Priciest Brooklyn Sale of '09 is in Gravesend!
Holy moly! The sale of 2111 East 2nd Street in Gravesend for $10.26 million just hit public records, and although the price tag isn’t high enough to make it a Brooklyn record, it’s definitely the biggest sale of this year, and probably one of the top 10 or so biggest house sales in the borough…
Holy moly! The sale of 2111 East 2nd Street in Gravesend for $10.26 million just hit public records, and although the price tag isn’t high enough to make it a Brooklyn record, it’s definitely the biggest sale of this year, and probably one of the top 10 or so biggest house sales in the borough ever. (Houses in Brooklyn Heights, for example, have traded for more.) Here are the specs on 2111 East 2nd from Property Shark: It’s an 8,206-square-foot one-family house that was built in 1998. The buyer of the manse was cloaked behind an LLC.
2111 East 2nd Street Deed [ACRIS] GMAP P*Shark
Photo from Property Shark.
Are people really so shocked? It’s not any different from the upscale white protestant neighborhoods all over this country that found ways to keep out Catholics, Jews and non-whites. Those practices ended whenever a wealthy person who could otherwise afford a house sued the neighborhood or seller’s broker or whomever participated in the discrimination. It happened in a neighborhood in the FL town where I went to high school as recently as the 80’s. I guess somebody could sue to buy a house in Gravesend if anybody other than Syrian Jews had any interest whatsoever in living there. Much less spending $10 million to do so.
Well thought-out comment there by “Joe from Brooklyn”
Dave, the poor ones are more towards midwood from Avenue I to avenue R. From R to about X is where all the houses that sell for over 3 mil.
Where do the poor ones live??? the ones that can’t come up with $10 MM???
Sounds like a delightful group of people, Brenda.
Why don’t you BSer’s just bypass the riducule and go directly to the death camps for all etnic whites?
Thanks, Brenda — what an interesting article! And it mentions a house that sold for $11 million in 2003.
got kidneys?
The Times ran a fascinating, in-depth profile of the Syrian Jewish community in 2007 that will explain the sky-high price tag (and offers what seems like a balanced look at the community’s virtues and vices):
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/14/magazine/14syrians-t.html