Open House Picks
Brooklyn Heights 5 Columbia Place Douglas Elliman Sunday 12-2 $3,695,000 GMAP P*Shark Park Slope 97 Park Place Brown Harris Stevens Sunday 12:30-2 $1,999,999 GMAP P*Shark South Slope 148 14th Street Warren Lewis Sunday 12-2 $1,095,000 GMAP P*Shark Bedford Stuyvesant 608 Madison Street Corcoran Sunday 2-3:30 $699,000 GMAP P*Shark
Brooklyn Heights
5 Columbia Place
Douglas Elliman
Sunday 12-2
$3,695,000
GMAP P*Shark
Park Slope
97 Park Place
Brown Harris Stevens
Sunday 12:30-2
$1,999,999
GMAP P*Shark
South Slope
148 14th Street
Warren Lewis
Sunday 12-2
$1,095,000
GMAP P*Shark
Bedford Stuyvesant
608 Madison Street
Corcoran
Sunday 2-3:30
$699,000
GMAP P*Shark
11217–we are having a silly non-argument. I concede your points on pricing and certainly the 2/3/Q is a better transport set up than the G/C for most places in the city. I just like the look and feel of my neighborhood more, and am glad that the housing stock is cheaper as I could actually afford it.
Thanks wasder and gemini10 for the sympathy. It wasn’t entirely expected nor entirely unwanted, but the timing is a little painful since she’s not legally clear to work anywhere else in this country yet (we got married at the end of nov and the paperwork is taking forever).
wasder, you’re right, with 20% down we could get it to something we could basically afford on my salary alone, but we don’t have 20% of $700k to put down. Right now our down payment fund is only sitting at around $30k. It’s growing pretty rapidly, but we’re a long way away from $140k 🙂
Lowe’s, certainly. Not Ikea. Not a good idea to cross Hamilton on foot with bags and boxes of home furnishings.
Dosteov(ski??), it’s the last block before it get’s largely industrial. You are near Hamilton and the elevated Gowanus x-way. Looks to me like a hearty and not-yet-too gentrified S. Slope block. But it is west of 4th, which is a deal-breaker for some.
And Wasder, I can’t think of too many folks who wouldn’t rather live near the 2/3/Q than the G or C. That part seems a little silly to even try to compare the two.
Wasder…don’t get me wrong…I’m thrilled that you love where you live. Trust me…in my age category not everyone I know thinks as highly of Park Slope as I do, but it suits me perfectly. It’s totally home for me. So I get what you are saying and I’m not trying to be argumentative.
All I’m saying is that once prime neighborhood prices have dropped to the equivalent of less prime neighborhood prices, there will be people looking to cut and run.
This Park Place listing is either a great deal or it’s significant because I think that there are a lot of people who bought 2 million dollar homes in “lesser” areas who would prefer to live there. I know it’s not lesser to you, but I think MOST people would prefer to be near to the things I mention AND be able to have their kids walk to school in their own school zone.
sam, why do you say the Columbia Street house is small? Did you click on all five pages of the floorplan? It actually looks pretty amazing, and would be well-priced to sell if this were January 2007 or even January 2008. In January 2009, though, who knows? And who cares if it’s across the street from a “non-prestige” rental building. It’s a block from the promenade, with Manhattan views from the roofdeck.
hmm you couldn’t really walk to Ikea and hope to get there in a short amount of time
unless you know a shortcut and if so please tell!!
one advantage of the 14th Street house is that you can walk to IKEA. It is more Red Hook than Park Slope over there in those grey-area blocks.
That 14th street house is sweet. With interests rates going so low it’s tempting. How’s that area of Park Slope?