Rental of the Day: 682 Ocean Avenue
This one-bedroom apartment at 682 Ocean Avenue in Ditmas Park seems like a pretty nice deal. You’re in an elevator building, the apartment looks well maintained with some nice touches, and it’s not too far from Cortelyou. Nothing fancy, but it’s priced accordingly at only $1,200 a month. Think that’s a fair price for this…
This one-bedroom apartment at 682 Ocean Avenue in Ditmas Park seems like a pretty nice deal. You’re in an elevator building, the apartment looks well maintained with some nice touches, and it’s not too far from Cortelyou. Nothing fancy, but it’s priced accordingly at only $1,200 a month. Think that’s a fair price for this area of Ditmas?
628 Ocean Avenue [Pretty Prewars] GMAP P*Shark
These apartments along Ocean Avenue were once fortresses of elegance, and still have amazing bones–many have interior courtyards, Tudorish details etc. The one on the corner of this block (Beverly and Ocean) was home to Doug Fairbanks Sr (supposedly a penthouse dweller) during the brief time when the movie industry was centered in still-rural Brooklyn. However, judging from the battle-scarred security doors that now mar many of these facades, and what we hear about the Impact Zone in our 70th Pct, crime is still an issue along here. From the exterior shot, the “Paul Revere” looks like one of the better-maintained bldgs…
FWIW, I like Maplewood. Very quaint at Christmas time in a Dickens kind of way.
Organic cream from grass-fed cows, of course.
and maybe put a little cream in the decaf. It’s always better that way.
CFB – Might I suggest switching to decaf?
i freakin LOVE upscale amenities!!
geez louise y’all don’t get all defensive. if you’re not the ones making the ignorant posts then the comments weren’t meant for you.
if you haven’t noticed how moist people get when new upscale amenities open in their neighborhood, then you haven’t been paying any attention, broadwayron.
not to put too fine a point on it, but i’ve lived in a half-dozen brooklyn neighborhoods, and they’ve never failed to reveal themselves to be much deeper and nuanced than any real estate listing or blog post could ever hope to be.
in fact, i’m thinking that real estate, and the constant obsession with it, brings out the worst in all of us. myself included. Oh, there’s the CAPSLOCK!!
Isn’t that the suburbs?
I don’t like black people, so I guess I should stick with the slope/greenwood. #kanyeshrug
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“If people wanted bourgeois mundanity”…
What is that, and how do you know other people want it?
Something related to the “thinly veiled racism”?