Open House Picks
Fort Greene 129 South Oxford Street Brooklyn Properties Sunday 12:30-2:30 $2,500,000 GMAP P*Shark Fort Greene 297 Vanderbilt Avenue Douglas Elliman Sat 1-3, Sun 1-3 $2,000,000 GMAP P*Shark Clinton Hill 125 Cambridge Place Real Property One Sat 12-2, Sun 12-3 $2,000,000 GMAP P*Shark South Slope 228 14th Street Corcoran Sun 12-2 $1,200,000 GMAP P*Shark
Fort Greene
129 South Oxford Street
Brooklyn Properties
Sunday 12:30-2:30
$2,500,000
GMAP P*Shark
Fort Greene
297 Vanderbilt Avenue
Douglas Elliman
Sat 1-3, Sun 1-3
$2,000,000
GMAP P*Shark
Clinton Hill
125 Cambridge Place
Real Property One
Sat 12-2, Sun 12-3
$2,000,000
GMAP P*Shark
South Slope
228 14th Street
Corcoran
Sun 12-2
$1,200,000
GMAP P*Shark
Actually, no, we definitely do not pay $15,000 to $20,000 in NYC income tax, 9:14am. I think whomever has that kind of NYC (not federal or state but city) income tax bill, they don’t have to worry over weighing overall costs of suburbs vs. NYC living.
RE high taxes in the burbs: Yes, but you do not pay NYC income tax, which is almost as much (depending on your income). Also, you don’t pay mortgage (since we’re talking co-ops too), and of course you don’t pay for private schools.
TO the chicky whose parents live across the treet maybe now they can finally fix their front door. THe chipped wood, etc. Dorothy…no more muggings in the hood 🙂
Property taxes and monthly co-op/condo fees are much higher in Manhattan, too.
You guys really should back up what you are whining about with actual facts and not just blabbing on here all the time. I dare you to find a coop or condo that has sold in a comparable building, in comparable condition, in prime Brooklyn Heights that is anywhere near what a coop or condo in prime Fort Greene or Clinton Hill has sold for on a price per sq. foot basis. That is just ridiculous. Same with the UES. And somebody is drinking the stuff they sell for a lot of money at Starbucks. And it really isn’t the people who live over here in FG and CH because we don’t have it here. But we will have crepes and better coffee soon from what I’m hearing on the avenue. Yes, for some reason we eat more french stuff in this area than perhaps we ought to. But I digress.
7:58, that simply isn’t true. Brooklyn Heights brownstones are more expensive than comparable brownstones elsewhere (also the percentage of large brownstones seems higher in BH), but for the prices that condos are going for in the Dumbo, Vinegar Hill, Clinton Hill, Fort Greene, I think you can get similiar if not equal value in Brooklyn Heights. Certainly on the Upper East Side you can get nice apartments that are cheaper than these “hip” areas of Brooklyn. For your information, Starbuck’s is not part of the appeal of these places either.
So these houses have like a million bucks worth of “vibe,” then?
Just see how far the $ for your place will take you in areas like downtown Manhattan or the UWS or even Brooklyn Heights. Then you will see that your money gets you much more space, a much better vibe, and a much quicker commute to most parts of Manhattan in Fort Greene/Clinton Hill than you will get elsewhere for your hardearned money. So the fact that Starbucks aint here isn’t exactly driving people away. And I don’t think the Manhattan transplants are missing all the bad Hunan Delight-type Chinese food takeout options or the outrageously priced bar drinks at their former haunts.
There was a pioneer discount until a couple of years ago in Brooklyn. Some recent college graduates told me that they didn’t want to live in Manhattan and wanted to live in hip Brooklyn. So maybe the discounts are in the farty old Manhattan nabes – UES, Sutton Place, etc. OR if you are committed to living in NYC and don’t want Manhattan, transportation rich places are the ones to look at – if you work midtown, Jackson Heights is close and still cheap. Riverdale is dirt cheap compared to Brooklyn. I even think that Brooklyn Heights in the established coops offers more than some of these new places – why live in Vinegar Hill and have a hike through the wilderness to the one train station when you can be a rocks throw from every major line in BH.
Things are getting very nuts now and I am not sure what is going on but I do know that price wise, a lot of this FG, CH price action doesn’t make sense. When I look at the amenities (CRAP) that I have in my Eastern Fort Greene neighborhood near Fulton, I’m glad that my place has appreciated, but can’t grasp it.