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
“The alternative is to perpetuate some PC fiction that every neighborhood in NYC is as good and safe and desirable as any other”
I’ve never actually encountered anyone (PC or not) who made such a ridiculous assertion. I HAVE seen it proposed here as a straw man which can be easily demolished, for whatever that’s worth.
Montrose:
“You want to argue about pricing in the hood? Fine. We can. We can talk about crime or anything else, too, if it can be discussed in a rational manner…”
But talking about pricing, by definition, means talking about how much as given hood is worth, and that in turn means talking about differences between hoods. That, in turn, means talking about crime, quality of life, businesses, schools–all the things that offend people here, because they are in some way about “people.”
The alternative is to perpetuate some PC fiction that every neighborhood in NYC is as good and safe and desirable as any other. If that is the case, then pricing is simple: all neighborhoods should be priced the same, and the more expensive one is, the more overpriced it is.
The problem is, we all know that’s a load of crap.
I just brought my late grandaunts Queen Ann style 121 year old house on MacDonough Street in Stuyvesant hts(btwn throop and tompkins) last year and I love it there. My family has lived on that block for over 70 years and not one person in the family has ever been robbed or killed. I plan to live here until my children can take over…
I was a seven year resident of Park Slope and I loved the area when I first moved there but not it just feels like the UWS but I do miss the beautiful park…
3:07,
I know who “LM” is [actually anyone who clicks on his handle would know] and he’s neither the seller nor the broker.
42 Midwood is a beautiful Axel Hedmon-designed house on my favorite LM block [my own block has slightly more modest houses].
“It’s more like a city than Park Slope, and either that city vibe feels good to you or it scares you. Whatever.”
I don’t personally associate living in a predominently black (as a white person) and poverty-stricken neighborhood with more of a city vibe.
That is a very 1970’s vision of a city.
I base my impressions of city living on some of the great ones in the world like London, Paris, Barcelona, Buenos Aires, and Sydney.
None of which feel at all to me like Bed Stuy.
But parts of them certainly do feel like Park Slope to me. I’d say the influx of tourists to the neighborhood would say they feel the same.
But I guess you would say I’m wrong, and that all the tourists are actually at Tiny Cup.
Crime statistics are really hard to make meaningful.
Another way to look at crime in NYC in 2007:
Crimes against strangers fell so low in every single borough in 2007 that the chances of being a crime victim if you are not in a bad relationship, know a bad person, or are a drug dealer, are negligible.
Glenwood Road isn’t in Midwood, it’s in the West Midwood section of Victorian Flatbush, for whatever that’s worth. Glenwood is a lovely street, with planted medians like on Albermarle and East 17th. That block deadends on the Brighton line cut, so you’ll hear train noise, but there’s no traffic and, because of the medians, no curbside parking allowed, so kids can and do play in the street.
Four bedrooms sounds small for that neighborhood – most houses have five to seven. Either these are huge bedrooms, or there’s only a partial third floor.
I like living in Bed Stuy a lot. The people are nicer and it’s more convenient to Manhattan than where I used to live (Greenpoint). People are sassy and fun with you, the street is really alive, weird stuff happens. It’s more like a city than Park Slope, and either that city vibe feels good to you or it scares you. Whatever.
The Bed Stuy boosters are FEROCIOUS today!
Yes, your neighborhood was one of 4 that experiences a HIGHER MURDER RATE IN 2007 OVER 2006.
Do something about it please instead of turn a blind eye and say it didn’t happen!
That’s what the burbs are for.