Open House Wrap-Up: Mob Scene at 152 Dean?
We heard that the open house at 152 Dean (far left) attracted more than 50 people yesterday, certainly a bright spot among reports in recent weeks of lower foot traffic. Or maybe with the official start of Spring, the market is just preparing for its seasonal pick-up. Any other reports from the open house trenches?…
We heard that the open house at 152 Dean (far left) attracted more than 50 people yesterday, certainly a bright spot among reports in recent weeks of lower foot traffic. Or maybe with the official start of Spring, the market is just preparing for its seasonal pick-up. Any other reports from the open house trenches?
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Wasn’t the post saying that the Rutland house was 15 minutes from the Parkside station? It should be a 5 minute walk from the Prospect Park station, no?
why is there always a fight going on about Lefferts? can’t we all just get along?
Sorry, the last post was me.
Cat, no one here said that Lefferts Manor was a perfect nabe, we said that we like living here; we find that we are able to get food to cook in our own kitchens, and we are able to get takeout. These are the issues that you raised. If you are happy living in BH, find a house there. It is a fine nabe. But saying that the Rutland Road house is a 15 minute walk from the Prospect Park subway station is just plain wrong. It is also wrong to say that the nabe isn’t quiet, it is. VERY quiet! The minute you turn off Flatbush you feel the quiet. And our very first cool cafe has just opened on Lincoln Road. If you could just manage to get off at the right subway stop you would see it!
Fort Greene is pretty perfect.
And I’m sure my posting was pretty insulting to the people on my block, too. I’ll check to make sure my neighbors haven’t barricaded the door to prevent my return home.
And I’ve been living in Brooklyn since the mid-90s, my friend– sorry to wipe out your theory.
You can’t tell me, though, that PLG/LM are perfect neighborhoods. No one’s is– not fancy-schmancy Brooklyn Heights (BQE in your front yard?), not Park Slope (482 restaurants and 4 of them worth eating at… I’m kidding), not Red Hook (great to walk and discover, terrible if you look at the junkyard dogs the wrong way as I did… once), not Williamsburg (yeah! let’s live off our trust funds and pretend we’re broke poets!), not Carroll Gardens… okay, maybe Carroll Gardens…
Every place has got its issues. I happen to like living within spaces and places that have said issues. I don’t want to be lost in the ‘burbs or stuck in congested, overfed and choked Manhattan. I love Brooklyn and couldn’t imagine leaving. But I can’t walk 15 minutes from the *only* nearby train stop (unless I missed one?) at night– in a neighborhood that has much heavier car traffic than pedestrian– and feel that unsafe… and have paid $1.5 mil for a place that needs work! As I say, it’s just a matter of taste… and not mine.
I know that Lefferts is a real neighborhood– we walked through it all day yesterday and could tell that. Just because I didn’t feel at home shouldn’t mean a thing to those who feel right there. It’s just that we walked and walked and never found the things we have near us that make us feel happy– e.g., a semi-decent bistro or two, a coffee shop where we can sit for a while and read the paper (no, not a Starbucks!), a movie theater. My neighborhood didn’t always have these things, but it did have quiet– which it still does, somewhat… though Lefferts has less of that, I’d say.
So again, just my taste.
I didn’t feel insulted by the poster’s Lefferts comments, but what the poster seems to not get is that there are many options for food etc…, and I was simply offering up some of our methods of food buying. Most people in Brooklyn that I know have a car, and there are plenty of great shopping options within a few minutes of Lefferts. Moving to Scarsdale requires a car too, you know. We love our neighborhood, not just our house. Kids play outside, there are great dinner parties happening all the time, and the population that lives here In Lefferts Manor is creative and interesting. Nothing against the burbs, but we tried that route and came screaming back to the city! So I think I know better than most that there is a different style of living (and people) living here than you will find outside the city.
also what you dont get is that Lefferts is a real neighborhood with great neighbors. The Q or B train from Prospect Park is 20 minutes to midtown (takes me 35mins door to door Times Square). Lefferts is not “out there”. You must be a Manhattan transplant just getting used to the peoples republic of brooklyn. Your first post was pretty insulting to those in Lefferts
I use Urban Organic (urbanorganic.com), get it delivered every thursday in Willburg. You choose the type of produce you want in your box (they have several categories) and then they add other veggies and fruit that are especially in season. The stuff is delicious. fresh as greenmarket produce. I get the $35 a week box, which could easily feed a couple for a week.