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
2:08…That sounds a little kooky, but whatever works for you. HAHA. good for you guys, though!
We’d rather spend a little more and actually live in a neighborhood where we can get groceries and have our kid walk to school.
I’m assuming if our budget is around 2 million, we should be able to find something in Park Slope….hopefully.
Crown Heights sounds nice…just too expensive for having to leave the neighborhood to have to do everything. We also had a friend who had some not so nice things to say about his time living there, but everyone has their own experience.
We are going house shopping this weekend, so we’ll take a look at both areas and see.
Crown Heights represents pretty good value right now, considering the NYC market as a whole. Some think we haven’t seen the bottom yet, and I tend to agree. But you know what they say, you can’t time the market. I would hope that some of you doubters come have a look at the many tree-line browntone blocks within the historic district, and the other blocks that have yet to be designated. In my opinion, this year is a great opportunity. In a few years, the next up cycle may price you out. You will meet more community-minded people like my neighbor Montrose Morris. 😉
I moved here from Brooklyn Heights- never regretted it. If you don’t live here and your “knowledge and expertise” have been acquired through the internet and news papers, your comments about what life is like here in Crown Heights North really have no validity. And to add to Montrose Morris’ comment about being landmarked- it isn’t as if landmark designations drop down from heaven like gentle rain. It took years of very hard, dedicated work by a lot of people- and the work was done, not by white gentrifyiers, but by long time multigenerational residents and homeowners. So if that’s what makes CHN a “bullshit” district, then bullshit is a compliment.
11:55- this is Brownstoner.com, not Brownstonehomeowner.com. There are plenty of us who rent and bring just as much to the neighborhood as homeowners. Don’t like us? go back to Manhattan.
1:54,Since moving to Crown Heights from Manhattan. My husband and I have learned to get our hustle on. We hung out in Park Slope for a few weeks talking to the stroller mafia until we found someone willing to let us use their address as a tenant to get our son in 321. We use the same address to order groceries delivered. So when we pick up our son from school, we also pick up our groceries and other things from park slope.Than we head back to our limestone in Crown Heights and live is good.
No, by most means it is not a lot safer. But you will get the same size house with lots of the same detail for a third of the costs. Just be prepared in the short run to buy groceries elsewhere, send your children to school elsewhere, and try to buy near the subway. Crown Heights still needs a little time, but with rentals getting scarce because of new homeowners living in two-thirds of the homes it will get better with time.
The What really lives in Miami.. he’s just a tad bit bitter becasue he sold too early.
Now he’s gonna cut and paste my comment and unleash his ebonic rage on me. I cant wait.
Is Crown Heights near Park Slope?
I’m looking there. I hear it’s a lot safer.
– Manhattan couple
What, thank you for the complement. I’m sure that will blow some minds.
Since I worked very hard to help Crown Heights North become an historic district, I most vigorously disagree that we are a bullshit district. I invite anyone to go to the LPC site, and look up the designation report. But you are right in that over-inflated prices are not cool, for lots of reasons.
Peace, brother.
I had a friend who suffered from that. He died from schorosis of the brain. He would be up all night ranting and raving about shit that made no sens….oh shit! Sorry What.