Open House Picks
Park Slope 360 4th Street Warren Lewis Sunday 2:30-4:30pm $1,980,000 GMAP Prospect Lefferts 30 Midwood Street Brown Harris Stevens Sunday 2-4pm $1,495,000 GMAP Crown Heights 179 Kingston Avenue Corcoran Sunday 2-4pm $899,000 GMAP Crown Heights 1160 Sterling Place Outreach Real Estate Saturday 2-4pm $749,000 GMAP
Park Slope
360 4th Street
Warren Lewis
Sunday 2:30-4:30pm
$1,980,000
GMAP
Prospect Lefferts
30 Midwood Street
Brown Harris Stevens
Sunday 2-4pm
$1,495,000
GMAP
Crown Heights
179 Kingston Avenue
Corcoran
Sunday 2-4pm
$899,000
GMAP
Crown Heights
1160 Sterling Place
Outreach Real Estate
Saturday 2-4pm
$749,000
GMAP
It is if you need to get to Manhattan, but you sound like a thoroughly stay-at-home mom. How nice for you. Not all of us have that luxury and so must leave the neighborhood to work for a living — even on weekends, and the MTA hasn’t been too co-operative there lately.
And shopping at Target (or anywhere in Ratnerville) is truly more like living in
the ‘burbs than anything. I get the shakes just going into that place!
Posted by: Anonymous at October 18, 2005 09:59 AM
Are you always so wrong about things, no wonder you sound so miserable. No I’m not a SAHM. I work a 40hr/wk, blue collar job in Manhattan. I’ve got my union card to prove it(I suppose now you’ll go on a rant about unions. Sign…)
Well, the Midwood St listing om BHS’s website is unchanged — so I guess no accepted offer this weekend. Did anybody go to the open house? How was it? Turnout?
“Playgrounds-
1-right at the Lincoln Rd entrance to Prospect Park
2-Imagination Playground on Ocean Ave btwn Lincoln & Parkside.
3-MS 61, on Sterling St btwn Nostrand & NY Aves
4-Dodger Playground on Sullivan St. Good for a quick stop between Rite-Aid & Associates when we’re out running errands.”
Maybe you feel comfortable going to these areas, but they scare me (ditto the Western Beef parking lot or anywhere on Empire Blvd at night). And the first time I was ever on Sullivan Street was lat week when the B44 bus I was on was detoured because Nostrand Ave was closed off following the (still unexplained) broad daylight shooting that took place there last week…
Not to mention the inevitab;e violence that alsways occurs at Carnival — this year two people were shot in front of the Clean Rite laundry where I do my wash.
“There are inconsiderate people in every neighborhood.”
Yes, but there seem to be more of them here! (actually I suspect it’s one or two individuals, as I’ve reported the same car — a light blue something or other — several times!)
Tavern on Nostrand is a nice place. The food is good, the wine list is reasonable, and the service is friendly. There’s serious live jazz on weekends. The main thing for us is that it’s a nice place to sit down for dinner. As far as I can tell at this moment, it’s the only place within walking distance for us (even though it’s six streets and one avenue away) that represents a comfortable sit down restaurant. We met the owner, and he also has the place directly across the street called “Bagels and High Tea”. He said he’s also planning a grocery market nearby because he’s tired of going to Park Slope to shop.
“The train not running on the weekends that’s not an issue since there are plenty of buses, including the B41 along Flatbush Ave. 2 stops on the limited puts me right in front of Target.”
It is if you need to get to Manhattan, but you sound like a thoroughly stay-at-home mom. How nice for you. Not all of us have that luxury and so must leave the neighborhood to work for a living — even on weekends, and the MTA hasn’t been too co-operative there lately.
And shopping at Target (or anywhere in Ratnerville) is truly more like living in the ‘burbs than anything. I get the shakes just going into that place!
How is the Tavern on Nostrand? I’ve noticed it going by on the B44 bus — it looked interesting.
I’d like to chime in here about amenities. My wife and I have been in Crown Heghts for three years now. There’s no pretending that our immediate area has the type of amenities being discussed here. On Saturday night we went out to the only place within walking distance where we like to have a sit down dinner (Tavern on Nostrand), but the place was packed and we couldn’t get a table. Well that’s a good sign for the restaurant, and for the area, but it left us walking home and stopping at Cheffies for jerk chicken and roti to go.
Nevertheless, there’s one amenity that means the most: We have a comfortable, spacious home on a friendly, quiet, community-oriented block where the kids play after school and into the evening, and the neighbors share tools, pot-luck dinners and garden plants.
We have a 30 minute commute on the 3 train to Manhattan, and thus have the world at our feet. Interesting that we moved here from Union Square (the building with the Children’s Place store on 16th street), with all the shopping and dining within a few blocks, but we’re not suffering. It all depends on what you need, and what quality of life means to each individual.
Would I mind having more convenient shopping and dining within a few blocks? Of course not. But we’re happy just the same.
Anony: I hear you. While YOU may not be digging against the nabe, that is clearly not the case with all posters in this discussion.
Again, I don’t have a problem with people raising eyebrows about the ASKING prices on a very small minority of homes in my neighborhood. But, what I’m still not understanding is the upset about the SELLING price. In most cases — as we are seeing from the NYT article that ran just last weekend — if a house is improperly priced, it ain’t gonna sell! However, if someone wants to purchase a splendid home in “the ghetto” badly enough to spend over $1M for it, and even if others would never consider such a move if they had the money, what difference does it make? Especially in this case, where the biggest griper(s) suggest that they would really prefer to live in other nabes anyway!
Like NativeGal, I seem to be missing the point of why all this energy is being given over to other people’s buying decisions.