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
Who cares if people did without in Fort Greene ten years ago. Prices have skyrocketed there in conjunction with the gentrification of the neighborhood and arrival of amenities. The issue with PLG is PLG residents seem offended at the idea that people are critical of Fort Greene/Clinton Hill prices in an area that has not seen an influx of amenities. You are paying “gentrified” prices for an “ungetrified” neighborhood – at least with respect to the Midwood listing. Nothing mind boggling or controversial about that. If you bought in PLG five years ago, it was probably a good deal, but at the asking prices being seen now, without the neighborhood amenities catching up, the “deal” is more elusive.
Yep, I lived on Adelphi and Greene for 11 years and worked at the Law Office after graduating from Law School between the barber shop and Greene Farms. We were so happy when Greene Farms opened. We saw a few restaurants try – including the Internet Cafe (owned by Alice Walker’s daughter). But nothing really took hold until the very recent past. I mosly lugged my food stuff home from Manhattan and always went out to eat in Manhattan or ate at home. So, I guess our point is that those of us who have lived in the “BK” for decades outside of Park Slope and Bklyn Heights have always done without “amenities” and survived – which is probably why many of us cannot understand the obsession with having Manhattan living at your fingertips. It’s great, but it just has never been a part of the life of the average Brooklynite.
No, sorry to disagree, I know Kyeong Soo, and while she is very nice, she is not the owner of the Greene Farms deli (she was maybe 4 years old when it opened!).
The actual owner is what Corcoran calls a “virtual” agent — she works from home and isn’t really affiliated with any particular office. I don’t remember her name, but I have met her…
And she’s really nice, too!
Indeed.
would that be kyeong soo kim?
Exactly, anon 5:22 — when I moved to Fort Greene in 1991 there were two restaurants that took turns going in and out of business, the Greene Farms deli (my salvation), the bodega next door, and that’s about it. The closest grocery store was the Associated on Waverly, which specialised at the time in goat meat — very interesting, but I had no idea what to do with it!
For liquor stores there was the one on Lafayette by BAM — nice selection, but a somewhat scary walk, or the site of the the current snazzy resto of the same name, which at the time was populated by an old man, his extremely smelly dog, two bottles of wine and one of bourbon.
And you know what — I rented a garden/parlor floor duplex, plus the basement with washer-dryer, for $1350 a month, and brownstones sold for $350 – $400K. That made more sense.
So I’ve lived in all over 20 years in Brooklyn, and am so used to doing without — but not used to paying like I’m not. Asking gentrified prices for an ungentrified neighborhood is insane.
And BTW, the owner of the Greene Farms deli also owns the sushi restaurant on Lafayette and is opening a high-end nail salon. She and her husband now own about 4 brownstones in the area and she is now a very successful Corcoran agent…
Nativegal – I feel your pain. I own in a neighborhood that is also constantly “dogged” on this site, however, I am reasonable and acknowledge that no one should be paying over $1 million to live in my neighborhood (BedStuy) either.
However, as a former FG condo owner – many of the amenities that everyone now raves about did not exist there either 4 years ago when I sold. There were very few trendy restaurants, coffee shops, etc. For years we had a nasty associated and bodegas (the corner stores – not the restaurant) – until the Atlantic Center opened up – Maybe that’s the difference between those of us who have lived in Bklyn for decades and those of you who are new to the borough, we are so used to the lack of amenities that we have adapted well. So please all the FG and CH residents – stop pretending as if these neighborhoods have been around in their current states for decades. – In case some of you did not realize this, they’ve come a long way. Maybe some of the other neighborhoods will do so also.
Hmm, a 10-block walk to PH/PS? Let’s see — assuming I start at Lincoln and Bedford. Walking north for 10 blocks will put me at Bedford and Union — I believe that’s Crown Heights — it’s still south of Eastern Parkway. Last I checked (like yesterday), there were’t too many restaurants there, either.
Don’t see any way you could get to Park Slope in ten blocks — and I wouldn’t recommend a midnight stroll across the Park to get home! Maybe a ride on the Q train to Seventh Ave. — just don’t try it on weekends, because there has been no Q service between Parkside and Atlantic Aves for the past two weeks. Not to mention the eternal schedule rearrangements on the 2, 3, 4 lines — after a summer of no 4 service in Brooklyn at all, we’re now doing the no 2 or 3 service dance on weekends…