Carroll Gardens "Bastardization" Hits Market
When we wrote about 45 3rd Place last Spring as it was still under construction, we had this to say: “The addition to this house has to be one of the greatest bastardizations of a beautiful old brownstone we’ve ever seen.” (Click on the link below to see the photo from last April.) While some…

When we wrote about 45 3rd Place last Spring as it was still under construction, we had this to say: “The addition to this house has to be one of the greatest bastardizations of a beautiful old brownstone we’ve ever seen.” (Click on the link below to see the photo from last April.) While some readers leapt to its defense, others chimed in with such comments as “jaw-droppingly horrendous” and “cancerous growth”. Now the sucker is on the market. It appears to have been divided into two units, both two floors and approximately 2,000 square feet. They share the parking garage that sits were the garden once was. The lower unit is asking $1.45 million and interested parties as well as architectural critics can check it out at the open house on Sunday from 12 to 2 o’clock.
45 Third Place [Landmark Properties] GMAP
CG Atrocity: There Goes the Neighborhood [Brownstoner]
The upside to European women is that even the hot ones are open to dating less attractive males.
If a group of Swedish au pairs moved in, I’d be happy to join them!
Well, there was a prob a lot of unused FAR on the lot, right? A fact which bstoner points out in practically every house of the day. How many ways can you have it, people?
That is the a most awful thing to do to a beautiful house. What a shame! I weep.
Any chance you can snap a photo and email it to us?
Will snap a shot tonight and submit it…
Yeah. Butt ugly.
I went past it last week. Ugly, ugly, ugly! Let me repeat that: Ugly, ugly ugly! And fugly.
a rendering of my rear-end would look funny, but a photo of it would make you folks sick . . . same goes with this house!
Anytime a “rendering” is used in an advertisement when a project is finished, the only possible reason is that the finished product looks terrible.
Anybody who claims they like the building since the like the drawing is nuts.
An actual photo would be nice. Where is LPC when you need them? I thought they were coming back into Brooklyn in a big way. Nothing you can do now.