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
Gardens gal, First of all, which anonymous poster are you talking to? I’m the one who posted at 1:01, and you can’t know me because I have no idea who you are. If you’re threatening and insulting the poor poster (and your neighbor) who was victimized in his/her own home, well that is disgusting. No wonder she/he wants to be anonymous.
The purpose of these posts is to debate specific properties and their asking prices. To say that a house is well priced because someone is willing to pay that price is truly the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard.
It is clear to me that whatever benefits there may be to lefferts manor, they are certainly outweighed by having to live near narrow minded, aggressive, paranoid, and militant people like you.
Anon 12:53,
Sorry to hear of your break-in. Fact is, however, that burglaries occur in every neighborhood of the city every day . . . not just in PLG. I believe that all crime is serious, including crimes that occur in zip code 11225. I also believe — based on my direct and personal experience of nearly 2 decades of living here — that much of the discussion about crime in PLG is overstated on these threads. House burglaries notwithstanding, PLG is not the wild, wild west.
Anon 1:01:
I read the posts about PLG very carefully and I know exactly what I’m reading. On other threads about PLG, purchasers of homes here have been explicity described as “stupid” for having made such a purchase or for thinking about doing so. So, let’s not try and split hairs about the insult. It’s really rather unnecessary.
And, who determines whether the prices being asked for a particular property are worth it, anyway? You think its the active posters of the Brownstoner.com community? Now there’s a stupid thought! No, my friend, that’s a market determination. If the asking price is wrong, the house won’t sell. Presumably, if the seller wants out bad enough, s/he will then make a price correction. However, if the price is right in some buyer’s eyes, well. . . there will be a sale! Get it? My question is why do people like you seem to get your bloomers all in a twist just because some folk choose to live in PLG at the prices that are being asked in today’s market? If it’s not your money, what do you care?
As for what I paid to live here. . . it’s truly none of your business. But, if you must know. . I bought my house here for more than $200k nearly 20 years ago. And I don’t think it was a stupid purchase. Indeed, given the way things are going in PLG, I think that buy was a smart one. So there!
BTW, I’m pretty sure who you are as the author of this “anonymous post.” (After hanging around these parts long enough, one tends to recognize familiar writing styles,phraseology and themes of the consistent players.) But, hey, your true identity is only a suspicion and you’re safe! Still, I wonder. How come you lack the courage to put your blogname up on this one and take some “ownership” of your stupid statements?
Gardens Gal, if you actually read the posts you would see that people are saying that it is “stupid” to pay 1.2 million to live in lefferts. You probably paid less than 200,000. This discussion isn’t about if the area is liveable, it is about if the area is worth the prices being asked. So, please, get a grip yourself.
I too was desperately trying to not respond, bu now I have to. I live in Lefferts Manor and my house was broken into while I was home with my 4 year old. I came face to face with the intruder. It was the single most horrifying experrienc eof my life.
I hate to share that on this blog since I want prices to increase. I am desperate to leave the area, but since prices have not increased here nearly as much as they have everywhere else, there is nohwere we can afford to go.
The area has its benefis, but please do not insult us all b pretending that crime is not a serious problem.
Sorry. The previous post at 12:43 p.m. is mine.
Damn. Just when I thought I would be able to sit this one out, I find myself drawn back in!
I wish all you PLG haters with your baseless whining about violent crime in my nabe would get a grip. If you are going to make these kinds of inflammatory claims, at least provide us with truthful detail about what violent crime YOU have actually experienced in PLG. You probably won’t be able to do that because, truth is, you’ve never actually seen or experienced any crime in Prospect Lefferts Garden/Manor.
Who among the crime dramatists on this thread have supported any of their claims with fact? None! Indeed, the strongest allegation I’ve seen about “crime” in PLG so far on this blog was a recent post recently submitted by a friend of a resident (not the resident themselves, mind you) who complained about being verbally harassed by Black youths on a street corner. Give me a break! That kind of behavior may be upsetting and intimidating but IT IS NOT A CRIME.
As someone who has lived here for 2 decades, safely raised a family here and now safely walk the streets here any time of night or day that I please, I can tell you that I have never witnessed a violent crime in PLG. What I have seen are groups of young Black people who hang out on certain corners and major intersections of Flatbush and Nostrand. (I know for some of you the mere presence of young Black men in groups is enough for you to immediately fear for your lives. But sorry, group presence is not a crime.)
Yes, I’m loathe to admit that, at times, I have my own suspicions that some of these groups of young men are likely involved in the drug trade. But again — that is merely my suspicion. These young men have certainly never approached me to buy drugs from them and I have NEVER actually witnessed a drug deal go down in PLG. Nor have I have ever witnessed a mugging, shoot-out, drive-by, arson, rape, or any kind of violent crime that some of you folk are imagining to be the order of the day around here.
Does crime exist in PLG? Of course it does! I know this because there’s a precinct here and they issue reports about the crime rate all the time. I also know it because PLG has a neighborhood watch group that keeps tabs on reports of criminal incidents and arrests. However, as other, more level-headed folks on this blog have pointed out, crime exists in EVERY neighborhood. And, the bottom line of it is that the rate of crime in PLG –especially violent crime — does not place this area anywhere close to making the short list of most “unsafe” neighborhoods in Brooklyn.
If you don’t want to live in PLG, no problem. Don’t buy here. But please stop suggesting that people who make the choice to live here are “stupid” for having done so. At least please have the integrity to stop using exaggerated arguments about crime in PLG as code and subtext to cover other prejudices you have that you would rather not openly discuss.
Get a grip.
I lived in PS 10 years ago, and while it had its drawbacks it was in nowhere near the poor condition that Lefferts is in today. It\’s just not a good comparison–not when it comes to violent crime, anyway.
Exageratting about prices of coops in PS? I’m sorry but your post proved my point.
Sure you can find a 2 BR coop for $599k, it is definitely a shoebox, has only one bath and is probaby a 4th Fl walk up. There was one on 3rd St. b/w 6th and 7th for $649 a couple of weeks ago, it was 900 sf maybe. I don’t think there is much room for argument.
As for the house, here it is on craigslist:
http://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/rfs/129132082.html
Listen I don’t think Lefferts is for everybody, just like I don’t think PS was for everybody 10 years. I think if you look at the crime stats from 10 years ago in PS and today in Lefferts you’d be surprise at how similar they were. Crime has fallen tremendously throughout the city. And if you think there is no crime in Park Slope, just read the blotter in one of the local papers. Plenty of people getting mugged, robbed and burgulared.
I do agree that PS had better commercial mix 10 years ago, no doubt about it. But is a huge neighborhood, 5th Ave. was no mans land and 4th Ave., only went there if you had to. But that is changing in Lefferts like the other poster mentioned.
Would love to know where the Nostrand Ave. cafe is opening up, please email me offline.