Saturday 3-5 $1,150,000 GMAP P*Shark Midwood 1431 Glenwood Road Fillmore Sunday 12-1:30 $969,000 GMAP P*Shark Bedford Stuyvesant 366 Putnam Avenue Century 21 Sunday 11:30-1 $739,000 GMAP P*Shark
Carroll Gardens
447 Sackett Street
Brooklyn Bridge Realty
Sunday 12-1:30
$1,299,000
GMAP P*Shark
Prospect Lefferts Gardens
42 Midwood Street
Jackie Wong
Saturday 3-5
$1,150,000
GMAP P*Shark
Midwood
1431 Glenwood Road
Fillmore
Sunday 12-1:30
$969,000
GMAP P*Shark
Bedford Stuyvesant
366 Putnam Avenue
Century 21
Sunday 11:30-1
$739,000
GMAP P*Shark
To simply join the party and either bash or support the Bed-stuy neighborhood would be futile. To bother commenting on the veiled racist remarks would just be a waste of time. First, artists aren’t the backbone of this neighborhood. There are some long standing decent families in this neighborhood. And Putnam, from Stuyvesant all the way to Nostrand and beyond is one of the more beautiful blocks outside of stuy-heights. I’ve lived here for close to 3 years now, and I love it. Of course it sounds like I’m biased, but we don’t need anyone’s permission to believe that our neighborhood is a great one.
In fact, its probably best that the nay sayers stay out of Bed-Stuy. Because you are the people that make for the sour neighbors that don’t speak and make a place like this less desirable. I love when I walk my 7 blocks from the A/C train to Putnam and turn the corner and can say hello to everyone of my neighbors. The things that make living in a neighborhood a little more convenient will come. but the area is good the way it is now.
As far as the neighborhood not surviving a recession(which we’re already in by the way), there couldn’t be a more rediculous comment. Like an earlier poster said, we survived the crack epedemic.
So, if you don’t like the ‘hood, just keep moving… nothing to see here, just keep moving!!
The Glenwood house, seemingly in move-in condition may just be the deal of the day. Hard to find anything under 1 million in Victorian Flatbush that isn’t a complete fixer-upper. Fillmore tends to underprice. I bought my house through them about five years ago, and it was a relative deal then, compare to what other brokers were asking for similar properties. Worth a look.
LOVED Montrose Morris’s post. I moved to Bed Stuy almost a year ago, so I don’t know from history.
But it is true that while the neighborhood I live in is *not* perfect, I have never met a tighter-knit group of neighbors, and I have never felt more connected to a place. I don’t really give a damn what the market does. For all its rough edges, my corner of Bed Stuy is good right now.
I have a beautiful looking house on a street full of beautiful, thoughtful people. I may not have a great supermarket nearby, but I do have neighbors who will always go out of their way to tell me if I have left my car lights on or if I am in street cleaning arrears.
I may have drug dealers on my street, but I also have a strong, vigilant block association.
I may hear gunshots once a quarter, but I have never, ever felt unsafe in my neighborhood or in my house.
That’s a pretty house Bob Marvin provided the link for.
It says “bedroom” for the room just beyond the living room, but I’d make that a family room/tv section and open up the back wall of the living room to make an open layout, letting sunlight enter all across the floor. In houses that have done that it’s very nice and very functional.
Sorry to come so late to the party, but I just loved the earlier comment about Myrtle Ave in Fort Greene and Fifth Ave in Park Slope being such nice streets, with cafes, etc. When I lived in Fort Greene, in the 1990’s (and loved it!), no-one I knew ever went past Dekalb — and certainly not all the way to Murder Ave! And Fifth Ave was scary then too — I remember visiting a friend who rented a house on 1st St just off Fifth Ave. and was never so scared anywhere before (this is when I lived in Fort Greene).
Even today, I think there’s more going on on Myrtle in Clinton Hill than in Fort Greene, for whatever reason…
I saw the house on Sackett few month ago, the pictures are the wrong, this house is a dump and need total gut renovation. Nobody lives there. They puled it out of the market in order to prevent it from being “branded”
Fantastic post on Concord Church, Montrose Morris. Always enjoy your voice and your background on BKLYN.
Montrose, nice to hear about Concord Church. My grandpa was born on Madison Street (they were the first owners of the house he lived in). He went to Boys High. His great, great (my great x3) grandfather (white guys, different neighborhood back then) was part of the Marcy Avenue Baptist Church that was on the corner of Putnam and Marcy (the buildng was later acquired by the Concord Baptist church) congregation. This link has a picture of the old building which was lost in a fire. Pretty cool history of the site etc. http://www.nycago.org/Organs/Bkln/html/ConcordBapt.html
Another larger and more expensive LM house, on the same block as # 42:
http://www.corcoran.com/property/listing.aspx?Region=NYC&ListingID=1069827
I saw the listing because I have a Google Alert set for anything related to Lefferts Manor.
The broker lives in the area and was a member of the Lefferts Manor Association’s Board a number of years ago.