Open House Picks
Carroll Gardens 415 Sackett Street Douglas Elliman Sunday 12-2 $2,000,000 GMAP P*Shark Red Hook 173 Beard Street Corcoran Sunday 2-3:30 $1,179,000 GMAP P*Shark Ditmas Park 664 Westminster Road Brooklyn Properties Sunday 2-4 $995,000 GMAP P*Shark Carroll Gardens 591 Hicks Street Vespa Properties Sunday 2-3:30 $650,000 GMAP P*Shark
Carroll Gardens
415 Sackett Street
Douglas Elliman
Sunday 12-2
$2,000,000
GMAP P*Shark
Red Hook
173 Beard Street
Corcoran
Sunday 2-3:30
$1,179,000
GMAP P*Shark
Ditmas Park
664 Westminster Road
Brooklyn Properties
Sunday 2-4
$995,000
GMAP P*Shark
Carroll Gardens
591 Hicks Street
Vespa Properties
Sunday 2-3:30
$650,000
GMAP P*Shark
Of course Kris. And I’m sure some of them do indeed want a 4 story house with a 5 BR triplex. That said, I also assume that a key demographic for houses this size are buyers with children.
You know, there are plenty of people out here who don’t have kids. And aren’t gonna have them. So the whole school district thing is a non-issue.
Lots of typos today – am multi-tasking too much since I’m working from home and trying to get stuff done while my kid naps! Hope my posts make sense nonetheless…
oe – PS29 is a top school in Cobble Hill. PS32 is the one under discussion here. Have you actually researched this?
Also, you can get zone maps on insideschools.org – a great resource with info on NYC public schools, though there are others so get a balanced picture, it’s helpful to check out several sources (including parents you know).
And it’s not that you *have* to be special ed to go to PS32 – it’s just that special ed is their strength. I’ve heard less than great things from parents of general ed kids, and I’m afraid I would not feel comfortable going there. But you know, these decisions are all intensely person (as are neighborhood decisions). Some families love a school, and another family may feel very differently about the very same school. You have to do what’s right for you and your kid.
But for me, PS32 makes Sackett a non-starter.
The issues with PS 29 have nothing to do with their special ed program, which is very well regarded. It’s just that the rest of the school does not have a great rep. It goes back to the fact that parts of the projects are zoned for that school, unlike PS 58.
Call it racism, classism or realism, depending on your point of view.
Woops, basementalist, thanks for catching my error – indeed, I was calculating tuition for 12 years. That said, a lot of people I know find it hard to leave private school in 6th grade, even if zone is no longer an option. It’s just a very sensitive time (early adolescence) to remove a kid from cocoon of private school to tougher public school environment. And then, while there are great public high schools, maybe if you’ve already done K-8 private, it could be harder to switch to public in high school too. But, for sure, we’re talking minimum 6 years with 2 kids, and the tuition is closer to 30K, so that right there is $360K, and if you add middle school, another 180K. Not to mention all the ethical reasons I would prefer public school. Private is just not an option for us right now, period.
mcKenzie: http://maps.nycboe.net/index.asp. but you’d really have to call the school to get up-to-date info on whether you’re in the catchment.
sebb: i think a lot of people would disagree with you, but your boosterism is noted.
My thing to get over was negotiating a change (rather than one train or bus). But now I am really happy to have many possible ways home and to work – lots of different trains to downtown BK, wait for the bus, or ride the F and walk home from Carroll St. Living in Carroll Gardens and being dependent on the F was WAY worse.