This Weekend's Open House Picks
Park Slope 146 Sterling Place Douglas Elliman Sunday 12:30-2 $2,995,000 GMAP P*Shark Fort Greene 76 South Elliott Place Brown Harris Stevens Sunday 2-4 $2,795,000 GMAP P*Shark Fort Greene 135 Saint Felix Street Corcoran Sunday 1-4 $1,699,000 GMAP P*Shark Bedford Stuyvesant 522 Madison Street Corcoran Sunday 10-11 $624,960 GMAP P*Shark
Park Slope
146 Sterling Place
Douglas Elliman
Sunday 12:30-2
$2,995,000
GMAP P*Shark
Fort Greene
76 South Elliott Place
Brown Harris Stevens
Sunday 2-4
$2,795,000
GMAP P*Shark
Fort Greene
135 Saint Felix Street
Corcoran
Sunday 1-4
$1,699,000
GMAP P*Shark
Bedford Stuyvesant
522 Madison Street
Corcoran
Sunday 10-11
$624,960
GMAP P*Shark
READ THE ARTICLE AT 3:18.
IT SPEAKS VOLUMES!!!!!
Interesting article, but a little short of actual facts.
Okay, 3:12, I’ll play. I grew up in the suburbs. My parents live in the suburbs. My brothers live in the suburbs. My oldest friends live in the suburbs. Some of my colleagues live in the suburbs. So I know plenty of people in the suburbs. I have lived in 3 different large cities in 3 different regions of the United States over the last 15 years due to my career, and in EVERY SINGLE CITY have seen the dramatic improvements to downtown urban areas and seen cities investing tons of money into it because there is so much interest now to live there.
As for you, have you been anywhere other than Jersey?
ever seen the LIE turn into a parking lot at 3:30 pm?
Also lots of cancer in the burbs from cheap homes on top of old landfills.
Where do you think all the crap from the Industrial Revolution was dumped?
I love the people who come on here with this story that people in the suburbs have no friends, never socialize, are all bored and maladjusted and spend their spare time down in the basement or driving to the mall in their 5 SUVs. Come on folks. Surely you don’t really believe this. There are fun, interesting, and social communities in many many places outside of brownstone Brooklyn. And, many of them are far less expensive, have better schools, and a lot to offer if you don’t have an overwhelming urge to be able to take the subway everywhere and order take-out from 3 different places every week. Some of you need to get out of Park Slope (or wherever) a little more. If the fact that you had an unhappy childhood in the suburbs makes you happy to spend $3 mill on a brownstone in Brooklyn, fine for you, but many people can’t and won’t choose that option, and will be just fine.
geez, 3:16 and others read too many NewYork magazine and other fluff media on fashionable trends – All without real demographic data to supstantiate.
I love NYC, brownstone Brooklyn, etc and certainly have option of where I want to live – but I don’t ignore reality and deceive myself after reading stupid mag articles.
NYC escalation in real estate prices is due more to increase population BECAUSE OF FOREIGN IMMIGRATION – not because of affluent whiteys from suburbs or Ohio moving here.
3:17…
there are MANY good schools in Park Slope including the one zoned for Sterling Place.
Do some research.
The schools in PS are better than pretty much any other area of Brooklyn, so if you find a cheaper place in another neighborhood, you are going to have to use private school anyway.
$20 a year for each kid. It adds up.
Everyone here should read this article. You might not agree with ALL of it, but it has a lot of great observations about what is going on in American society right now:
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200803/subprime
Interesting posts-
I am a current buyer because it makes sense for my family to buy now. But, I am prepared to lose money. I think that prices in prime Park Slope will come down. I don’t think there is consensus amongst the experts on the level of risk in this real estate market. Does anyone have thoughts on houses (like Sterling Place) that cannot access 321? I imagine houses in such areas will be worth less than houses in 321 when prices drop? With several school age kids, can’t imagine spending an arm and a leg on a house and private school.