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
Ms muffett, thanks for the info. It seems odd to make parents send their kids to a school that specializes in special needs if their kids do not have special needs(?).
Where did you find a map of the different school catchment areas? I could only find one of the school districts which are large areas and contain many schools.
Miss Muffett: (1) Thanks for your answer.
(2) Don’t get your estimate of $750k in private school tuition for 2 kids. For 6 years of school (K thru 5) that works out to $62,500 per year per child. Keep in mind that once you’re in middle school, the elementary school zone does not determine what schools you can go to. (Whereas if the argument is all public middle & high school is bad, then that applies to any house, anywhere.)
At say $25K a year tuition, then 25 x 2 kids x 6 years = $300k, no? (Not chump change still, I know!)
“PS58 is the only K to 5th grade public school in NYC offering a French dual language program.” Whoa. Is it too late for me to go?
Rob, guess what they have in the houses in Ocean Hill? A toilet (toilet only, no sink or anything else) that is technically in or next to the kitchen but it opens off the porch. It’s like an old outhouse that has gotten halfway to inside the house, but not quite inside. I think it is so cool. I guess I saw a few of them growing up in California. Makes me feel all fuzzy.
Am glad someone from Red Hook is here to dispel some of the uncomfortability people tend to have about living/communting there
thanks mshook
IcamIsaw: I commute from Red Hook every morning on the b61. A little further down the line from that house, but I am at Union Sq in 20-25 minutes. I walk to the 4 and 5, from Court St, though, rather than sit on my butt and get the F or the A. A friend of mine calls that end of Red Hook Cape Cod.
I came I saw – The commute to midtown can be excruciating (B61 to Boro Hall to any train: 1 hr) or sublime (bike to Brooklyn Heights, take the A: 30-35min). My husband does the latter every day, or I drop him at the train when I take the kids to school.
The real danger of living in Red Hook is that you never want to leave. I live and work here, and it’s perfect.
Miss Muffett: This must be the first time i agreed with you. PS 58 is not a good school but a great one. PS58 is the only K to 5th grade public school in NYC offering a French dual language program. Combine that with the principal who is wonderful and you now see why PS 58 has become more desired than PS 29.
McKenzie – depends *where* in Carroll Gardens. PS58 indeed is very good. Sackett is in PS32, which evidently specializes in special needs kids, and may be good at that (I don’t know enough about their particular approach). But it is definitely not the right school for me, and from the research I’ve done, has mixed parent reviews. And, as is clear from Page 1 of New York Times today, parents absolutely cannot expect to get variances out of zone anymore, so buying a home (if you have young kids) in a zone where you don’t like the school is a very bad idea unless you are prepared to pay for private school, which is not even an option for me. And increasingly, is not an option for many other New Yorkers.
Ms. Muffet: I thought the public schools were good in carroll gardens. Why do you say it is a bad school zone?