Rentals of the Day: Sunset Park Picks From Craigs
The listings we found this week for Sunset Park present an interesting contrast to the Kensington rentals highlighted last week: In a nutshell, it looks like Sunset Park is a much better value than Kensington right now. Here are the Craigslist pickings, clockwise from upper left: 1. 1-bed, 700-sf, near park, $1350; 40th St. at…
The listings we found this week for Sunset Park present an interesting contrast to the Kensington rentals highlighted last week: In a nutshell, it looks like Sunset Park is a much better value than Kensington right now. Here are the Craigslist pickings, clockwise from upper left:
1. 1-bed, 700-sf, near park, $1350; 40th St. at 6th Ave.
2. Gut-reno 1-bed, 1 block to train, $1100; 58th St. at 4th Ave.
3. Jr. 1-bed, EIK, parquet flrs, $1100; 54th St. betw. 3rd/4th aves.
4. 2-bed railroad, sep. kitchen, $1300; 45th St. at 3rd ave.
5. Studio, elevator bldg, terrace, $1075; 57th St. at 3rd ave.
I Have lived in New York my whole life-i travel throughout the city for work and know neighborhoods first hand.
Sunset park Will Be what Park Slope has become-for better or worse-depending on your taste.
Remember the Slope in the early 90’s 5th 6th 7th Aves (7th Street higher)If you are looking for a good value buy it now. In 4-5 years you won’t be able to get the prices you are getting now.
Those in the know already bought up the single and 2 family brownstones.
I have never felt unsafe, morning, evening and late night.
“good for you, 5:15. maybe if you were a non-hispanic woman (and i’m not white, fyi), walking up 41st during a warm early evening, you maybe encounter one of these mythical punk ass teenagers. i’ve witnessed a number of drug busts (including today in front of the school). i suppose, because you’ve never been offered drugs (they’re not that stupid, you effing moron), drug dealers never existed in sunset park.
and you have to go to 8th ave. chinatown to get any produce.
god, i hate sanctimonious jerkoffs, who can’t admit, yes, your glorious nabe has a shitty side to it.”
5:15 here. I AM a white woman. I live on 41st Street. I have never once been harassed. Not once. In 15 years.
I never said there isn’t a shitty side to my neighborhood. I simply said that it is NOT TRUE that the neighborhood is unsafe and rife with drug activity. As for whether drug dealers offer drugs to white women — well, I can tell you never spent time in W. Sq Park or the Lower East side not so many years ago.
In nice weather, Sunset Park is filled with families every evening after work and all weekend. There are numerous soccer games, volley ball games, tai chi practitioners, children on bicycles, strolling couples, etc. etc. etc. It is a lively and safe place. I run in the park frequently, hills and all, in the day time and the evening.
And no, you ignorant jerkoff, you do not have to go to 8th Ave to get any produce. The Key Food on 5th (a clean and well-managed supermarket) has respectable produce, and there’s a chinese grocer a few blocks further south on 5th who carries a wide range of produce. But I guess you’ve never taken your head far enough out of your ass to learn these things.
That is really sad, 7:58. How awful. As if those guys don’t have a hard enough life as it is.
I have been to Sunset Park, recently, not years ago, and there is certainly a criminal element there, please. It’s really grubby and unattractive, too. Shockingly ugly for all the buzz. I always think, I don’t get it. The new developments and new residents and new businesses if they keep coming and don’t slow down with the economy slowing, might change the landscape aesthetically eventually, but they have a big job on their hands.
I used to hire my workers from Sunset Park for construction. The is anedotal, but many of my workers would get ripped off on pay day as they exited the trains. My guys would say that “they” are waiting for them like ATM machines every Friday, so there is crime that never gets reported and never affects white people.
good for you, 5:15. maybe if you were a non-hispanic woman (and i’m not white, fyi), walking up 41st during a warm early evening, you maybe encounter one of these mythical punk ass teenagers. i’ve witnessed a number of drug busts (including today in front of the school). i suppose, because you’ve never been offered drugs (they’re not that stupid, you effing moron), drug dealers never existed in sunset park.
and you have to go to 8th ave. chinatown to get any produce.
god, i hate sanctimonious jerkoffs, who can’t admit, yes, your glorious nabe has a shitty side to it.
the latino population of sunset park has changed. when i lived there it was more Puerto Rican. they didn’t like none Puerto Rican in the area.
the current latino popluation is much more mellow.
i still stand by my statement below 4-5 ave around ss is not nice as above it.
“i live facing the park, and there are plenty of drug dealers, passed out drunks, horrible punk ass teenagers harrassing everyone, and their ex-convict fathers. ”
Bullshit. I have lived in a co-op facing Sunset Park for 15 years. I have never been harrassed by any “punk ass teenagers” (unlike Prospect Heights, for example, or Fort Green). I have never been offered drugs to buy (unlike in Washington Square Park, for example). I have parked a car on the street the entire time I have lived here and it has never been touched, not once (unlike when my trunk was broken into on the Upper West Side or when a headlight was stolen in Park Slope). Yes, there is the occasional drunk passed out at the bottom of Sunset Park — not a one of them has ever harassed me.
Unlike places like chunks of Bed-Stuy or all of Bushwick, Sunset Park has good ethnic restaurants, a good supermarket, and lots of places to buy vegetables. Cute boutiques, bars, etc. are all readily accessible in Park Slope. Transporation is excellent (both N and D lines express to Manhattan). Sunset Park is in District 15, which has a number of well-regarded schools outside of the famous Park Slope schools. People concerned with schools can check out insideschools.org for details. There are quite a number of middle class families with young children who have recently moved into my co-op who plan to send their children to local schools.
“There is also a pleasant lack of gentrification animosity that pervaded Prospect Hts when I lived there (98-05)”
Thats because the Mexican and latino population is less entrenched in the minority struggle, get Whitey mindset. They go about their business and leave you alone.
Other gentrifying neighborhoods – not so much.
“Sunset Park has proven to be much safer than my prior, more expnesive and “tonier” Prospect Hts. nabe”
Sunset Park minorities are mostly mexican and latino. Much more mellow and less crime minded then other minorities you may encounter in other neighborhoods.
alot of the people in this area are either 1. Working class with families to feed.
2. Illegals trying to make a buck and keep their profile low.