PLG Houses and Fort Greene Gardens On Sunday
This weekend is a great chance to immerse yourself in the glorious architecture of Prospect Lefferts Gardens. On Sunday from noon to 5 pm, the 36th Annual PLG House & Garden Tour will take place. Houses on display include a 1909 neo-Renaissance limestone, a 1922 Flemish bond brick and a fully restored 1899 townhouse. As…
This weekend is a great chance to immerse yourself in the glorious architecture of Prospect Lefferts Gardens. On Sunday from noon to 5 pm, the 36th Annual PLG House & Garden Tour will take place. Houses on display include a 1909 neo-Renaissance limestone, a 1922 Flemish bond brick and a fully restored 1899 townhouse. As a bonus, you’ll get a chance to check out an exhibition of Bob Marvin’s photography. Tix are $15 in advance and $20 day of. For more info call 718-462-0024 or 718-284-6210 or check out the link below.
In other tour news, the annual Brownstone Brooklyn Garden Tour will also take place on Sunday, from 11am to 5pm. This is a chance to see 15 private and 10 community gardens in Prospect Heights, Fort Greene and Clinton Hill. You can pick up tickets ahead of time for $15 and $20 on the day of. Tillie’s is at 248 Dekalb. 718-707-1277.
Annual House Tour [LeffertsManor.org]
PLG House Tour [NY Times]
Bob, with all due respect, I’ve lived in Brooklyn for 44 years and I’ve never experienced a divide like the one around Lefferts Manor before. Yes, I’ve been lucky enough to live in established areas, but I really don’t think that kind of divide is simply a part of urban life.
That divide is common in many brownstone areas–its a part of urban life IMO.
Thanks Bob, I appreciate the response. I didn’t mean to imply I felt in any danger on Flatbiush–I don’t. It’s just the sense of an intense social, cultural, and economic divide that makes me uncomfortable. But thanks again for your perspective.
While Flatbush Ave. is certainly NOT the most attractive of commercial streets, I’ve never felt I was in any danger there. However, I’m always struck by the sense of quiet I get when turning off of Flatbush onto the residential side streets. BTW, there are beautiful houses on the other (west) side of Flatbush as well, notably the Limestone houses on Ocean Ave., facing Prospect Park and Chester Court, a cul-de-sac across from Rutland Road, with Tudor row houses identical to those on Rutland. FWIW K-Dog and Dunebuggy is also off the “other” side of Flatbush and Papa and Sons, the large bodega on Flatbush and Lincoln has started to carry more upscale goods.
I enjoyed the tour a great deal and as always enjoyed strolling in the area. However, I have a “negative” comment that I’m sharing because I’d really like to get a resident’s perspective. Every time I visit PLG, the disconnect betweent the surrounding areas and the sidestreets srikes me as so instense as to make really uncomfortable. Crossing Flatbush makes me feel like I’m leaving the impovershid west bank and entering a wealthy settlement. OK, that anology probably offended everyone–sorry. But honestly, this is the reason I can’t imagine living there. Do residents’ feel that way, or is it just me?
Whoops, should have been “their”, not “there”. My English teacher mother would be horrified.
Re:tour – also enjoyed K Dog Cafe, it’s a great spot to relax.
I had a great time on the PLG tour too. The houses are great, and the people were so nice all around. As we were walking up and down the streets, everyone who had a white tour book in there hand smiled and nodded to anyone else with a book. A small nicety, but helped foster a real neighborhood atmosphere. Other neighborhood people were out chatting and talking to people too. The people certainly are the heart of the neighborhood. That can’t be staged.
My only complaint, and that’s too large a word for it, is that there wasn’t more architectural variety. With the exception of the first house, all of the others were basically the same 3 story brownstone architecture. I was hoping to tour a couple of the free standing Victorians, or one of the Tudors. I guess this wasn’t the year for it, and I’ll just have to come back next year, and hope one is on the tour.
GardensGal, was hoping to see you! Bob, your house is a gem!
Great slide show of the PLG tour on Dan’s Planet PLG blog–thank you Dan!
http://www.planetplg.com/tourslide.htm
Thanks for the info on 38 Rutland. Sold for 1.2M, from an original asking of 1.4M. That’s interesting.