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
“these are all kinda fringe area properties”
If you think carroll gardens is fringe the way
crappy prospect lefferts is fringe your smoking crack … and should move to bed stuy.
Why would a Brooklyn house have a septic tank.
I’ve seen the sackett street house, broker informed me there are serious septic tank issues, in addition , there is a huge above ground pool occupying the whole backyard filled with green sludge.
The upper floors need alot of work and one of the bathrooms needs to be completed gutted due to water damage.
Actually this part of bed stuy had a 28% Decrease in murders and sales figures for the area are still healty. The neighborhood still has it’s problems but that is why the house has a $400,000 discount compared to the same home 4 blocks over in Clinton Hill.
2:33…
While there are many people interested in new construction condos, most people looking for a brownstone in Brownstone Brooklyn are not the same buyer looking at new condos in Williamsburg.
They are very different buyers.
I wouldn’t move to Williamsburg if you paid me. Nothing against the neighborhood, I just know I only want to live in a charming old building.
Apples and Oranges.
The broker’s description of 447 Sackett Street appears to be at odds with Property Shark and the building photo. I see 2 upper floors and a basement (and PShark shows 1995 square feet/665 per floor). Thus, the asking price is roughly $651 p/s/f. Unless I am missing something, that seems a little high for a down market.
totally agree with many of these posters. look at condos in williamsburg – for the same money, you can get a ready to go brand new condo in a totally safe, gentrified neighborhood close to manhattan.
if you are a buyer, think twice about crime ridden ghetto hoods.
I’m not the Bed Stuy booster, but I don’t agree with you 2:27.
I do believe Bed Stuy has made significant improvements (unquestionable!) but there is still tons to be done.
I agree that some are living in dream world (they have to, because they bought at high levels) but you are obviously quite new to Brownstone Brooklyn, because 10 years ago, you wouldn’t have walked down either Myrtle Avenue OR 5th Avenue at night!
You are very VERY short-sighted. And while I don’t believe Bed Stuy will gentrify at the same rate that Ft. Greene and Park Slope did (it has many more social ills and a higher concentration of poverty to overcome) certainly the neighborhood will make progress over time with the influx of new more wealthy residents.
They just need to do more than tout the neighborhood as the next paradise.
They need to get involved with the PTA, need to try to improve services and need to SUPPORT their local businesses.
Too often I see people who live in Bed Stuy who basically own a home there, but have no connection with their neighborhood at all. They shop in Manhattan, that take cabs everywhere and they really are not a part of the neighborhood like their Park Slope and Ft. Greene counterparts, who really from the ground up rebuilt those neighborhoods.
” If we go into a full-blown recession, places like Bed Stuy will feel the brunt of it.
And will also be the last place to show signs of increase.
The prices there are simply unsustainble at these levels.”
Very true–and equally true of Midwood, PLG, Crown Heights, and others. They may all be fabulous places to live, but they need a good 10 years of solid change and growth before the prices are sustainable in a down economy–or in any market but a boom.