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
I lived in Fort Greene in the late 1980’s and was almost killed by stoning. People sat on their stoops smoking crack all night long. You are romanticizing the nabe. It has improved since then, as Lefferts Manor has and will continue to do.
The house in question is on Midwood St. in the Manor. The asking prices are set as a result of what other homes in the nabe are selling for. Period.
Sorry, Anons 9:34 and 9:49, I’m not trying to scare anyone away from anything here, I’m just amazed at these totally unjustified prices.
I lived in Fort Greene from 1991 – 1995 (kept the apartment until 1999, but moved overseas) when it was a supposedly much rougher neighborhood, and I never saw the open commerce of drugs like I do daily on my walk to and from the subway at Sterling and Nostrand (although syringes were plentiful in Fort Greene Park). The cops just busted two supposed crack gangs at Sterling and Nostrand a few weeks ago, but they seem to have re-opened. Do you witness daily drug transactions in Park Slope/Clinton Hill/Fort Greene? Where?
And I really doubt that my comments here would have any effect on anyone’s decision to buy or not in PLG, or on prices — but thank you for the thought! And, yes, if I were to spend that amount of money I’d definitely prefer Clinton Hill because of its restauruants, the ease of access to Fort Greene, BAM, etc., the beauty of its blocks (apart from the historic district things in PLG are pretty sad looking), and its (relative) proximity to Manhattan, although I don’t love the C train. You get so much more for the same amount of money — and those limestone townhouses are tiny — the English basement is not at all as light-filled and spacious as a brownstone’s garden level and there are only two floors above that.
Actually I’d prefer now to buy in Stuyvesant Heights — there’s a lot more going on in that area, with a vibrant and committed community backing things up. Lewis Avenues shops are great — places like Bread Stuy, Lewis and Ruby’s, Brownstone Books, The Parlor Floor, not to mention the Down South Cafe, my all-time favorite breakfast place. And the A train puts you on Fulton St in Manhatan in 11 minutes (I’ve timed it). And prices there are lower than this!
So I obviously can’t be trying to hold prices down or scare people away, since if I were buying today it wouldn’t be in PLG (not at these prices) — I’m just sharing my incredulousness at the lack of justification for asking this amount.
There is easy access to crack in Park Slope, Fort Greene, and most certainly Clinton Hill. Everyone I have met who lives in Lefferts Manor loves the neighborhood. I wonder if it could be possible that certain negative posts are driven by a someone’s desire to hold prices down in the nabe until they are able to purchase?
anon 8:17- your sour grapes about being priced out of the nabe is a poor excuse for trying to scare people away from PLG. Your responses here do not work toward the betterment of anything.
Be serious, anon 7:53! I RENT in PLG, and the way things are going with prices like these I’ll never be able to buy here. I just can’t imagine that people would plunk down over $1 million dollars to live here!
When I rented my apartment I knew exactly what I was getting into, and didn’t “expect” anything else, although I do hope and pray every day that decent businesses will open in the area, because I’m tired of Popeye’s chicken 3 nights out of five (all that’s open when I get home from work, apart from the scary crack den chicken place on Nostrand and Sterling), and of having to buy my groceries in Manhattan and lug them home on the train because everything here closes at 7 (except the equally scary (and smelly) Western Beef on Empire Boulevard). Thank god for Fresh Direct — if they didn’t deliver I would never have moved here in the first place.
And I am and do actively work towards this neighborhood’s betterment, via membership in my block association (the only non-owner to ever even express an interest in joining), and it disgusts me to see all these real estate brokers foisting these prices on Park Slope yuppie types with too much money and too little brains because the very people who do work to make this neighborhood better will be priced out as they snap up these “bargains” compared to PS prices.
I would love to buy here someday, but at a reasonable and affordable price, and it just seems that prices here are way ahead of the neighborhood’s improvement. I live on a block in the historic district, but not Lefferts Manor, and houses there are already selling for near $600K. It’s just frustrating to see that the eventual fruits (in a small part) of my labor will be enjoyed by a bunch of rich types who never worked for anything here while I will be eventually forced out by rising prices (my lease is up in February and I probably won’t be able to afford the new rent).
Anon 7:28: So you regret your PLG purchase and now you can’t believe you did such a thing. After all, you had “hoped” and “expected” that the neighborhood would be something different than what you got. Get over it! Or at least get off these posts with your whining about your poor decision. Better yet, MOVE and sell your home (certainly not for 1.4M!) to someone who will come to the neighborhood and work towards its betterment.
Not even several years of dinner parties is worth $1.4 milion. And as for a family neighborhodd, sure, if you want your family to have easy access to crack, just hang out on the corner of Nostrand and Sterling for a while…
No dinner party is worth $1.4 million.
What Lefferts Manor lacks in amenities it makes up for in their incredible dinner party circuit! This is a true family neighborhood!