House of the Day: 428 East 18th Street
Any house under a million bucks these days is going to come with its set of drawbacks. In the case of 428 East 18th Street, the list appears to include some less-than-attractive siding and a lack of privacy in the backyard. If you can get beyond those two things, though, this place might start to…
Any house under a million bucks these days is going to come with its set of drawbacks. In the case of 428 East 18th Street, the list appears to include some less-than-attractive siding and a lack of privacy in the backyard. If you can get beyond those two things, though, this place might start to look good to you. The house is priced at $899,000 but we hear that the highest offer to come in so far is around $820,000, so it sounds like there’s some room to wheel and deal. We’re digging the nice floors and the two-car garage (with plumbing!). How’s this block in general?
428 East 18th Street [Brooklyn Hearth] GMAP P*Shark
428 East 18th Street [Mary Kay Gallagher]
We live in Ditmas Park and our son goes to Brooklyn Friends School. Quick jump on the B to Dekalb and then we grab the A to our jobs. We sell an organ a year to pay for it but that’s our choice. All the talk about public schools on Flatbush Family Network regularly tell me we made the right choice for us.
i can’t even respond the above post….actually i’m done with this site…i think it is a site of privileged people who think who their children are and that is a sad fact
We’re in Victorian Flatbush and our daughter goes to Holy Name (Prospect Ave and PPW)…old-fashioned ‘Bells of St. Mary’s’ plus perfect mix of Brklyn diversity ca 2007, and the school’s somewhat threadbare physical plant is about to get a buildout from a private foundation. Decent education, caring staff, safety and K thru 8 (i.e. no middle-school rat race) for $4K/year…For Catholics (and even non-Catholics, we got them too), a nice compromise between public school and $25K/year private school.
actually i think all the children at 139 in ditmas park get the benefit of involved parents…most parents at 139 do not own homes in ditmas park…they are renters. That said it is a good school with a good base and a very good pta…renter and owners…without that base no child would get a scholarship to got to italy.
NYC or Westchester or Long Island…choice or no choice…I choose NYC School system…hard to navigate but at least there is choice…I don’t want to pay $10,000.00 a year in property taxes to get stuck in a Westchester/Long Island school.
I agree that education is up to a parent, not a neighborhood, well put.
But I’ll take anon 10:22’s last comment with a grain of salt. With interested and active parents, kids will succeed…that being said, many parents in neighborhoods with a hell of a lot less than ditmas park would love a little more help from their community or school, and they deserve it. While our kids are off studying in italy, other kids would love a textbook or to afford a musical instrument, and that’s no exaggeration. We can afford to sit around at night chatting on blogs about our real estate “troubles”. Wah us.
my two oldest daughters went 217 the oldest is now in college at Savannah College of Art and Design after having been to Hudde for jr. high and ICE for hs…my middle child is in 11th grade and just came back from 5 months as an exchange student in Italy…Vetto a small town in the Apennine Mts…..she has been a student at ICE since 6th grade (before her older sister…thank goodness I didn’t subject her to Hudde)…my youngest graduated from 139 last year and is also now at ICE….321 is not the be all and the end all…be a proactive parent in any school and your child will do fine…your child’s education is your job….not your neighborhood’s
I think there is no magic bullet on the school thing. PS321 gets great reviews but it is also overcrowded and ends in 5th grade. PS139 and 217 have good reviews for its minischools and eagle programs but again after 5th grade you got start the application program to get your kids into the best school possible like other nabes. Then of course there are charter schools which are all over brooklyn and have lottery systems and there are private schools which are increasingly difficult to get into. I think all nyc parents go through the same thing and there is no one neighborhood with terrific public schools that get you through highschool. Most parents I know whether public school route, charter, or private end up agonizing and often find a school suited for their children and its rarely in walking distance. But as for this nabe, I find the schools pretty good and from what I can gather from some teachers and parents has some of the best grade schools and highschools in the city, but again when you’re dealing with lotteries and private school apps there is just no guarantee. At this point in the process I’m just glad I found a great pre-school for my kids through kindergarten 🙂
minor point but if it was built in 1899 it is indeed ‘Victorian’. Her reign ended in 1901.