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.
anon 3:32, good points all, but i think borders matter, even if they’re ever-changing, for one reason–because brokers fudge them to try to con more $$ out of people. If it weren’t for the anal-retentive neighborhood name police, all of brooklyn would be park slope, and probably most of queens.
43 windsor place is park slope, if you accept that the south border in the prospect expressway, which most do nowadays, and the west border is PPW. And it’s closer to prospect park than being on 6th ave and 3rd st, say, and closer to subway station.
And “sprawl”? Go tell the people on W97th st they live in UWS sprawl..
“neighborhoods that were created as a social and/or architectural vision. ”
– what planet you from? many of the neighborhood names all you folks are using are ‘visions’ of modern day real estate agents, some stem from defined historic districts and all are arbitrary and ever-changing and ambiguous.
According to all you ‘namists’ I can walk out my house – 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.
And to me all the blocks around my home are my ‘hood – and I don’t transverse several ‘neighborhoods’ going out in the morning to get my coffee, newspaper and bagel.
Get over it. They are just names – nothing sacrosanct and are not politcally entities.
Borders are important, in that they preserve neighborhoods that were created as a social and/or architectural vision. What is odd about these blocks is that they don’t seem to fit in anywhere. I subscribe to the conservative definition of Park Slope (I don’t live there) and I’m not convinced South Slope is anything other than overpriced sprawl. This house may in fact be in Greenwood Heights, a neighborhood I would be interested in knowing a bit more about in terms of history.
to Formerly known as Anonymous…
thanx for informing us that our neighborhoods are eroding. For whatever reasons. I’ll be sure to be on the look out.
And people – ya better memorize those ‘borders’ – ’cause some folks get pretty testy.
And I haven’t seen any descriptions of Windsor Terrace that include this block of Windsor. This house is between 7th and 8th (it’s right off of 7th.) WT’s western border is generally considered Prospect Park West, although some say it is 8th Ave. Either way, this block doesn’t fit.
43 Windsor Place is between 7th and 8th Avenues. If anyone considers Windsor Terrace to extend west of Prospect Park Southwest, that’s news to me. If so, what’s its western border? 7th ave? 4th? the bqe?
imho this house is south slope (by the more liberal definition that extends park slope to the prospect expressway) or it’s greenwood heights/whateverthehellyoucallit (by the conservative definition that ends park slope at 15th street).
Formerly known as Anonymous – you make an important point. Again, the whole “what consitutes Park Slope” nonsense… Park Slope is Park Slope. Windsor Terrace is Windsor Terrace.
I know this is a dead horse, but c’mon, Windosr Place is Windsor Terrace – not Park Slope. It seems petty but the loose nomeclacture [sic] is part of what’s eroding the different neighborhoods. A small part of course, but a part nonetheless.