Daily News sez: PLG #1
In their wrap up of the Best of Brooklyn Real Estate, the Daily News named PLG the Most Underrated 'hood in the borough:
On the other side of Prospect Park from Park Slope, Prospect-Lefferts Gardens has stand-alone brick mansions with manicured front lawns and rows of beige brownstones. Because Flatbush Ave., the main retail stretch, is filled with phone-card stores and Caribbean beef-patty shops, the neighborhood gets neglected by upscale home shoppers. That doesn’t bother the people already there. They like being a secret, hanging out on stoops, cleaning their front doors and maintaining some of the best-kept streets in the city. A restored three-floor brownstone costs $1,125,000.
Not surprisinglyWith three-floor brownstones going for seven figures as the nation's economy implodes, the neighborhood wasn't named the best value in Brooklyn; that honor went to Kensington. About Kensington, the Daily News said:
The neighborhood also has its own watchdog. Two friends run www.kensingtonbrooklynblog to monitor growth and highlight such things as local authors, new restaurants and real-estate moves. Like any good blog, it doesn’t take itself too seriously while keeping an eye out for what’s what.
Kensington has a blog? I guess we should post more often.
Yes! We know it's a stretch being still-new parents and all. But. . . please! Post more often! We actually like what you're doing here!
Posted by: ceelledee | April 25, 2009 at 05:30 PM
No PLG beats Kensington. Our public transportation is better. More supermarkets too.
Posted by: patty | April 28, 2009 at 10:32 AM
I live on the Kensington side of the park, but I read both Hawthorne Street and the Kensington Brooklyn Blog. For the record, you guys are funnier. :)
Posted by: iandavid | April 29, 2009 at 05:27 PM
Yes, God forbid that some other Brooklyn nabe get some good press. I'm not a native Brooklyner and moved here only about five years ago, but I'll never understand why there is so much inter-nabe rivalry and ill-will in this borough. (And no, I don't live in either Kensington or Brooklyn.)
Posted by: Steve | May 19, 2009 at 12:57 PM
Whoa, Kensington has a blog?? What the heck am I doing here then?
Oh, and Steve, there is inter-neighborhood rivalry because Kensington rulz, and "PLG" drools.
Posted by: Dawn Summers | June 01, 2009 at 03:34 PM
Dawn, I'm telling your mother you said that.
Posted by: Charles Star | June 01, 2009 at 03:40 PM
hahahaha My mom lives in *Flatbush*
Posted by: Dawn Summers | June 01, 2009 at 05:56 PM