Open House Picks
Clinton Hill 298 Lafayette Avenue Douglas Elliman Sunday 12-2 $1,995,000 GMAP P*Shark Boerum Hill 80 Hoyt Street FSBO Sunday 12:30-3:30 $1,780,000 GMAP P*Shark Park Slope 566 10th Street Brooklyn Properties Sat & Sun, 1-3 $1,499,000 GMAP P*Shark Park Slope 664 Degraw Street Corcoran Sunday 2:30-4 $1,395,000 GMAP P*Shark
Clinton Hill
298 Lafayette Avenue
Douglas Elliman
Sunday 12-2
$1,995,000
GMAP P*Shark
Boerum Hill
80 Hoyt Street
FSBO
Sunday 12:30-3:30
$1,780,000
GMAP P*Shark
Park Slope
566 10th Street
Brooklyn Properties
Sat & Sun, 1-3
$1,499,000
GMAP P*Shark
Park Slope
664 Degraw Street
Corcoran
Sunday 2:30-4
$1,395,000
GMAP P*Shark
5:07.
You took the bait and went postal.
Works every time.
“We came to Brooklyn because of the people”
So what kind of people was that?
All 2.4 million of them here. I’m curious to know how you will generalize an entire city of people to which you flocked here for…????
bye bye, kdabrowski! don’t let the door hit you.
where are all the people who base their opinions on real life things, instead of from mostly anonymous posters on a real estate blog (99% of which say things to rile you dimwitted people up…)
jeez. you just lost a lot of credibilty as a free thinking adult kdabrow.
maybe you should move to china??
4:47 – by “media” do you mean advertising or studio exec type? because there are very few other places in media where that’s a starting salary. EVERYONE I know works in the arts in one form or another – film, publishing, tv, etc – and NO ONE made that kind of salary at the beginning – unless they were studio types in CA.
ALSO, DC is awful for many reasons, and NYC is a million times more fun for many many reasons, but I am pretty shocked how many people on this site are such wussies when it comes to crime. The crime in DC is the least of it’s worries. The conservative and dull people are a far greater problem – it’s filled with paper pushing government bureaucrats and uptight preppies. ((for instance, the DC poster’s shock that the houses don’t have garages!!@!! perfectly illustrates what an absolute dolt he/she is)
And it’s really sad that a rare murder in Clinton Hill or Bedstuy makes people on this site completely dismiss them as places to live. Let me tell you, there was not ONE neighborhood in NYC in the 70s and 80s where there weren’t murders now and then. So depressing all these people who would never have touched NYC back then because of the crime and now are the ones driving up prices like crazy. I really would love a giant crime wave to flush these people back out to the suburbs.
by the way I own so am not a bitter renter.
3:45/4:16/4:17 you are SUCH a douchebag. Seen you posting around here all the time – “I work ‘in the arts,’ and make lots of money, and think everyone who makes less money than me is dirty and poor and unintelligent.” You spend so much time posting on this site, but still you post as a guest rather than register. I can’t quite put my finger on it, but there’s something craven in the way you post… seems like you KNOW you’re a douchebag, and therefore want to maintain your anonymity even while giving away details about your personal finances.
Not many jobs “in the arts” pay close to six figures. Analysts in financial firms do not make $200k+ right out of college. Bankers make good money out of college, but not analysts (not right away, anyway). “Run of the mill” traders do not make $2M+.
I think you’re not so in touch with real life. You have disdain for everyone who makes less than you. With a very low six-figure income (that must have been even lower when you were younger) you own two apartments, and at a rather young age. When did you save up the down payments for them? Probably you didn’t. Probably you got a hand out from mommy and daddy. Probably your job is the product of nepotism. Probably you’ve never had to go out and hit the job market with only your own skills to back you up; by your attitude it’s clear you never worked your way up to where you are, i.e. never achieved that on your own.
I’ll put my money where my mouth is: I’m about the same age, and I make $65k/year. If I wanted, I could have a job making ~$200k, which is a VERY nice salary for a 29 year-old, forget kids out of college. However, I choose to stay where I am because I love my job and live quite comfortably on this salary. Even with my small salary, I own an apartment in what Brownstoner considers a prime Brooklyn neighborhood. I saved for it and paid for it all by myself.
Do you think I’m delusional? Do you think I talk to cats? Do you think I’m dumber than you because I make less money?
I will say: if I did make $150K (or was married with a double middle-class income), I’d be sorely tempted to snatch up the 10th St house or the Degraw house. I love these small multifamily houses – they give me hope that I can eventually move up from an apartment to a house without selling out and becoming a rich jerkoff like the above poster.
Nice to see that the asking prices are not too pie-in-the-sky too. The Hoyt St. looks particularly good: something like 40% bigger than the Slope houses, and already renovated, but only 25-30% more expensive. That could go very close to asking (amazing for a FSBO). Makes me think that the Slope houses will go for about $100k below asking.
“I made 145k when I was 22 — in job in media”
Ha, sure!
We came to Brooklyn because of the people, and now we’re getting out because of the people. People like the “I make 150K and work in the arts”. Statistically your salary puts you in the top 5% of earners. You are blessed and very lucky. There is nothing wrong with making a good living, but why all the gloating.
All this entitlement and judgment. What happenened to all the cool easy going people? Where did you go? We want to follow.
4:51#1 = Mary-Kate Olsen
4:51 – Give me a break – the run-up of the last few years has resulted in properties costing double what they did 5-7 years ago. For prices to dip 20% is not going to crush the NYC economy – owners in many cases will barely feel the difference, unless they bought in the last 1-2 years.