Residential Sales in Brooklyn
PARK SLOPE $1.05 Million 43 Windsor Place 2-family, 3-story prewar house; 2 bedrooms, 3 baths in primary unit; 1 bedroom, 1 bath in other unit; dining area in each; rear garden; 17-by-100-ft. lot; taxes $1,870; listed at $1.2 million, 2 weeks on market (broker: Betancourt) GMAP KENSINGTON $400,000 310 Beverly Road 2-bedroom, 2-bath, 1,100-sq.-ft. co-op…
PARK SLOPE $1.05 Million
43 Windsor Place
2-family, 3-story prewar house; 2 bedrooms, 3 baths in primary unit; 1 bedroom, 1 bath in other unit; dining area in each; rear garden; 17-by-100-ft. lot; taxes $1,870; listed at $1.2 million, 2 weeks on market (broker: Betancourt) GMAP
KENSINGTON $400,000
310 Beverly Road
2-bedroom, 2-bath, 1,100-sq.-ft. co-op in a postwar building; entry foyer; terrace; maintenance $687, 34% tax-deductible; listed at $380,000 (multiple bids), 2 weeks on market (broker: Orrichio Anderson Realty) GMAP
From the print edition of yesterday’s NY Times.
frame houses sell for around $1.2m regularly these days in the south slope. if you aren’t carefully watching where the market is it’s hard to see that it all makes sense, but there’s precedent for the 43 windsor pl. sale so the buyers do have comps to support their purchase. the question of ditmas vs. park slope is silly. they are two different neighborhoods with vastly different housing stocks and school, services, transportation options. why does one have to beat out the other one?
Park Slope rocks.. everyone else get over it!
Sorry 05:05 – you said it first and better than me. I should have read your post before posting myself.
On another point – why do people who move away from Park Slope so often feel the need to tell everyone why they moved away? It must be tough to carry such bitterness. Can’t you just move away and be happy where you are? Do you really think anyone cares that you don’t like Bugaboo strollers or through some amazing metaphisical connection you have with spirit world you witnessed the death of its “Soul”…. whatever!
11:35AM – I think it is funny that you found the perfect neighborhood but failed to mention its name. Are you keeping it a secret to protect housing prices or are you afraid of all the negative comparisons that can be made to Manhattan or Park Slope?
“Borders are important historically” oh please – they are not! We accept Caroll Gardens and Cobble Hill as neighborhoods today but they were just Red Hook or South Brooklyn just a few decades ago. No one cares except brokers and people who need to feel validated.
11:35, I hear ya. I lived in the Slope for a long, long time. I also left recently because I felt the Slope lost it’s soul. I was tired of getting trampled by $800 Bugaboos! Just curious…where did you end up? Anyway, I don’t never got the appeal of Windsor Terrace or South Slope. I do think people just want to be near the Slope instead of moving to another neighborhood.
Anon 3:32…”be in Cobble Hill if I walk a few feet one way, Boerum Hill a few yards the other, Carroll Gardens a few south and the brand new “Gowanus” must be there also.
All formerly known as South Brooklyn.” You might be interested to know this little tidbit of old-timer history that even prior to being known as South Brooklyn, these nabes, esp. CG, were known as RED HOOK which sent a shudder down many outsiders’ spines! That’s what residents called it back then, before anyone ever dreamed of calling it Carroll Gardens. Of course, as we know, Red Hook now exists on the other side of the BQE and has been pretty much self-contained for decades, but it once extended farther north and east than its present borders.
Borders are important historically. Maybe not in terms of your day-to-day wanderings, but in terms of the social and architecturally history of Brooklyn, they matter. Maybe in 100 years a thesis will be written on the dissolution of the borders of Park Slope, and then this discussion will also have historical merit.
The whole borders debate is so tired and silly. If a broker wants to make an ass of themselves by advertising a place on 25th street and 4th Avenue as Park Slope – let them. If someone buys an overpriced house because they fell for the lie – that is their own damn fault. Why do we really care? I say lets call the whole place Brooklyn Heights vicinity and be done with it.
I remember you could always tell when realtors were advertising house in FortGreene…. was referred to as ‘Bklyn Hts Vic.’