Open House Picks
Cobble Hill 28 Verandah Place Brown Harris Stevens Sat 12-2, Sun 12-2 $3,100,000 GMAP P*Shark Prospect Heights 129 Prospect Place Brooklyn Properties Sunday 12-1:30 $2,650,000 GMAP P*Shark Victorian Flatbush 2117 Albemarle Terrace Brown Harris Stevens Sat 1-3, Sun 1-4 $979,000 GMAP P*Shark Ditmas Park 493 Stratford Road Ditmas Estates Sunday 3-5 $899,000 GMAP P*Shark
Cobble Hill
28 Verandah Place
Brown Harris Stevens
Sat 12-2, Sun 12-2
$3,100,000
GMAP P*Shark
Prospect Heights
129 Prospect Place
Brooklyn Properties
Sunday 12-1:30
$2,650,000
GMAP P*Shark
Victorian Flatbush
2117 Albemarle Terrace
Brown Harris Stevens
Sat 1-3, Sun 1-4
$979,000
GMAP P*Shark
Ditmas Park
493 Stratford Road
Ditmas Estates
Sunday 3-5
$899,000
GMAP P*Shark
Wow, I’m really shocked at the prices of the Cobble Hill and Propect Heights houses. That CH house looks like the rooms are small and the ceilings look really low. It sure is cute, but for $3.1M I’m looking more for “spectacular” rather than “charming” (aka small). For $1500 psf, not to menion $1.5M per bathroom? Verandah Park is charming, but not nearly enough to warrant those prices in my opionion. Sheesh.
I have also read these comments with interest. We just moved to the area.
First-I want to say it is incredibly quiet here- you can hear crickets. It is a pleasant change from loud, noisy Park Slope. In Park Slope you have to drown out the sounds of drunken white folks loitering in the streets as they stumble home from the many bars and restaurants. In many ways this neighborhood is much more traditional. People dress for church each weekend; send their kids to school in uniform; and commute to work much earlier each morning. Strangers often say good morning and good evening to me in the street, even though I look different from them. Cops patrol the streets. Fish, poultry, and produce are a bargain. You can quit the food coop! The B/Q trains are very reliable. You are really close to the southern end of the Park and can enjoy the lake, the zoo, the drummer’s circle and Jamaican food.
There is at least one highly regarded public elementary school in district 22- and the kids don’t even have to huddle in construction trailers. I am not sure what is so off-putting to the other posters here. I realize it is not a gated suburban tract development-but if you want that why even bother looking for homes in NYC.
Saw the Albermarle House. It’s nice, but other than the kitchen, they did very little work on the place and it is hard to justify the $500,000 they intend to earn from reselling it (bought at 450,000 in 2005). The place needs a major, say 100,000+, dose of what folks in the biz like to euphemistically call TLC.
The Albermarle house is lovely. I’ve been in similar houses and like the layout.
Plus the upside to neighborhoods that don’t attract the uptight paranoid types is you get much cooler more progressive neighbors who are more fun to hang out with 🙂
Yes, thanks sarahshoshana, you said what I suspected (and hoped). I’m going to check out the Albemarle house.
sarahshosana–thanks for writing about your neighborhood. Its always better to hear from somebody who lives there rather than make assumptions based on conjecture etc. Sounds pretty nice actually. Hope you keep enjoying your house.
I have read these comments with interest. We own a house on kenmore terrace–the big one on the corner, which we bought 2.5 years ago and renovated. When we moved I was pregnant, and really worried about the neighborhood and its safety. After visiting many times, I was convinced it was ok and indeed it has been. Upscale, it is not–but after having lived here a few years, I can honestly say it really is a solid, safe working-class ethnically-diverse neighborhood. For those uncomfortable with diversity, it is not for you. But I have a two year old, and I also come back from work late many nights a week and I have NEVER felt unsafe even a little bit. It’s just different. there is a lot of hubbub on church ave always but people are not threatening in any way, and in fact are very warm. We’ve made lots of friends with jamaican shopkeepers. I do feel like I look differnt from the locals, but that’s ok. For an outsider used to gentrified neighborhoods, it might make you feel uneasy (as it did me) but living here is totally safe. We host a weekly toddler playgroup here and all the moms love these houses and they’ve never felt unsafe. There are many families and kids in the neighborhood and the neighbors are warm, lovely and generous. There are a ton of kid-related activities close by and cortelyou is a 15 min. walk away. Also soho is a 20 min subway ride away, park slope a 5 min ride–and the park is 5 blocks away. We also can be at the beach in 15 minutes–it’s a great compromise between urban and suburban living (we have a garden and a 6 bedroom house for what it would have cost to buy a nice 2 bedroom apt in park slope). the comments about the unsafety of the nieghborhood have an undertone of racism to me; As a resident and parent I can speak to the nabe’s safety–poor and solid middle class does not equal dangerous.
Well there you have some people who actually know the area. Interesting to read your history with the place Buttermilk. Surprised its as rough as it is but certainly don’t doubt you.
Tinarina…
I know what you mean. This has always been one of my favorite blocks, in all of New York. Nothing like it will ever be built again, and within the scope of Brooklyn’s history, this enclave is not that old.
I’ve known it since the late 60s, and have a nice memory of attending the wedding of one of my uncles at Dutch Reform in the md 70s, right up the block. My mother, aunt and uncle all attended Erasmus.
I had looked at this particular house the last time it was for sale, mainly out of curiosity. The new renovation looks quite nice. Just needs the right buyer.
BTW, the ‘walking around drunk’ comment referred to an earlier post. I wouldn’t try that one anywhere.