Open House Picks
Park Slope 377 Third Street Brown Harris Stevens Sunday 12:30-2 $2,399,000 GMAP P*Shark Cobble Hill 11 Warren Place Prudential Douglas Elliman Sunday 4-5 $1,275,000 GMAP P*Shark Bedford Stuyvesant 720 Marcy Avenue Nat Rambod Sunday 1-3 $999,000 GMAP P*Shark West Midwood 777 Rugby Road Mary Kay Gallagher Sunday 1-3 $950,000 GMAP P*Shark
Park Slope
377 Third Street
Brown Harris Stevens
Sunday 12:30-2
$2,399,000
GMAP P*Shark
Cobble Hill
11 Warren Place
Prudential Douglas Elliman
Sunday 4-5
$1,275,000
GMAP P*Shark
Bedford Stuyvesant
720 Marcy Avenue
Nat Rambod
Sunday 1-3
$999,000
GMAP P*Shark
West Midwood
777 Rugby Road
Mary Kay Gallagher
Sunday 1-3
$950,000
GMAP P*Shark
Just had to join in to this older posting. W.Midwood is where we live and we find it better than the nabes closer to Prospect Park. Less crime, amazingly friendly and diverse community, huge houses. I’m friendly with an ultra-orthodox family on our street, as well as the heavily tatooed single guy. Everyonen is welcome. We also find that between Cortelyou Rd, Newkirk Plaza, Avenue J, and Coney Island Ave, there’s no lack of great food. Italian, Mexican, sushi, American, coffee shop, Lebanese, one of the best and most famous pizzerias in NYC, etc etc etc. Apparently the crime in PPS is much much higher than in the areas further south. And there are wayyyy more young families with children closer to Ave. H. Not only that, but 2 new stores opening on Ave. H, a family-friendly athletics center with kickboxing, yoga, karate, movement for kids, etc. And a children’s store, both due to open this summer!!! We love the ‘hood and my husband who works on Wall Street rides his bike to work in 25 minutes flat. Or a 10 minute car ride through the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel if we’re out at night. So much better than the Slope. Plus a quick Q train to BAM for art house cinema and a beer!
I don’t mean to diss the neighborhood, I was responding to someone’s query about why someone wouldn’t want to come here. You certainly can get so much more for your money here, and the trees and gardens and houses are gorgeous. I agree entirely.
That said, I live near Newkirk Ave., next to the subway, and it’s not quiet or clean here. Certainly I can walk to C-Town or Associated with my cart (and I do), but most people I know drive to Shoprite or the PS Food Coop to save money. Picket Fence is great, but it is too expensive for my budget.
Your description of pastoral Ditmas Park sounds wonderful! I’m glad you have such a great block.
Anon 1:20 pm has it on the nose — the difference between the north and south end of Victorian Flatbush. I also agree — Fiske Terrace is amazingly gorgeous, I walk around there whenever I can.
I posted earlier, to say that I think there is a big difference between living in the Northern vs. Southern ends of Victorian Flatbush, in terms of suburban anomie. Newkirk needs a Cortelyou style revitalization for that to change. However, it is damn pretty down there, not to mention tranquil… I didn’t want to live the subway line, so excluded houses on the tracks from my search. However, I know people who don’t mind the noise and they saved I would say $200K on the price of their house. For some people, it’s a good deal.
feelingdesperate must be living in a different Ditmas Park then the area between BSW and DPW that I live in.
– I Don’t have a car and it’s a short walk to grocery store, the co-op (which delivers). I’m a few blocks from the Q train at Cortelyou and a brisk walk or bus ride to the F train (been using F train on weekends during the Q train construction work).
– It’s not peaceful, or quiet, or clean ? It’s very peaceful where I am. Wasn’t the subway was there where you picked the house? If the subway noise bothers you, you shouldn’t have picked a house so close.
– No restaurants? Then what have I been eating at on Cortelyou or down by Ditmas, they sure seem like restaurants.
– No activity on the street? The commercial streets are always busy when I walk thru, day or night. And the residential streets are wonderfully serene and peaceful. I would not want much “activity” on the pastoral tree lined residential blocks.
– Neighbors particularly chummy? What are you sitting around waiting for them to bring you a basket of homemade jam and scratch baked bread ? Did you go to the Arbor Day tree planting? Everyone was chummy there. Get out there and say hello to your neighbors, introduce yourself.
No- that would be you, Uve. But thanks for making it a misery to participate in the blog- not just for me, but for everyone. I’m done.
Crap. Just when things start to get interesting and legit again, Bx2Bklyn resurfaces to resume her trolling. That’s probably her posting as “anonymous” as well. I suspect she is asking the questions, answering them, disagreeing with her own answers and doing anything she has to do to upset someone…anyone.
anon 9:06-
You are’t naive and I think you will find that indeed they do want to be good neighbors. YOu will need to accomodate certain aspects of their beliefs but in general they can be very warm and welcoming despite what you hear.
Can’t we stay on topic…just this once…please?
Thank you Mr. B- I apologize for the situation and for the trouble caused to B2B. Seems you just can’t get rid of the blog troll and it is next to impossible to know who is and who isn’t. I’ll keep reading the blog but for the record I will not be posting again. Any further posts under my name are not coming from me but from the troll.