Open House Picks

Did any one check out the house on Rugby?

Obviously, not having the Q service is a temporary but necessary inconvenience in order to repair the tracks and stations along the route. If someone knows how to repair and improve the tracks without stopping service, please advise the Transit Authority. However, there are buses into the area including the shuttles that will replace the train service. You can also just take the IRT to the Junction and walk over to this open house. Most buyers interested in houses in this area generally speaking will have cars and can drive to open houses though. Even if the trains were in service, I don’t know that this house would get that much traffic at that price/condition and being further away from Cortelyou.

Now, if you really know Brooklyn, which extends far beyond Prospect Park, you would not consider this area remote or inaccessible. Remote would be City Line, maybe the Paedergats and Sea Gate. Inaccessible would be -nowhere in Brooklyn. You can take a train and/or bus to get anywhere in the borough.

I wish there were better pictures of the Rugby Road house.

Rugby Road has a garage which is next to the house, rather than in the rear. I like this setup, since it means you pave less of your lot and have more room in back for landscaping etc.

Babs,

Sterling I (Washington–Bedford) was in the original proposed historic district, as outlined by the LPC c. 1975, but was left out (rather inexplicably IMO). Its a very nice block and VERY quiet, because it ends at Washington, rather than Flatbush. Relatively few people drive down it to go anyplace else. It has houses like this HOTD on the north side, two story brownstone/limestone houses on the south and lots of huge trees.