Open House Picks
Cobble Hill 28 Verandah Place Brown Harris Stevens Sat 12-2, Sun 12-2 $3,100,000 GMAP P*Shark Prospect Heights 129 Prospect Place Brooklyn Properties Sunday 12-1:30 $2,650,000 GMAP P*Shark Victorian Flatbush 2117 Albemarle Terrace Brown Harris Stevens Sat 1-3, Sun 1-4 $979,000 GMAP P*Shark Ditmas Park 493 Stratford Road Ditmas Estates Sunday 3-5 $899,000 GMAP P*Shark
Cobble Hill
28 Verandah Place
Brown Harris Stevens
Sat 12-2, Sun 12-2
$3,100,000
GMAP P*Shark
Prospect Heights
129 Prospect Place
Brooklyn Properties
Sunday 12-1:30
$2,650,000
GMAP P*Shark
Victorian Flatbush
2117 Albemarle Terrace
Brown Harris Stevens
Sat 1-3, Sun 1-4
$979,000
GMAP P*Shark
Ditmas Park
493 Stratford Road
Ditmas Estates
Sunday 3-5
$899,000
GMAP P*Shark
Ditto, Buttermilk Channel.
The tiny Abelmarle Terrace Historic District is beyond charming–my husband and I made an offer on a house there some years ago. While we were in contract, I went back and forth to the house a number of times at different times of day and realized I wouldn’t feel safe much after dark walking by myself. And I’ve lived in some less than stellar neighborhoods.
In addition, the neighborhood could be unspeakably noisy–shops blocks away blaring music invaded our potential backyard to be.
We ended up reneging on the contract and lost a few bucks, but it was the right thing for us to do.
I’ve gone to open houses there over the years because I adore the houses, but it’s a tough sell. The folks in the Historic District seem to be a great tight-knit group, but the surrounding area is not Victorian Flatbush.
As a side note, the “walking around drunk” test is never a good one, in any neighborhood. You are a victim waiting to happen.
Albemarle Terrace home sold for 460K in October 2005. Beautiful place, amazing gem of a block, but tough neighborhood. My grandmother owned two homes in the neighborhood until a decade ago, and I’ve spent a lot of time there over the years. It has not changed that much in the past twenty years. I’d think twice about walking around the neighborhood drunk at 3am.
Just for the record…not sure why I haven’t seen any posts on this unless I missed them…the “what” and the old guest(s) signing as “The What” are not the same person. The old “The What” seems never took a signon name when Blownsteiner left the land of anonymous posting. The young guy who took up the moniker under the name “what” was not ye olde The What of yesteryear. The new “what” was not The What simply taking his meds. T’was a different person.
Kind of too bad. I miss some of The What’s stuff. The new “what” guy was too reasonable and thoughtful for the most part. I mean, could have been the same person but it’s highly unlikely if you compare the syntax, grammar, typing, thought patterns.
Oh, well. The sky IS falling…’what’ever…we may all just have to escape to the country and leave landmarked Brooklyn behind us. It was a good run though.
Wow—such frazzled nerves around here today.
Pierre: I didn’t make any kind of strong assumptions based on Google maps. I just looked around at the pictures and it looked to me like a perfectly typical Brooklyn neighborhood. I have driven through that area before and it hasn’t seemed dangerous to me. But I am sure that other people have different assessments.
Whuh–you are the real loser here. Like the Twat you are prone to hyperbolic statements that imagine all of the readers of this blog a monolithic bloc of yuppie aggressors. Such a juvenile, two dimensional way to look at the world. Not much else to say about somebody who is so shallow and lame.
Yeah, but where’s he going to send his kids to school? I suppose he’ll have enough stashed away for private, too.
Hey, CobbleHiller –I’ll no doubt return once or twice to rub it in –and maybe that’s a topic for me and my God (or shrink). But really, all you posters who came on here year after year to hype houses and neighborhoods –and insult some shut-in from New Jersey –it was you who let your unconscious fears of loss in the face of an improbable bubble rule your life. I, who am not in fact The What, prepared for this rainy day, and am planning to buy, with cash, a lovely house in Cobble Hill. Who is the real loser here?
Flatbushrising:
I am glad you have had no bad experiences in your neighborhood. Can you defend your neighborhood without having to trash others in comparison?
Oh, I will be so sad to see if the house on ablermarle is really in a terrible location. It’s just beautiful. But – as I have learned in the real estate market in NY – it will never be perfect unless you have over $3mm to spend (at least).
Flatbushdemata – what do you consider not safe at night?
I get out of a cab at Flatbush $ Caton drunk at 3 in the morning to walk home and have never had a problem.
I don’t think a couple of blocks down it can be that different.
Oh wait – there are people that don’t look like me on the streets so it must be scary.
Different doesn’t have to mean bad people – get over it.
Not everyone can afford to live in the suburbs that many ‘choice’ Brooklyn areas are becoming. Having lived in Flatbush for over a year I’ve not had a single issue – yet hear about muggings and such in ‘Almost Prime’ over priced areas like Clinton Hill all the time.