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
“In terms of sheer beauty though, just take a walk up Carroll Street between 7th and the Park and I think you’ll see what I mean about the grandeur of some of the North Slope blocks…”
I will walk this walk this weekend.
Bob Marvin says: “There was (in the 1970’s) a distinction between “upper” and “lower” Park Slope, going west from Prospect Park.”
This is still true today, no?
Bob,
My older neighbors say the same thing and tell me stories about the bad old days in the North Slope.
I love hearing about it. To this day, my 90 year old neighbor still won’t go past 7th Avenue…she still thinks it’s dangerous. 🙂
Funny, when I lived in Park Slope, looooong ago [actually 1970–74], the North Slope meant the dangerous high crime blocks north of Berkeley Place. There was also a distinction between “upper” and “lower” Park Slope, going west from Prospect Park. Of course no middle class person would venture below 7th Avenue.
I didn’t care–I was proud enough to live there that I had address labels printed reading “Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY 111215”.
I hear it’s changed a bit 🙂
And you are right about the school zone…PS. 321 begins at Union, but I also hear great things about PS. 282. It’s more diverse than 321, but I consider that a good thing.
In terms of sheer beauty though, just take a walk up Carroll Street between 7th and the Park and I think you’ll see what I mean about the grandeur of some of the North Slope blocks…
I like all of the Slope, Pigeon. 🙂
In fact, I LOVE the South Slope…especially for the variety of retail on the lower section of 7th Avenue in the teens…
BUT, in terms of gorgeous, beautiful, magnificent architecture and brownstones, it doesn’t get any better than Carroll, Garfield, President, Berkeley, Lincoln, St. John’s, the Montauk Club on 8th Avenue and Lincoln and the mansion on the corner of 8th and Union, etc.
For me, the brownstones in the North Slope are far more beautiful and grand than those farther South, but as I said, there are BEAUTIES on all blocks of Park Slope, in my opinion. 8th Street is nice, 12th Street is nice, 3rd…the list goes on…
11217:
I think Miss Muffett agrees with you that South Slope is not as expensive as North Slope. But she personally doesn’t place a premium on North Slope (although others peoople do).
And I, too, see that the South Slope is the less expensive part of the slope, I just didn’t know that North Slope is, generally speaking, more expensive than Center Slope.
Although I’m not a slope expert, I think that much of Center Slope is nicer than North Slope. Plus, you have PS 321 in much of the Center Slope.
But, of course, it depends on the block.
Perhaps the nicest parts are the southern part of the North Slope and the northern part of the South Slope?
Got it, MM.
11217 – we may not disagree about the market placing a premium on north slope over center/south slope, but *I personally* don’t – that’s what I meant. I know some people hate the F, but it’s never bugged me, and if I can save a few grand living further from the express trains, that’s totally worth it to me.
Pigeon,
I guess some of the North Slope blocks closer to 5th and Flatbush have more car traffic, but the named street blocks between Flatbush and Garfield and from 6th or 7th Avenue to Prospect Park are the most “prime” in the neighborhood, in my opinion.
Prices would seem to reflect that as well.