Open House Picks: 10/30/09
Park Slope 440A 6th Street Warren Lewis Sunday 1-3 $1,900,00 GMAP P*Shark Bedford Stuyvesant 53 Monroe Street Corcoran Sunday 2-3:30 $1,275,000 >GMAP P*Shark Crown Heights 1253 Carroll Street Kathryn Lilly (solo?!) Sunday 2-4 $750,000 GMAP P*Shark Greenwood Heights 342 20th Street Brown Harris Stevens Sunday 2:30-4 $699,000 GMAP P*Shark

Park Slope
440A 6th Street
Warren Lewis
Sunday 1-3
$1,900,00
GMAP P*Shark
Bedford Stuyvesant
53 Monroe Street
Corcoran
Sunday 2-3:30
$1,275,000
>GMAP P*Shark
Crown Heights
1253 Carroll Street
Kathryn Lilly (solo?!)
Sunday 2-4
$750,000
GMAP P*Shark
Greenwood Heights
342 20th Street
Brown Harris Stevens
Sunday 2:30-4
$699,000
GMAP P*Shark
I came I saw I rented:
Thanks for the Park Slope school scoop.
I think for those of us with elementary school kids, the north-central-south slope dividers have a lot to do with school zones. North Slope is north of Union – PS 282. 282 may have its fans, but the rich people in North Slope send their kids to private school, or lie to get into PS 321. I would venture to bet that less than 10%, maybe even less than 5% of brownstone owners in the North Slope send their kids to 282. What separates 282 from 321 is that wealthy people send their kids to 321 and actively raise money for the school. 282 is good because of active parents and a strong principal, but it does not have 321’s unique financial resources of its student families.
PS 321 goes from President to the north side of 5th Street, so that 6th Street house is actually in PS 39 district. 39 is a tiny school, and it contains a few blocks south of 9th Street, but again, I think it’s generally considered center slope.
PS 107 and PS 10 are South Slope, which is south of 9th Street. All these schools have strong communities and PTA’s, but until someone decides to really put the hammer down on deceitful enrollment, PS 321 will always have an upper hand, and for families who won’t lie and who rely on public school education, center slope will always be superior to north slope for homes.
“That Crown Heights house is not in need of upgrading, it has the original kitchen and baths. Snap it up!” (mopar)
I LOVE that they show the kitchen. (Is there even a stove in there?)
“Maybe they think it needs an electrical rewiring, but if it dates from the 1920s or later, it could be fine.” (mopar)
Really? Wiring from the 1920s? Not a big plugger inner, are you?
My mom’s house, the house I grew up in, had the original 1919 wiring when she bought it. You really couldn’t do too much at-the-same-time plugging in of anything. Plus the whatever (rubber?) that was coating the wires was all dry and cracked up.
dandel,
It was only my relatives, friends, and co-workers who thought I was crazy back in the day; I knew better 🙂
Hey Bob Marvin,
Is that you? Not so crazy now to be buying a brownstone in 2008, is it? you old fool!
I look forward to combing through the Slope again this weekend. I remember almost all the blocks between PPW and 8th to be magnificant (and, unfortunately, way out out of my price range). But I will enjoy checking it out again.
And I will take note of the car traffic (I don’t like too much car traffic), which I remember to be greater in the north slope. (Although weekend traffic is not necessarily indicative of weekday traffic, it will give me some sense of it.)
I’ll pay particular attention to the grandeur of Carrol and Montgomery.
Pigeon,
After your walk on Carroll Street walk down the one block of Montgomery Place, from PPW to 8th Avenue–it’s even grander.
when i was looking to buy in park slope and was only considering center slope, i thought it basically between union or a bit north and N. 3rd. the 321 district. i wanted access to the most stores and restaurants on 7th and 5th, and i also only looked on the western portion because i wanted to be able to quickly walk to smith street which to me meant near carroll or union. i sometimes walked to the carroll street f train even – i walk very fast…
one reason i made so money selling was because i was zoned for 321 even if i didn’t care about it – agree with 11217, that it’s got built in hype for the outsiders, but not necessarily better than other options if you do your research.
But much less of a distinction than in the 1970’s, of course.