Rentals of the Week: Crown Heights North
Judging from this week’s crop of rentals, there are still some decent deals to be had in Crown Heights. Clockwise from left to right: 1. 2-bedroom, top floor of brownstone, no fee, $1,595, Bergen at Kingston Ave. 2. New reno studio, $1,050, St. Johns at Nostrand 3. Gut reno 1-bedroom, exposed brick, $1,099, Bergen and…
Judging from this week’s crop of rentals, there are still some decent deals to be had in Crown Heights. Clockwise from left to right:
1. 2-bedroom, top floor of brownstone, no fee, $1,595, Bergen at Kingston Ave.
2. New reno studio, $1,050, St. Johns at Nostrand
3. Gut reno 1-bedroom, exposed brick, $1,099, Bergen and Bedford
4. 3-bedroom, rent-stabilized, $1,600, Lincoln and Bedford
5. 500-sf 1-bedroom, $1000, Lincoln and Bedford
ya 62 bucks in 62 would be $589.99 now.
The whole damn city is more expensive
Brownstoner:
Crown Heights must be increasing in value.
Until 1962, when my family moved from the neighborhood, we lived in a three-bedroom apartment with formal dining room, parquet de Versailles floors, kitchen with breakfast room and pantry, French doors and windows, wood paneling, and (“decorative”) fireplace.
And it was designed as an apartment, not carved from a brownstone, which meant it had a nice floorplan. All outside rooms with windows from street to courtyard. Quiet, too, with solid plaster walls.
The rent?
Eight-six dollars per month.
Granted, there’s been inflation, but not enough to multiply the rent for a three-bedroom 20 times to the level of the listing at Lincoln and Bedford.
To those looking in Crown Heights, I suggest that you buy and hold.
Nostalgic on Park Avenue
Ok, we’ll have to check out Foodtown. It’s not a matter of snobbery, we have just found that most “normal” grocery stores don’t have the best produce or lots of vegetarian options. Maybe this place is different.
We usually shop at Barzini’s on the upper west side. Know it? Nice place with inexpensive food.
My only thing is that if we are going to make the leap to Brooklyn it would nice to be in an actual neighborhood and not have to leave it to do everything we like to do. Don’t you think that’s reasonable when spending over a million dollars? We do.
Perhaps that isn’t the case. It sounded like it from someone above. We won’t know till we look.
3:25- well you can always go into manhattan and waste your money in more expensive places if you’re that much of a snob. Foodtown happens to be great- clean, new, well-stocked and lots of variety.
We can perhaps increase our budget to 2.5 million if we find something we really love. We’ve seen a few places listed in the numbered streets of Park Slope and a few in the named streets in the north (that is our favorite area…saw one on Berkeley Place not long ago…great location, not as great house). We aren’t really looking as much in South Slope as we’d like to be closer to the 2/3 and Q trains. Or the F.
Thanks for all your help.
We can’t wait to take advantage of the farmer’s market. Happened by it last summer on a trip out there. It’s amazing! What a nice way to start a Saturday morning.
All these areas sound like they have their positive and negative.
3:13 with 2 million you can find a nice siding shack in southslope near the BQE.
Actually, the Foodtown on Fulton and Brooklyn Ave. is a huge, clean, well-stocked market, worthy of the suburbs. I’m walking over soon for some fresh mozzarella and basil. We also ride our bikes to Grand Army Plaza on Saturdays for the farmers’ market.
So I would spend 1.4 million on a house in Crown Heights to shop at Foodtown?
With that kinda dough, I’d expect a little more. No offense. We are vegetarian and don’t have a car (and don’t want one) so it sounds like a bit of a pain for the kind of money we’d be looking to spend.
We’ll check it out though. Maybe I’m underestimating Foodtown??
FYI- there is key food and if you cross Atlantic to Fulton there is Foodtown. they deliver and you can order online- they’re really great. There’s a Petland and a host of businesses- it’s not nearly as trendy as Park Slope- but you can get pretty much everything you need. People have been doing so for well over a hundred years. It’s not a vacuum over here.