Six Months Later: Open House Picks 6/29/07
Comment: Makes sense the Clinton Hill manse would take a while to sell, though you have to wonder how realistic the price is. If anyone has info on the Bay Ridge listing, drop a line. Open House Picks 6/29/07 [Brownstoner]
Comment: Makes sense the Clinton Hill manse would take a while to sell, though you have to wonder how realistic the price is. If anyone has info on the Bay Ridge listing, drop a line.
Open House Picks 6/29/07 [Brownstoner]
Safety issues aside, Carroll Gardens is just kind of ugly. Nearly all of the homes have been stripped of external ornament and detail, leaving row upon row of rather bland, brown boxes.
6:46
“Living their anymore?”
Did you finish the seventh grade?
Just because the old-time mobsters of Carroll Gardens and Bay Ridge did (or still do) their shootings outside their neighborhoods if they could help it, doesn’t mean they weren’t murderers the same as any. I wouldn’t brag about having the mafia in my neighborhood. Romanticizing them is disgusting. They’re thugs.
6:44
“Only Fort Greene and Clinton Hill, in the whole metro area, are neibs that I think are really integrated”
Clearly you haven’t spent anytime in the Slope. Not only is it racially integrated, it has must have more mixed racial marriages than anywhere in the world. I’m always seeing these black ladies pushing their white babies in their stollers all over the neighborhood. Warms the heart to think what an open minded community it is! The only funny thing is, the babies usually don’t look much their moms, but go figure.
6:02
I moved to Carrol Gardens in 1994. Soon after I moved in the owner of the deli on Henry + Degraw was shot and killed in a store hold up. About a year later, there was an execution in Carroll Park – guy named Jerry I think. So, let’s not get all nostalgic about how immune Carrol Gardens is/was.
PS. a goodly number of those old Italian families did move and sell. It’s not their grndkids living their anymore.
6:23
You don’t think an Italian person would get the fisheye in Bed Stuy?
Get over it. People in NYC always moved to neighborhoods were they felt comfortable because other people who shared their same background and ethnic roots lived next door. Only the very rich lived in areas shared by other ethnicities, and that’s only because they were all very rich! But even on Fifth Avenue there are the Jewish buildings and the Protestant buildings and the Catholic buildings. It’s the way we are here in NYC. Apartheid had nothing on us.
Only Fort Greene and Clinton Hill, in the whole metro area, are neibs that I think are really integrated and that is only because they used to be solidly Black but starting about twenty years ago Whites moved in to snap up bargains. -And not exactly to “welcome wagons” either. Its tough. our ideals and the reality of realty are two diff. things in our great US of A.
Ah, yes 6:02pm. Nothing says safe, ‘crime-free’ and wholesome like a neighborhood protected by the mob. There’s a great selling point. Sounds just like Bensonhurst or Bayridge – – and is still very much like them…charming. Is Jer-sey in the house?!!
Rehab, sorry but there is no comparison to the Pfizer mansion. Absolutely none. Apples & horse apples. Pfizer mansion was worth it, this one, sadly, is not. No amount of sprucing or planting will help. Only a price cut of $1+ million.
What – you forgot to include to data re median price – how did that number compare to last year?