PLG House Tour Tour-Day Photographs

I posted a link to my photos on another thread I had started about our house tour, but it was pretty much hidden,  so I thought it'd be a good idea to post it again, in a more obvious way:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/25605294@N00/sets/72157654356644122

Our tour had seven houses, one apartment, and four gardens. Five of the houses were Renaissance revival row houses on Midwood Street and Lincoln and Rutland Roads; the others  a Tudor revival and a colonial revival on Rutland Road and Sterling Street, respectively. The apartment was a large two-bedroom in Patio Gardens, a two-building early '60s high-rise on Flatbush Avenue. eleven local businesses (seven restaurants, four stores) offered discounts or other special incentives to tour-goers. Twenty-six businesses and one local arts organization contributed financially to the tour. Approximately five hundred people went on the tour. 

Some of the features that seemed most popular were the refreshments in three local gardens, which where not separately fenced, demonstrating the friendliness and neighborliness of Prospect Lefferts Gardens; an art-filled house (one of the owner's own paintings), and a house that demonstrated its recently installed solar electric set-up which actually produces roughly as much power as is consumed.

I was personally struck by the fairly large number of younger people who attended our tour (i.e. 30-somethings). My impression on another tour I attended in a nearby brownstone neighborhood two weeks earlier was that most tour-goers there were my age, or older. I take this to be a good sign.

Find out where those 30 somethings learned of the tour.

Did the organizers of the PLG tour advertise it differently than the other tour your attended?

Did they advertise it differently this year relative to last year?

I handle publicity for our house tour. With the demise of the NY Times' Thursday Home Section, which always ran a comprehensive house tour listing, I put some more effort into finding additional sites to send information ("Sosh",  for example).  Still, we've ALWAYS had lots of relatively young people attend. 

FWIW I was in my 20s when I went on my first PLG house tour in 1974, "discovered" the neighborhood through that, and closed on my house a few months later.

I suspect that several of the couples that we met on the tour were checking out the neighborhood, free from the pressure and bias of being accompanied by a realtor.

It is a nice area.

Exactly; that happens every year. It's probably what I love most about our tour–seeing young couples who remind me of me and my wife 40 years earlier.

I recommended the tour to my friends (a couple) who are considering moving to PLG down the line. They attended and thought it was great.