Open House Picks
Park Slope 377 Third Street Brown Harris Stevens Sunday 12:30-2 $2,399,000 GMAP P*Shark Cobble Hill 11 Warren Place Prudential Douglas Elliman Sunday 4-5 $1,275,000 GMAP P*Shark Bedford Stuyvesant 720 Marcy Avenue Nat Rambod Sunday 1-3 $999,000 GMAP P*Shark West Midwood 777 Rugby Road Mary Kay Gallagher Sunday 1-3 $950,000 GMAP P*Shark
Park Slope
377 Third Street
Brown Harris Stevens
Sunday 12:30-2
$2,399,000
GMAP P*Shark
Cobble Hill
11 Warren Place
Prudential Douglas Elliman
Sunday 4-5
$1,275,000
GMAP P*Shark
Bedford Stuyvesant
720 Marcy Avenue
Nat Rambod
Sunday 1-3
$999,000
GMAP P*Shark
West Midwood
777 Rugby Road
Mary Kay Gallagher
Sunday 1-3
$950,000
GMAP P*Shark
Address is 92 Prospect Place. I think the seller bought it a very long time ago for nothing. Its definitely NOT a flip.
Oh, by the way, I walked by the Rugby Road house earlier today and it’s quite a looker from the outside. I’m really curious to know what the interior is like. I’m much rather blow almost a mil on a big place like that than on some matchbox in PS!
Feelingdesperate, I guess I’m on the other end of the spectrum. I moved to Ditmas from Park Slope and prefer it here. There are fewer amenities here, it’s true, but I don’t understand why you have to drive everywhere. The Q is practically at my doorstep and the F is a short walk away. Much, much easier than driving! In any case, I hope it begins to grow on you…I’m really happy in Ditmas.
I live in Ditmas Park, and am not totally crazy about it. I find it has the disadvantages of the suburbs (no restaurants, cafes, activity in the streets, you have to drive everywhere), with few of the advantages (it’s not peaceful, or quiet, or clean, the schools aren’t great and there is city crime). I have a pretty porch and garden, but don’t enjoy it due to the noise of the subway and traffic, boombox cars etc.
The houses are gorgeous, but maintenance is not cheap. My oil heating bill was about $800/month this winter.
I don’t feel particularly close to Prospect Park, I still have to load my kids into the car to get there. And I don’t find the neighbors particularly chummy either, I guess I just haven’t had the good fortune to find the welcoming crowd.
Those are the disadvantages, imo, to living in Ditmas Park. It’s so physically pretty (especially now in the spring), and most residents love it — but it’s not for everybody.
The Rugby Road listing is not in MIDWOOD. West Midwood, South Midwood (Brooklyn College), and Midwood Park are part of Victorian Flatbush. Midwood is an entirely different world. Even though these neighborhoods are just south of Ditmas Park (if you take that group of streets as the central hub of Vic. Flatbush), they have very little in common with Midwood proper (with the possible exception of Manhattan Terrace – the northern tip of Midwood that abuts Avenue H – it was originally conceived as part of the greater Flatbush Victorian Housing boom).
“I own the house next door. Would love to see a brownstone fan buy it and TLC it up right.”
Can you be more specific about the number on prospect place? I want to shark it.
I think one has to copy this link and paste into a browser.
http://ritaknox.com/Template18/NextPage.asp?OrderId=130&SuppId=
249101&LanguageId=0&FileName=featurelist/listings.asp
Its asking $2.1mm. Title is “Best of Both Worlds”
anon 4:58pm, which listing?
(price? / title of listing?)
Their site does not allow for providing direct links (at least not easily).
Best way from Ditmas to Manhattan:
I take Ocean to the Prospect Expressway to the battery tunnel you’re there in 10 minutes (no exaggeration if you have ez pass) but you have to pay the 4.50 toll but its always worth it…