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
I live right around the corner from the Bed-Stuy house. I cannot believe that anyone who has posted about this part of Bed Stuy being dangerous, ugly, run-down, etc., etc. has actually been here. It is a beautiful neighborhood where I live happily and comfortably with my 12-year-old daughter.
Take the A train (or the C, or the B52, 26 or 25 bus) to Nostrand Ave. and walk around, and then tell me how horrible my neighborhood is. All the blocks between Nostrand and Marcy from Fulton to Putnam (Macon, Halsey, Hancock, Jefferson) are just beautiful, crowned by the incredible former Boy’s High School building on Marcy stretching from Putnam to Madison. Amazing brownstones! The block on which the open house pick is located is actually better than the block between Nostrand and Marcy, which has an unfortunate scatter-site housing project close to Nostrand but is otherwise fine.
retarded conspiracy theories. i am a buyer who passed back in 2006 b/c the price was too high. i would’ve offered 999k back then if the market on this block wasn’t so pumped and now it isn’t so the offer is more feasible.
i’m guessing you are the broker or seller.
i’m not following your logic.
it might be a great house, but the price for the midwood house is high by a hundred grand or so.
at least.
exactly. opportunity now to get it at the right price. it’s a great place if priced correctly.
so 42 midwood may not even make back its 2006 purchase price?
it’s only listed for 15k more than they paid for it over a year ago.
how does that sound like a good investment?
sounds like it was overpriced in 2006 and still overpriced in 2008 to me.
8:03 and 8:36:
Let’s hope so! But I remember the ugly graffiti in the subways and school houses in the ’50’s (not the “art” kind, but the racist kind that preceded it). It was anonymous, too, and symptomatic of what a large number of people were feeling at the time but not daring to say out loud (except in private). Sometimes, bashing on Curb and Brownstoner can be more unnerving than the old-fashioned kind because it’s much more carefully written, revealing its authors’ relative high levels of education. (And affluence. It takes more money to be “wired” than pick up a magic marker or pen knife!).
And thanks, 8:03, for the kind word.
NOP
i looked at 42 midwood back in the summer 06 when it was for sale for 1.25. house is huge with lots of detail and great potential. it is literally screaming to be pimped. in a tasteful manner of course.
anyway looks like owner bought in nov 2006 for 1.135 and now is looking to unload for a de minimis gain. if i hadn’t since committed elsewhere i’d be in there with an offer in a minute – good opportunity to get a decent value buy.
NOP- I think NYC IS a much more socially reasonable place to live than what you would think from readings blogs. I wouldn’t judge reality by posters- too many love the anononymity of the web and use it to vent things they wouldn’t have the guts to say out loud. Then there are those who love the web and use it like a library for their interests. But I think the majority of people really don’t spend a ton of time on blogs so the viewpoint we get is really skewed.I put more trust in what happens every day when i walk out the door than the picture I see painted on the blogs.
I am actually very interested in investing (and living) in BedStuy right now. I am going to wait until the summer as I think the prices still need to rectify, then look to pick something up. I think this year is absolutely a very good time to buy in both BS and CH. the prices are coming down and low offers accepted (even more then,I expect), while rates are still historically low. I think both BS and Crown Heights have the most interesting communities developing (like clinton hill, but it’s now too pricey for me).
After 9/11 the S&P was in the 800’s- look at it now. I genuinely think the beautiful houses in BS & CHeights will be great values in 5-10 years and are great areas.
how ’bout you WHATfuck? what’s your thoughts on that? if you were looking for a house to really live in- and weren’t afraid of non-white people- would you buy a house in the 600’s in either community?