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May 14, 2008

Hey, at Least One Person Digs the Carroll Gardens Atrocity


Pardon Me for Asking spotted a great advertisement Channel 4 spot from a program called "Open House TV" that features 45 3rd Place, aka the Carroll Gardens Atrocity aka the Carroll Gardens Bastard aka the Carroll Gardens Tumor Building. In the program, above, a current resident of Carroll Gardens is looking for a bigger pad in the neighborhood, and she almost does cartwheels while touring a unit at 45 3rd (sample quotes: "beautiful, beautiful"; "the angels are singing!"; "it's everything I want!"). (FYI, they're now trying to sell the two duplexes as a single residence.) PMFA has the following commentary on the show: "Obviously, she did not buy the place, otherwise, it wouldn't be on the market anymore...Pardon me for asking, but why did they need a car to go from one place to the other? The distance from Ms. Stewart's house and the two condos is ridiculously close. What a waste of gasoline." You know, when the angels are singing, it's tough to worry about the little stuff, like gas usage.
Desperately Seeking Buyer For 45 3rd Place! [PMFA]
45 Third Place Open House: Yuck! [Brownstoner]
Condos of the Day: No Buyers for 45 Third Place [Brownstoner]
A Current Look at Third Place Horror Show [Brownstoner]
Price for CG Atrocity a "Fantasy" [Brownstoner]
Real Photos of Carroll Gardens Bastard [Brownstoner]
Carroll Gardens "Bastardization" Hits Market [Brownstoner]
CG Atrocity: There Goes the Neighborhood [Brownstoner]




Posted by Gabby at 3:01 PM | Comments (24)
Categories: Carroll Gardens, Condos

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This episode was on weeks ago. Gabby, if you work for a real estate blog, shouldn't you have seen it then rather than just cannibalizing some other real estate blog?

Posted by: guest at May 14, 2008 3:07 PM

So, d'ja reckon the broker's banging her?

Posted by: guest at May 14, 2008 3:15 PM

How annoying is she...WOW...

That Carroll Gardens apartment is really sweet inside though...

Posted by: guest at May 14, 2008 3:16 PM

I'm not a buyer but I play one on TV.

Posted by: guest at May 14, 2008 3:17 PM

besides the fact that Mary is nuts, you can do a LOT better for 1.5mm. get a real broker Mary --

Posted by: guest at May 14, 2008 3:24 PM

Dude. Both those peeps are totally actors. And, how can she live around the corner and not have seen this?

Posted by: guest at May 14, 2008 3:48 PM

I have always found that the best bargaining stategy for a potential buyer is to praise a property effusively and to prostrate oneself at the feet of the seller's broker.

Posted by: guest at May 14, 2008 3:49 PM

this is faker than the moon landing.

Posted by: z at May 14, 2008 3:57 PM

I watch Open House NYC on Sunday mornings and to my recollection, I don't think that anyone has ever purchased anything they've been shown. It does seem fake...now that I think of it.

Posted by: faithful at May 14, 2008 4:02 PM

She really does live on 1st place. I went to an open house for her apartment in February, which has been on the market since the fall and is still on the market. I've also seen her on that street yelling about her house not selling. It's a lovely apartment by the way. Her broker for the sale at the time (she's switched)is the same one for 45 3rd so perhaps that is why she was chosen to go on the show (promote two of the same broker's listings).

Posted by: guest at May 14, 2008 4:08 PM

Wow, NBC should win an editing award for all the contortions they had to go through to eliminate the crapitude of this house from view.
If she acts like that to a broker, imagine the love she's giving to her dry cleaner.

Posted by: guest at May 14, 2008 4:31 PM

Where does one find a woman who does housework in a black dress?

Forget it, I don't want to know.

Posted by: guest at May 14, 2008 4:37 PM

Place does look good inside and the front is Beautiful. This should have been posted weeks ago wake up.

Posted by: guest at May 14, 2008 4:58 PM

Is her place 31 1st place? There's three units for sale there - wonder if there's any particular reason they're all getting out.

Posted by: guest at May 14, 2008 4:59 PM

I am the one who doesn't find the exterior of this building SO atrocious, but I have to say the interiors are FAR more horrible than they seemed in the photos. Completely awkward layout with cramped kitchen, small bedrooms - really a terrible deal for the money. No wonder these aren't selling. That woman is truly the most annoying person I have ever seen. She was obviously VERY nervous, and thought was coming across as a big, lively TV personality, when in fact she comes across as an abolute nimrod.

Posted by: guest at May 14, 2008 6:07 PM

look at the light in here
the light is great in here
this light is great here

she's an actor...memorized her lines 3 different ways! good job mary!

Posted by: guest at May 14, 2008 6:24 PM

If a broker hugged and held hands with my wife I would fire his sorry little a in a second.

Posted by: guest at May 14, 2008 7:05 PM

they went from one add on the top building to another. in HD!

Posted by: guest at May 14, 2008 7:42 PM

fake, fake, fake.

Posted by: guest at May 14, 2008 10:34 PM

"If a broker hugged and held hands with my wife I would fire his sorry little a in a second."

My thoughts exactly and I'm a broker.

Posted by: guest at May 14, 2008 10:52 PM

cocaine is one powerful drug.

Posted by: guest at May 15, 2008 1:01 AM

television is one powerful drug.

Posted by: guest at May 15, 2008 6:53 AM

I know this woman personally. She IS an actor, literally.

Posted by: guest at May 15, 2008 7:39 AM

4:59--yes, 31 1st Place. Not sure what the deal is with the building. The maintenance is on the high side, maybe that is the problem.

Posted by: guest at May 15, 2008 10:37 AM

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