This three-bedroom, two-bath triplex in Gowanus is charming and big enough for a family. Although the listing claims the apartment is in Carroll Gardens, it’s actually just over the boundary east of Hoyt and within two blocks of the canal. The apartment is spread across a parlor floor, garden floor and a furnished basement. It also has a little private garden.

The two parlor-floor bedrooms seem nicely sized. The third is located in what the listing calls the basement, but it’s below the garden floor, which technically makes it the cellar. Usually bedroom units on that level are illegal, and in this location, we’d be worried about flooding.

The kitchen has been nicely renovated and offers a Viking stove, dishwasher and washer/dryer, as well as an island for additional counter space. And it’s only two blocks from the Carroll Street F and G trains. Of course, all this space and a garden doesn’t come cheap. What’s your opinion of it for $5,500 a month?

57 2nd Street, #1 [Halstead] GMAP


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  1. This is my childhood home, my parents owned it for over 40 years. There are no light wells in the “cellar”, as the “garden floor” is slightly below street level. When I lived there it was just that, a cellar, with concrete floors, a noisy oil burner and lots of dark scary corners ….. that doesn’t change the fact that this was a home filled with much happiness and love. Lots of luck to the next residents, may they make the same wonderful memories there that my family did.

  2. Is there a floorplan I’m not seeing? If I’m reading this right, the top floor is occupied, which I”m guessing means those tenants use the stoop entrance and the triplex uses the garden entrance. That means the parlor floor is even that much smaller for the triplex. For $5500 I sure don’t want tenants stomping around above the bedrooms.

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