Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
It has potential with the original wood floors (hate glossy floors), moulding, and other details but that's high for a single family home in this neighborhood, back yard is tiny and that garden apartment is not 50% over grade so it's not a legal unit, you can see the mechanicals are on the same floor. On the plus side it is right near Highland park and two blocks from the J train. It's outside of the proposed rezoning area so those blocks will remain intact. They jack up the price with that illegal apartment but if an inspector finds out and you will have a huge PITA. Honestly a huge amount if not most of these houses have these types of units so it's a risk some people take.
NY Curbed actually featured this house yesterday, it's the third one down:
If I was buying in CH I would go for a legit two family like this:
it's lower priced, corner property, has a garage, tons of original details inside and the rental unit will command a higher rent especially since it's right near the J train.
If you want a single family home for more room I would go with this:
This is probably one of the oldest houses in CH, has a lot of original detail including the original porch, it's detached with a real yard and not far from Highland.
Saw this interactive map that shows all the shooting in your area for the last year. Just put in an address and it's show you what a 1 mile radius from it is. Red means fatal, yellow non-fatal.
Saw this interactive map that shows all the shooting in your area for the last year. Just put in an address and it's show you what a 1 mile radius from it is. Red means fatal, yellow non-fatal.
No kidding. One was over a dispute, the other was armed robbery. But just for some comparison, expensive-gentrified Fort Greene which is roughly the size of Cypress Hills and Cityline combined (if not smaller) and had more than twice as many shootings as CH/Cityline combined, dispels the image that we live in a war zone.
No kidding. One was over a dispute, the other was armed robbery. But just for some comparison, expensive-gentrified Fort Greene which is roughly the size of Cypress Hills and Cityline combined (if not smaller) and had more than twice as many shootings as CH/Cityline combined, dispels the image that we live in a war zone.
Without even looking at the map I know for a fact that all of those shootings happened in NYCHA. Fort Greene really doesn't have any problem areas besides NYCHA. Whereas ENY has blocks that are not NYCHA, but are just as bad. Granted ENY is a much larger neighborhood in land area, but you get the point.
__________________
"The man who sleeps on the floor, can never fall out of bed." -Martin Lawrence
Without even looking at the map I know for a fact that all of those shootings happened in NYCHA. Fort Greene really doesn't have any problem areas besides NYCHA. Whereas ENY has blocks that are not NYCHA, but are just as bad. Granted ENY is a much larger neighborhood in land area, but you get the point.
There were a bunch on Lafayette and a few more on Dekalb. In total, Fort Greene excluding the PJs had more shootings reported than Cypress Hills-City Line.
There were a bunch on Lafayette and a few more on Dekalb. In total, Fort Greene excluding the PJs had more shootings reported than Cypress Hills-City Line.
Are we looking at the same map? I count 2 (which does not classify as a bunch) on Lafayette. One which is actually not Fort Greene but Clinton Hill, in Lafayette Gardens housing project and the other one on Lafayette and Carlton which is legitimate Fort Greene. The ones on Dekalb? Meh. Charge that to the transient population; those shootings weren't committed by people living in the area. Everything else you see on that map happened in Ingersoll or Whitman. Fort Greene is fully gentrified and there are no bad areas besides NYCHA.
__________________
"The man who sleeps on the floor, can never fall out of bed." -Martin Lawrence
Are we looking at the same map? I count 2 (which does not classify as a bunch) on Lafayette. One which is actually not Fort Greene but Clinton Hill, in Lafayette Gardens housing project and the other one on Lafayette and Carlton which is legitimate Fort Greene. The ones on Dekalb? Meh. Charge that to the transient population; those shootings weren't committed by people living in the area. Everything else you see on that map happened in Ingersoll or Whitman. Fort Greene is fully gentrified and there are no bad areas besides NYCHA.
Regarding Lafayette, the map has one on Carlton, 4 by Fulton and 1 by Hanson (although if you click on the details for the Hanson shooting it states Crown Heights--so obviously the map has errors).
Personally I think every one of the Fort Greene shootings were by someone from the PJs, Bed-Stuy, Crown Heights or Flatbush.
Are we looking at the same map? I count 2 (which does not classify as a bunch) on Lafayette. One which is actually not Fort Greene but Clinton Hill, in Lafayette Gardens housing project and the other one on Lafayette and Carlton which is legitimate Fort Greene. The ones on Dekalb? Meh. Charge that to the transient population; those shootings weren't committed by people living in the area. Everything else you see on that map happened in Ingersoll or Whitman. Fort Greene is fully gentrified and there are no bad areas besides NYCHA.
So by your logic ENY can omit shootings on NYCHA land or by NYCHA residents because Projects are their own thing, we can also omit any shooting if the perpetrator is not an ENY resident and came from another area? I'm sure for you ENY has to own all of it's shootings but Fort Green can pick and choose, even though Cypress Hills and Cityline have no NYCHA projects and is a swath of land larger than Fort Greene yet has less shootings within it's borders. Fort Greene has to own it all because bullets don't stop for affluence/education/property values, FG residents still live around it and can be affected by it.
My statement was specifically on CH and Cityline, which is what this thread is about and is the focus of De Blasio's rezoning plan. It has always been acknowledged that the problem areas are predominantly south of Pitkin ave. and further shows that ENY is too large an area and too complex to paint it all with the same brush.
Side note:
Here's a map showing gang turf throughout NYC and shows what gang it "belongs to", you'll notice CH has none.
CH has come along way, I remember in the 90's King Tone the leader of the NYC Latin Kings (about 5K members back then) used to live on Hemlock right off the Crescent st. J stop. They used to hold meetings at Highland Park.
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.
Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
