Price Cuts at Lefferts South
Looks like revamping the marketing strategy for Lefferts South wasn’t enough to jumpstart sales at the condo. Streeteasy is showing price cuts between $20,000 and $44,000 on five of the Caton Avenue building’s remaining nine units. When the building first started selling last February, apartments were asking around $500 per foot—prices that seemed fairly high…
Looks like revamping the marketing strategy for Lefferts South wasn’t enough to jumpstart sales at the condo. Streeteasy is showing price cuts between $20,000 and $44,000 on five of the Caton Avenue building’s remaining nine units. When the building first started selling last February, apartments were asking around $500 per foot—prices that seemed fairly high for the neighborhood. Now that units are selling for slightly less—between $375,000 and $499,000—it’ll be interesting to see whether there’s more interest, and whether these prices impact what nearby developments like Caton Court are asking. Where’s the bottom on this baby?
Brokerage Switcheroo at PLG Condo Project [Brownstoner] GMAP
2233 Caton Avenue Listing [Prudential Douglas Elliman]
New Development: The Oddly-Named Lefferts South [Brownstoner]
6/3- 3:58p- Holy Cow!
You are the biggest complainer I have ever seen.
I think you are one of those people that goes to work every morning and spends half the day complaining about how rotten the world is to you.
At the end of your post I was expecting to hear that by the time you had gotten home to whatever hipster, whitebread, stroller mafia neighborhood you live in now- your grannie had died and YOU BROKE A NAIL.
I think your opinion of the neighborhood was sullied by your super negative attitude. Which is what caused you to have such a negative experience in the first place.
If you stand there and act like you don’t belong then that’s how you will be treated. Try wiping that “fraidy cat” stamp off your forehead and start acting like you live in F$#king NYC.
Men make lude remarks and bikes get stolen EVERYWHERE. You know how many bikes I’ve had stolen from lower 7th AVE PS in broad daylight. PLEAZE!
IDIOT.
I’ve been very interested in this development and have been itching to get over and see the apartments for a while. I called the broker on their website, who never showed up, and left me stranded in one of the worst areas I’ve been in a while (I used to live on Eastern Parkway and never had a problem), but here I got harassed by three different groups of dudes, granted it was just after school let out. Also, the pouch on my bike was ravaged through in broad daylight when I went around the corner.
The subway is a serious walk away, the map on Google seems almost absurdly off-scale and I was on my bike. Granted, the layout, price and finished on these apartments are enough to give me the vapours, but you couldn’t pay me to live here. There is no food around, you have to walk by broken down cars to get to the supermarket (which was big and seemed nice) but there is nothing to do in this area except to try and make it to prospect park.
If you’re intrigued about this units but are at all squeamish about seedy areas, don’t even bother. I spoke to the receptionist at the dentist’s office at the bottom of the building for a while and he said that the area was pretty awful, that there was nowhere to eat and to just stay out.
Please rebuild this building in Gowanus. K thnx.
That depends 7:38.
Mine would be virtually nil; yours would depend on how many enemies you have and their penchant for violence.
One additional factor specific to PLG. Although there has been a majority of people of color for 40+, years there have always been a substantial number of white people living here[especially in Lefferts Manor and the surrounding blocks]. Therefore white people have never been perceived as being in any way unusual here. At least,that’s been my personal experience over the last 33 years.
Exactly, 10:07. I’ve found the same thing. I greet people on the street in PLG if I meet someone’s eyes, and when I do I always get a friendly hello in return. Also once the people in the shops get a read on me that I’m a friendly person, they respond with a lot of warmth. It’s about what you put out there, to people.
The guys on the corners on Flatbush are in a culture where they feel they have to act cool or tough. Some might be truly tough-guys, I’m not so naive I think they aren’t, but I also know it’s an act for a lot of young men. I just walk past them like they’re anybody else standing there. Nobody is trying to convince people they should step outside their comfort zone and move into a largely black neighborhood, if that’s not the right thing for them. But if you’re interested in buying a house for under $1.5 million, it would make sense to be curious to know what people think, who actually do own property and live long term (not just rent for a year with no real investment in the community) in a largely black neighborhood.
I think you’re generalizing a little bit 12:09. I moved into what you refer to as a “poor black neighborhood” 7 years ago.
It’s changed considerably over the years, but my neighbors have always been very pleasant. We don’t hang out on a regular basis, and I rarely have had long conversations about anything other than “how are you today, nice weather, etc.”
When one of my neighbors has a fish fry in the summer – and sell the sandwiches on their front stoop – they can count on me to buy one. In the morning on my way to work, I say “hi” to the people sweeping up the leaves in front of their stoop and they do the same.
My point is, they know me. I’ve taken the time to say “hello.” Many people move into a neighborhood and live in constant fear of the surroundings instead of embracing them. Trust me, I don’t think it’s a perfect world and I know that all people are subject to racism from every side.
Every situation is different. However, you can’t tell me if you respect your neighbors for who they are and what they do, say “hi” when you pass by, and don’t act like you are afraid of everyone, that people are going to respond to your presence with constant muggings, hatred and violence. You are eventually going to become part of a community. I did.
11:28.
Feel free to write crap like that on your own blog but not here.
3:55 you can be white and as open to everyone as you can possibly be, but if you live in a mostly black neighborhood which i have done, you can’t change what they think of you. obviously, anyone of any race can be a criminal, but i have experienced a great deal of hate directed at me because i’m white by poor black people (not black people i meet through work or the friends I have from school), but people who are pissed that you are there, or looking to jack you.
when a white person moves to a mostly black neighborhood, many black people just seethe at you. this isn’t racism. racism is a preconceived notion. i’m talking about what really happens.
i lived in prospect heights for a couple of years and there was always a group of black male teens on the corner after dark. a day rarely passed by that they didn’t harass my boyfriend. he survived it of course, but why put up with that? life is too short.
point is, not everyone is going to move to this area because they understand what i’m talking about and just don’t want to add that stress to their lives.
i got robbed on park avenue in broad daylight on the upper east side. crime can happen anywhere in NY, but you won’t experience racism directed at you for being white in a white neighborhood. let’s not pretend that everybody is up for the challenge of moving to a poor black neighborhood.
1:18 – eat my asshole