Condos of the Day: No Buyers for 45 Third Place
Justice continues to prevail in the case of the Carroll Gardens Atrocity. The addition is now complete and both the upper and lower duplexes, listed for $1,555,000 and $1,595,000 respectively, continue to sit on the market. If it weren’t for the butchery of the exterior and complete disregard for the community on the part of…
Justice continues to prevail in the case of the Carroll Gardens Atrocity. The addition is now complete and both the upper and lower duplexes, listed for $1,555,000 and $1,595,000 respectively, continue to sit on the market. If it weren’t for the butchery of the exterior and complete disregard for the community on the part of the developer, these things might be doing a little better, as the interiors look decent. Could it be that potential buyers are afraid of the social shunning that could happen if they vote with their wallets in favor of this place?
3rd Place Condo – Lower Duplex [Brown Harris Stevens]
3rd Place Condo – Upper Duplex [Brown Harris Stevens]
A Current Look at Third Place Horror Show [Brownstoner]
Price for CG Atrocity a “Fantasy” [Brownstoner] GMAP
Real Photos of Carroll Gardens Bastard [Brownstoner]
Carroll Gardens “Bastardization” Hits Market [Brownstoner]
CG Atrocity: There Goes the Neighborhood [Brownstoner]
A nice yellow clapboard(?) house on degraw or sackett between smith and court was just taken down. What’s going up? We all know it is going to be big and ugly and its developers are going to totally unapologetic. This is life in this neighborhood. Too many people with money but no class!
its the price not the design of the extension.
justin…i’m so interested to hear you use this phrase…
hotmess.
someone recently called me this, but i took it as a compliment.
my bad.
The hood is not landmarked. In a historic district–at least this is my understanding–LPC will not allow drastic changes to anything viewable from the street, front, side, or back.
Dunno who the architect is, but here’s the developer. Most of the other projects shown on the site don’t appear to involve additions, and the company showed some taste on the interior work. So maybe a few letters begging these people to never again ruin a historic building might be in order…
http://www.asrnllc.com/120th.htm
I toured this place out of morbid curiosity and nearly shat my pants in apoplexy at the quoted prices.
I told my wife, there wasn’t a chance in hell they would get those prices, and here, months later, I haven’t been proven wrong.
Sure, you could rent those places, because they’re spacious and in a great neighborhood. But what person in their right mind, with a $1.6MM budget, would say, “THIS is IT! My dream home!”
Also, the basement smelled moldy.
The image brings to mind a big, strong Doberman mounting a lovely, delicate Whippet. Just wrong on so many levels.
Yeah, we had a lot of fun last year outdoing one another with wildlife metaphors for this “hybrid” structure. Other than the “ain’t it awful” repeat of that exercise, I am guessing that this house/block wasn’t landmarked. OR is it because this addition does not affect the facade, this was approved?
Regarding the difficulty selling, I suspect that it is the price, taxes and quality and not the possibility of social ostracism. God, the pressure…
When say a 50 gallon hot water heater is a feature of your property you are in trouble.