Open House Picks
Clinton Hill 128 Clinton Avenue Aguayo & Huebener Sunday 1-3pm $2,100,000 GMAP Park Slope 771A Union Street Gail Morin Sunday 11-2pm $1,995,000 GMAP Boerum Hill 355 Warren Street Prudential Douglas Elliman Sunday 12-2pm $1,100,000 GMAP Bed Stuy West 300 Greene Avenue Corcoran Sunday 12-2pm $999,000 GMAP Crown Heights 1640 Union Street Corley Real Estate Sunday…
Clinton Hill
128 Clinton Avenue
Aguayo & Huebener
Sunday 1-3pm
$2,100,000
GMAP
Park Slope
771A Union Street
Gail Morin
Sunday 11-2pm
$1,995,000
GMAP
Boerum Hill
355 Warren Street
Prudential Douglas Elliman
Sunday 12-2pm
$1,100,000
GMAP
Bed Stuy West
300 Greene Avenue
Corcoran
Sunday 12-2pm
$999,000
GMAP
Crown Heights
1640 Union Street
Corley Real Estate
Sunday 1-4pm
$745,000
GMAP
Bed Stuy East
949 Greene Avenue
By Owner
Sunday 1-4pm
$695,000
GMAP
Clinton Hillbilly, no need for derogatory comments. Park Slope is a beautiful, and expensive, neighborhood. Bed Stuy is nice too but still has a way to go in terms of amenities, safety issues, and large parts of it are not close to the A or C train. And as far as being homogenous, Bed Stuy is pretty darn homogenous, just not all white. People need to take it easy. If you like your neighborhood, good. Let’s not bash each others hoods.
anon 4:03
Check out the Bed-Stuy house tour, you’ll see why people love the hood.
Did anyone notice the “crime index” in the NYTimes listings? Any idea where to get this data to compare neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Manhattan?
In addition to the illustrious G train, Clinton Hill and Fort Greene have the C and Bed-Stuy has the A and C. These are very convenient neighborhoods.
As for the felons…let’s hear it for the wonderful Rockefeller drug laws. YAY!
Restaurants and other services are being added at a very face pace as new people move in.
People pay 500K+ to get gorgeous brownstones with lots of detail in Bed-Stuy. As several other posters have noted, not everyone can afford to, or wants to, live in Park Slope.
I personally find Park Slope very boring and homogenous filled with aging hippies, a yuppie stroller brigade, lame stores and mediocre restaurants. But lots of people seem to like it and be willing to pay exorbitant prices to live there.
Maybe it’s Park Slope that’s overpriced.
Other than lower prices what does BedStuy have to offer that cannot be found elsewhere?
Let me clarify prematurely. If new purchasers refrain from paying over 500K for a BedStuy home and wait for the median income of the area to rise not as many people will be pushed out at an exacerbated rate.
Paying just under a million for a house in BedStuy now will push out lower income residents at higher rate than experienced in Park Slope decades ago. Park Slope prices gradually rose to a million, and gradually rose to two million. This gradual rise gave longer term residents the ability to compete for housing.
Bed Stuy West …. the seller is just trying to give people an idea of the location in the large neighborhood of Bed Stuy and highlight the fact that is it close to Clinton Hill. Can’t blame them, and there will be people priced out of Clinton Hill who will look to the edge of Bed Stuy, its just the natural progression of a gentrifying area. A big determinant of what will continue to gentrify in Bed Stuy will be access to subways. Areas closer to the A/C I think will fare better.
anon at 3:31:
“there are many, many people who do not have the luxury (literally) of deciding whether that extra MILLION is worth spending to live [in Park Slope]. These people have found other lovely homes and neighborhoods to live it (yes they do exist!).”
Precisely… and those people should be glad that there are people who would not live in their neighborhoods if you, literally, paid them $1 million. (Assuming that’s the price differential between these other nabes and Park Slope.) If those PS homeowners weren’t so finicky, they’d be using their money (or equity) to drive up the prices everywhere else to PS levels.
I actually think the Park Slope listing has some pretty ugly 80s decor for the price – check out the bathroom and kitchen. Glass bricks? Where’s Don Johnson? Kind of narrow too.