Open House Picks
Park Slope 112 St. Marks Place Edie & Inga Sunday 12-3 $1,500,000 GMAP P*Shark Prospect Lefferts Gardens 74 Lincoln Road Brown Harris Stevens Sunday 1-3 $1,395,000 GMAP P*Shark Ditmas Park 47 Marlborough Road Corcoran Sunday 2:30-4:30 $1,049,000 GMAP P*Shark Clinton Hill 50 Putnam Avenue Mark David Sunday 1-1:45 $850,000 GMAP P*Shark
Park Slope
112 St. Marks Place
Edie & Inga
Sunday 12-3
$1,500,000
GMAP P*Shark
Prospect Lefferts Gardens
74 Lincoln Road
Brown Harris Stevens
Sunday 1-3
$1,395,000
GMAP P*Shark
Ditmas Park
47 Marlborough Road
Corcoran
Sunday 2:30-4:30
$1,049,000
GMAP P*Shark
Clinton Hill
50 Putnam Avenue
Mark David
Sunday 1-1:45
$850,000
GMAP P*Shark
You don’t realize that a wine store is also going in on that strip. Cafe, restaurant, wine store, bank, grocery. I see this as a very nice solution to a lack of amenities. Especially when they are all one one block.
You both are idots. Park Slope was an amazingly hip wonderful neighborhood when I was a kid–it was a lot smaller, but the center was never a ghetto in any sense. People having been moving to the slope since the early 50’s. I know you recent arrivals think it has all happened in 5 years, but your totally wrong. My floor-through has 20 foot ceilings and a 24 by 15 living room. Quite big and open thanks.
Yes the Lincoln house is close to the two new stores on Lincoln, but you have to cross Flatbush to get there. As for the tower having “the retail the neighborhood has been waiting for” last I read on the PLG blog it was going to have either a bank or a grocery store. Nice, but hardly a solution to the areas lack of amenities. Anyway, I like parts of the area–that’s why I am looking for houses there. I just don’t like this block of Lincoln road and I don’t want to be anywhere near Flatbush.
Lincoln Road is where the turnover of the retail strip, including Flatbush, started. The cafe, K-Dog, is on Lincoln Road, as is Enduro. This house is well placed to access the new amenities coming into PLG. The new tower that is being built on Lincoln road (across Flatbush) will house retail the neighborhood has been waiting for. The apts across from this house are very cool prewar buildings that have also been turning over. Your floorthru dweller who posted above has no idea what they are talking about. But then again, I don’t find floorthru brownstone apartments airy or big.
4:40 — You’ve gone from nauseating to humorously provincial (not to mention blissfully ignorant). You brag about your Park Slope apartment’s “big open rooms, like all Brownstones” when most Brownstones have tiny hall rooms or awkward middle parlors that have to be opened up and added to other rooms to make them workable. And from what I’ve heard much of your neighborhood was considered a ghetto when you were born there 37 years ago, many of the Brownstones derelict and empty. Your attitude is like an SUV — needlessly inflated, compensatory and bad for the environment. Sorry.
5:22 “Putnam house has that in the shadow of the BQE look.” Huh? Putnam Avenue starts at Fulton Street at Cambridge Place and stretches across Bed Stuy to Bushwick. No where near the BQE. On thing I didn’t say earlier was that it stands catty-corner to a block which is to be added to the Clinton Hill Landmark District.
It’s funny – when I actually know something about one of the properties it really highlights how superficial and knee-jerk most of the commentary on this site is. Someone calling a block in the North Slope a “slum.” Do you even know what a slum is? Snooze…
If the Lincoln Road house was in this condition and in DP area (PPS or DP) it would sell for around the $1.8 mark.
“leave this discussion to people who love the mix of urban bustle and pre-war grace that is Brooklyn.”
I really hate those posters who attack anyone who doesn’t want to live in an edgy fringe neighborhood as not being “real” Brooklynites. Lots of us who adore Brownstone Brooklyn have no interest in living in those areas. The poster may have been a bit snotty about it, but there’s nothing wrong with what he is saying–those areas are fine for some, but not for many (and probably most) of us.
The St Mark’s Place house is truly a slum. How absurd to ask $1.5m. Also it’s a depressing block. The building facades are almost slap up against the sidewalk. No front yards or greenery at all. I walk or ride down here several times a week and have always found the streetscape to be drab and dismal.
I, 4:40, am living where I have always lived–in park slope. Born here, stayed here for 37 years. Never had a SUV. Live in a lovely floor-through–with big, open rooms, as in all brownstones. I’d like more space, but don’t want to live on a scuzzy block looking at apartment buildings and near a ghetto strip of Flatbush. Sorry.