House of the Day: 82 Carroll Street
This four-family on Carroll Street between Hicks and Columbia looks priced to sell at $1,349,000 even with one rent control tenant in place. It’s a 22-foot-wide brick with nice historic touches like wide pine plank floors and tin ceilings. Anyone been inside? Carroll Gardens Four Family [Brooklyn Bridge] GMAP P*Shark
This four-family on Carroll Street between Hicks and Columbia looks priced to sell at $1,349,000 even with one rent control tenant in place. It’s a 22-foot-wide brick with nice historic touches like wide pine plank floors and tin ceilings. Anyone been inside?
Carroll Gardens Four Family [Brooklyn Bridge] GMAP P*Shark
I have lived on both sides of the BQE and I for one would choose “the other side” any day over Carroll Gardens. The Columbia Street Waterfront, Carroll Gardens West, Red Hook or what ever you want to call it has so much more charm Carroll Gardens. The fact that it is located near the BQE has very little impact on sale price considering that some of the most expensive property in New York City is located on the FDR Drive, West Side Highway and BQE. And the coming waterfront park and greenway are in fact a reality.
I stand corrected. But please see Sylvia at 4:31. I may have been speaking more from experience and practice than the law.
And I was half-right on the issue of RS vs RC 🙂
My Mother In Law lives over there on President. True the BQE is an environmental disaster but the neighborhood has been pretty good to them over the last fifty years or so. Great mom and pops on Union a block away. And, someday the BQE will be covered as originally proposed (Moses had other uses for the money). In fact, that is part of Bloomberg-Davidoffs space seeking development strategy. The port industries are really pretty quiet compared to the BQE.
I believe that building had turnbuckles and a few cracks indicating some sort of structural compromise.
its a 22′ by 35′ – so 770sq ft. No matter what stats are for ‘Brooklyn’
– I would think that on open market rental in this area there would be few ‘families of 3.41’ interested in this amt of space. Only say that as an area resident and see who rents the floor-thru apts around here that become vacant. 25 years ago maybe different There maybe exceptions but in general thats what I see.
Statically, single person households are the exception in Brooklyn:
Of the 880,727 households in Brooklyn, 38.6% were married couples living together, 22.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 33.7% were non-families. 33.3% had children under the age of 18 living in them. Of all households 27.8% are made up of individuals and 9.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.75 and the average family size was 3.41.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn
boredatwork: it is definitely illegal to discriminate against a family as opposed to a single person when renting out an apartment.
that said. it’s well-nigh impossible to prove discrimination unless the owner posts an ad that says: “kids not welcome” in the ny times real estate pages. so discrimination against families is alive and well in nyc.
Anon 4:09: if floorthroughs in 22-ft wide houses aren’t big enough for a family, then where are families supposed to live? in duplexes? do you know many families, even with 2 incomes, that can afford to rent out two whole floors of a house?
Sounds like the beginning of the movie “Duplex.”
This area is interesting, but ot very appealing in terms of amenities, convenience and with the bqe noise and pollution. I would definitely consider it Red Hook. Also, it’s very overpriced for what you’re getting in terms of sf and location. Of course, it only takes 1 sucker…
yikes, I only meant when I said doubt would rent to ‘family’ wasn’t about families not wanted… It was reference that this single old rent-control person was occupying huge space alone that could be housing a whole family. Space isn’t that large — and that most ‘families’ would not consider it large enough… nor would most landlords want to rent to more that 2 people something of this size (one floor thru in average size house).