Open House Picks
Park Slope 511 Fourth Street Corcoran Sunday 2:30-4:30pm $2,600,000 GMAP P*Shark Park Slope 609 6th Street Brown Harris Stevens Sunday 12-2pm $2,395,000 GMAP P*Shark Park Slope 380 Sixth Avenue Aguayo & Huebener Sunday 12-2pm $1,795,000 GMAP P*Shark Prospect Lefferts 26 Midwood Street Brown Harris Stevens Sunday 12:30-2:30pm $1,225,000 GMAP P*Shark Windsor Terrace 194 Ocean Parkway…
Park Slope
511 Fourth Street
Corcoran
Sunday 2:30-4:30pm
$2,600,000
GMAP P*Shark
Park Slope
609 6th Street
Brown Harris Stevens
Sunday 12-2pm
$2,395,000
GMAP P*Shark
Park Slope
380 Sixth Avenue
Aguayo & Huebener
Sunday 12-2pm
$1,795,000
GMAP P*Shark
Prospect Lefferts
26 Midwood Street
Brown Harris Stevens
Sunday 12:30-2:30pm
$1,225,000
GMAP P*Shark
Windsor Terrace
194 Ocean Parkway
Sommers Real Estate
Sunday 12-2pm
$1,200,000
GMAP P*Shark
Williamsburg
362 Union Avenue
Sotheby’s Int’l
Sunday 1-3pm
$975,000
GMAP P*Shark
My brother is a police detective and I just had breakfast with him and his wife. He said you should not rely too heavily on statistics measuring reported crime. More crime goes unreported in tougher neighborhoods, and so they can appear much safer than they actually are if you only look at stats. When I asked him about Lefferts, he suggested that we think in terms of the amount of caution one should exercise when in particular neighborhoods. Suppose we think of it on a scale of 1 to 10. If relatively safe Park Slope is a 1 on this scale and Brownsville is a 10, my brother suggested that Lefferts would be a 4 or a 5. So, not too surprisingly, the truth appears to fall somewhere in between the two extreme points of view dominating this board. Assuming of course that my brother knows what he\’s talking about…and he does.
Uh…does anyone have any thoughts on the actual houses that Brownstoner posed?
Move to Bay Ridge. It takes me 45 minutes door-to-door to Union Square and you could still get beautiful limestone and brownstone homes (built between 1899 and 1910) for well under a million. All that and more stores and restaurants than you know what to do with. And for those who care about these things as indicators: 2 Starbucks, 1 New York Sports Club & Fresh Direct delivers 🙂
Lefferts—I don’t know the crime stats but I do know that the retail is the pits and everyone seems to walk straight of their house and into their car. With the exception of the Dining Room, that Midwood house looks like it’s been stripped to the bone. As far as that ceiling medallion, I doubt it is original and even if is, new ceiling medallions can be had for anywhere from $100-$500 depending on size. Hardly a detail worth noting.
Yes, I agree. Go to Lefferts and check it out. But be sure to go on a warm spring/summer night when everyone is hanging out and playing music. It’ll be safer with the crowds–and will give you a good sense of the area. There is a reason houses in Lefferts only go on the market in the Winter–its cold and the “undesireables” stay indoors.
Why can we not we agree to this much: Go and see for yourself. Several people have suggested going to Lefferts to check it out first hand. However, for some reason, this suggestion just seems to get dismissed out of hand. Let us agree that people should visit Lefferts personally. That way we can end this ridiculous and embarrassing discussion. I pity Mr. Brownstoner for having to run a board that dives so deeply into the shit.
I have no stake in this whatsoever. However, the figures presented here:
http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/html/pct/cspdf.html
seem at odds with what you are saying. This would not make me want to live in Lefferts.
It is disturbing that a neighborhood that is not much different than many other nabes that are often discussed here gets such a strong negative reaction. Having lived in the Upper West Side of Manhattan and in Lefferts Manor I know that I saw and experienced more crime in the UWS. Predators are common in wealthy areas – that’s where the money is.
As for the market prices of PLG, there are a good sample available now and these will tell the tale. I believe that those in the market for a fine townhouse/brownstone would be amiss if they accepted the scare mongering so common on this site and never looked for themselves.
I point to Sunset Park (nice ‘living in’ piece in todays Times) as an example of a nabe that had a bad rep (deservedly so?) some years back, but is now a good place to live and a good place to seek a house under a mill. This nabe has proved itself beyond its rep.
Check it out for yourself, do the research, talk to people who live there, this site has some clearly biased voices.
O.K., here are your stats. According to the NY Times crime index, Park Slope is given 127, and Lefferts gets an 85. The higher the number, the more crime. Brooklyn as a whole gets 155.