Set Speed Condo Report: 364 Myrtle Avenue
Today’s new condo reports focuses on a development that has been profiled on Brownstoner before. Located on a busy commercial stretch of Myrtle Avenue between Clermont and Adelphi, lies this unique 4 story building. Featuring angled windows to take advantage of light and outdoor spaces, this new construction attempts to set itself apart from the…
Today’s new condo reports focuses on a development that has been profiled on Brownstoner before. Located on a busy commercial stretch of Myrtle Avenue between Clermont and Adelphi, lies this unique 4 story building. Featuring angled windows to take advantage of light and outdoor spaces, this new construction attempts to set itself apart from the others.
The site consists of one commercial condo and three large floor-thru duplex condominium units. The ground floor commercial unit measures in at just under 2000 square feet for $994K, while the other three units are 1533-1688 square feet and cost $877K, $890K and $919K. The residential units have 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms. Maintenance is about $260 a month.
Units feature 17 foot high ceilings, large gourmet kitchens with stainless steel appliances, en-suite bathrooms, spacious closets and laundry hook-ups. This condo is located close to many amenities, like supermarkets, restaurants, bars and hardware stores. But as last week’s two shootings attest, the area still contains some rough spots. An open house is scheduled March 26 from 12:30 to 3:30pm.
364 Myrtle Avenue [Corcoran] GMAP
New Building on Myrtle [Brownstoner]
Every Thursday, ltjbukem, whose own blog Set Speed scrutinizes the progress and quality of new developments in the area we know as Brownstone Brooklyn, pens a guest post about goings-on in the condo market with an emphasis on new projects.
Sorry anon- my post was directed at lp.
I’m sorry- I just can’t agree with that. It shouldn’t be up to a real estate agent or a gentrifier to decide how other people should live their lives and where.You are talking about putting people out of thier homes because you’ve made a judgement call saying that only money has rights. I grew up poor- if you don’t know what it is like, you have no right to either judge or determine where poor people “ought to be put” (my quote marks).
Maybe I’m overly sensitive but I really distrust those attitudes- it’s too easy to go from “that group needs to leave because I say so” to “gee, I don’t like looking at disabled people. Make them go away.” I can hear the screaming now but it’s a reality. Look how we are treating gay people in this country- We want America to be a Disney theme park- well, that’s not the human condition. And it’s not reality. And where in the Constitution does it say you are more equal if you have more money? Better think long and hard about whether or not you really want things that way because the door is already open to eminent domain. Someone richer can take your house too.
Some of the people who post on this topic are just clueless about how the other half lives, and some of the things you write are not just divorced from reality but vile. CrownHeightsProud, GardensGal, Bx2Bklyn–some good points, as usual. But…when renters are displaced by gentrifying neighborhoods, further south in Brooklyn is not always a choice–they are often evicted from apartments cheaper than they could find, and racism still plays a part in housing in Brooklyn. And to you guys who say, with shock worthy of Casablanca’s chief of police, “But I’m not the one who brought up race!” Oh yes you are. This is about race and about white guilt and let’s face and address that. In other areas, it may be more about class or about class alone, but it’s about race in this part of Brooklyn. And you may be a real upstanding guy who is deeply offended by the wipe em all out rhetoric of some of these anonymous posters, but you also may secretly agree that things will be better with white money and taste running things. Just realize that better for you is not an absolute–it is not better for people forced out into housing scams in the Poconos or some other such crap.
Sorry for the typos and grammatical errors in the post above “there” not “their” etc.
My point is, look beyond whatever some provocateurs are saying on this thread. If you’ve been thrifty and lived in a the projects and saved up enough dough for a small down payment on a place, you might have to be a “pioneer” somewhere else. Be proud, get excited, don’t stagnate lamenting that the prices are not still the same as the 1970s or that the rough neighborhood you grew up in has now returned to its former upscale beginnings.
The sense of entitlement is in the fact that people think that they should be able to live in any neighborhood, even if prices rise. I agree that we need more low income and moderate income housing. I don’t think that people who receive it are entitled to say they want it in a specific neighborhood. People all over the country move in search of economic security trying to make the best with what they can afford. It is silliness to say that since you have lived in a project building for 30 years in a specifc neighborhood that you are entitled to live their forever or that if you’ve saved money for a down payment on a house, you’re entitled to buy a house in the neighborhood you grew up in. Come on people, take off your blinders and think outside of the box.
Oops, better stop posting anonymously. Joseph McCarthy III and the House of Un-American Activities Committee is out to get our ip addresses and weed out the communist factions. If I wasn’t paranoid before I definitely will be now.
Taxpayers are footing the bill for Iraq courtesy of our present administration.You may want to take a look at the numbers of working class young men and women who are in the military to try and make a better life for themselves and their families. We don’t do well for our veterans- I’ve seen this first hand. And yes there are family problems in these neighborhoods- but show me one level of American society that doesn’t have them. When you’re in upper income brackets you can pay to keep the truth hidden.
No harm meant Brownstoner. But a good debate makes for a lively forum so I can’t help but believe that you’re playing devils advocate and stoking the fire in the background. Either that, or there is a lot of ‘relics’ out there with small-town ideals (the wrong kind) who aren’t able to adapt and keep up with a rapidly changing, multi-cultural, global society. Leave the poor people alone; live and let live.
See y’all have driven me crazy what I was trying to say was:
They absolutely could and should. In Brooklyn that puts them in further north and east, where there are many single family homes that are still affordable, and new construction going up everywhere.