Open House Picks
Cobble Hill 26 Bergen Street Prudential Douglas Elliman Sunday 2-4 $2,375,000 GMAP P*Shark Boerum Hill 123 Nevins Street Nancy Mckiernan Sunday 2-4 $1,399,000 GMAP P*Shark Crown Heights 1211 Dean Street Yvette Braham Saturday 1-3 $899,999 GMAP P*Shark Bushwick 369 Menahan Street Corcoran Sunday 11-2 $549,000 GMAP P*Shark Prospect Lefferts 237 Empire Boulevard Alexis Finigan Sunday…
Cobble Hill
26 Bergen Street
Prudential Douglas Elliman
Sunday 2-4
$2,375,000
GMAP P*Shark
Boerum Hill
123 Nevins Street
Nancy Mckiernan
Sunday 2-4
$1,399,000
GMAP P*Shark
Crown Heights
1211 Dean Street
Yvette Braham
Saturday 1-3
$899,999
GMAP P*Shark
Bushwick
369 Menahan Street
Corcoran
Sunday 11-2
$549,000
GMAP P*Shark
Prospect Lefferts
237 Empire Boulevard
Alexis Finigan
Sunday 11-2
$525,000
GMAP P*Shark
Ok, the troll is back. You won’t be hearing from me for a while. Comment at
4:39 is me, apology at 6:23 is not. I’m not going to play this time.
I was born and brought up in Crown Height, went to Wingate and JHS 61 on Empire Blvd. My mother continued to live in my childhood house there until her deaths 3 years ago. I consider myself quite familiar with CH, and know first hand that CH remains difficult at best. By the way, the house on Empire Blvd is of course in CH,and the good news is it is 3 blocks from the 81 Pct. There is still a lot of palpable tension there. I would like to make Ch as pretty as some of the houses, but that would be totally untruthful.
Everyone, please note that I did not make the post that appeared at 4:39pm, despite the fact that someone attached my name to it. It was not me.
Richard Mills is the biggest boob ever produced by the educational establishment…however I happen to agree with him just this once that PS 38 is a really nice school on the rise!
The Nevins street property does seem under-priced for the neighborhood. Rumor has it another listing halfway down the block on Dean is coming onto the market for $2.2 million. We’ve lived in the neighborhood for 14 years, and before that in Cobble Hill, and I certainly would not say that sirens blare down the street “once a night” headed for the projects! The Bergen Street house is far more expensive for a less desirable block! Another bright side to Nevins is proximity to PS 38 – great new playground, houses one of three gifted programs in District 15, soon to host an after-school French program serving students from several local public schools, and just hailed by Richard Mills as one of the top 75 most improved schools in NY State.
OK, 9:15, if you’re going to make a blanket, inflammatory statement like that, I’d like to see backup. Do you have police stats at least, or any kind of evidence? The house is within shouting distance of the precinct house, on several bus lines, and on a very well travelled street. Noisy, I’ll buy. Busy, sure. Dangerous – why?
Thanks Babs, for writing “And Bob said he doesn’t know the official classification — and if Bob doesn’t know something, than I’m prepared to say it can’t be determined!” VERY flattering! Actually, I don’t know if there’s an OFFICIAL designation for many neighborhood boundaries. The PLG name and boundaries were AFAIK made up when PLGNA was founded in 1968. I believe the boundaries only went south to Winthrop at first, but were changed to Clarkson before I moved here in ’74. The western boundary was originally Flatbush, but IIRC was extended to Ocean about 30 years ago. Of course Lefferts Manor and the PLG Historic District have discrete “official”boundaries, but they’re far from being the whole neighborhood.
The place on Empire Blvd looks nice, I think, but I’d definitely think twice about living in that neighborhood. Very dangerous!
Hey, Nativegal, no biggie — all I said was I don’t see really a demographic difference between the north and south sides of Empire Blvd. regardless of the neighborhood boundaries. Whatever neighborhood the house is officially in, it’s closer to all the stuff in PLG than to Crown Heights places like Brower Park and the Children’s Museum, etc. I never even mentioned what neighborhood it was in, I only said that I like this block better than the one across the street. And Bob said he doesn’t know the official classification — and if Bob doesn’t know something, than I’m prepared to say it can’t be determined! Anybody check out the school zoning here — zoned for the Crown School could be a plus.