Rental of the Day: 318 Westminster Road
While we’re all for floor-through brownstone rentals, they’ve got nothing on floor-through rentals in homes you can find in Victorian Flatbush, like this parlor floor apartment at 318 Westminister Road in Ditmas Park. These places tend to be a little cheaper and more spacious, and we can’t get enough of that suburban appeal in the…
While we’re all for floor-through brownstone rentals, they’ve got nothing on floor-through rentals in homes you can find in Victorian Flatbush, like this parlor floor apartment at 318 Westminister Road in Ditmas Park. These places tend to be a little cheaper and more spacious, and we can’t get enough of that suburban appeal in the middle of Brooklyn. This Marketplace Listing doesn’t provide as many pictures as we’d like, but clearly the apartment’s got the space (1,200 square feet), a reasonable rent of $2,500 for three bedrooms, and a front porch and lawn. We get excited just thinking about it. How do you like it?
318 Westminister Road [Douglas Elliman] GMAP P*Shark
ha ha calling it a “walkup”–it’s the parlor floor. so you’re walking up four steps at the front door. looks like a very attractive place and a good price to me.
This house is a little overpriced, but not by much. Don’t understand what all the sticker shock is about.
Nice…but also pretty rare, I think. Most of these Victorians are still one family.
In “real estateese” it’s all Ditmas Park. But in truth, it is a number of small neighborhoods between Prospect Park and the Long Island RR cut s/o Avenue H, generally known as Victorian Flatbush. For example, we live in the Fiske Terrace-Midwood Park Historic District, which is south of Foster Avenue, but not in Ditmas Park. But whatever you call it, this is a great nabe, great place to raise a family. We consider ourselves very lucky to live here.
I think this house is in the PS 217 zone (not sure). PS 217 is a wonderful school that more parents/kids want to attend than they have space. Great staff, fantastic mix of kids, strong academics, beautiful renovated building. We are also walking distance to Midwood High School and a very short subway ride to ER Murrow HS, two of Brooklyn’s best.
and this price is shocking.
1200 squarefoot walkup with no amenities, they want $2500 on dorchester. Its a slap in the face. Good for them.
I agree with Babs on the “Ditmas Park” question. We’re in Flatbush, and Flatbush is nice. One of my issues with the DP name is that it suggests something further away from Prospect Park, Manhattan, Park Slope, etc. The other issue I have with it is that people often don’t think of the apartment buildings or historic districts like Albemarle Kenmore Terrace that are in Flatbush but not Ditmas Park, as included in the broader Ditmas Park. But part of the advantage of the area for the people who live there is that there is a variety of housing types–wood frame, brick row houses, and prewar apartment buildings, plus some new construction. It’s a very large area and part of it is quite close to Prospect Park, part of it immediately surrounds Cortelyou Rd, and the southern part is further into Brooklyn but still has nice single family homes, leafy streets and driveways that make owning a car easier.
> This is not Ditmas Park.
Ditto what tybur6 said.
Aside all your fussy terms with names, this is one heck of a deal for a superb Victorian house.
Cortelyou Road is a 30 second walk from here. And $,1000 difference is alot.