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
“Wow! How horrible! Having to take the “regular” bus with “regular” people.”
Way to take something out of context. I’m emphasizing the disadvantage of living 5 long blocks + 3 short blocks from a subway plus the dismal experience of looking at the BQE trench each morning. “Regular” was a comment on the difference between the tiffany place bus – which is free and frequently cited as a (dubious) advantage – and the normal bus, not a comment on the people.
Geez posters to this site have a hair trigger over-reaction to the slightest possibility of elitism. Ironic, when everyone visits here to gloat over 1m+ brownstones. An amount for housing unthinkable in 98% of america.
1:14 PM: My understanding is they bought it in early 2006, did a full “cosmetic” reno and are now selling it. It’s empty and there are new appliances, windows, floors, etc.
Wow! How horrible! Having to take the “regular” bus with “regular” people. It comes every 10 minutes during rush hour and gets to Jay Street verey quickly. That said, this area is a long walk from the subway and I agree about the noise.
I lived on tiffany place for six months and the area sucks. The noise from the BQE is a steady thrum and the dust from the exhaust coats everything unless you seal yourself up. There are no “1m++ condos”, there is a new block (with water views) that is struggling to find buyers and that is on tiffany place which is about the nicest street in the area. Columbia is a mess with trucks that take it regularly (buildings actually vibrate when they hit the bumps). Trucks also get stuck in the area and that leads to cascades of car horns.
The transport is a rush hour minibus that is only open to a couple of condo buildings on tiffany, otherwise you’re waiting for regular buses or walking across the BQE and able to phone in a traffic report to 1010wins.
Any waterfront park is a distant dream, right now it is still firmly and actively industrial. Anyway, if you believe in waterfront development down there, go take your 1m+ and spend it on columbia without some old guy holding grimly onto your 3rd floor for pocket change.
Listen – rent control is not always so bad. I bought a building on Summit Street on the “good” side of the BQE about one year ago. As far as I’m concerned I got the better end of the deal. I have never heard a sound from her, she takes the garbage in and out, cleans the hallway, and collects all the packages. She only pays $325 but I’m happy to have her and I got the building for a much reduced price.
Yet another example of why Rent Control and Rent stabilization lead to hoarding of apartment space in NYC and the controls need to go, and let market rates prevail.
While I’m sure the 82 year old is quite happy occupying an entire floor of a building for only $360 per month, that unit could house an entire family.
There should be programs that provide rent subsidies for low income people, regardless of age. I would much rather see the money spent on keeping the temporary rent regulations that were enacted during World War, be spent instead on a subsidy.
The current systems, which only rewards people for being luck enough to have rented an apartment ages ago, and then never moving, regardless of their current number of dependents.
I dont think this is on the wrong side of the BQE. There’s alot happening on Columbia street and its a very easy bus ride to borough hall. Plus, this area will look very different in years to come when the waterfront park is built.
I dont think this is on the wrong side of the BQE. There’s alot happening on Columbia street and its a very easy bus ride to borough hall. Plus, this area will look very different in years to come when the waterfront park is built.
If, indeed, all the apartments are rentals, then this was likely bought a few years ago by a flipper as investment property who is now trying to make a huge profit. Any house with a rent-controlled or rent-stabilized tenant is a significant liability, and I would factor the cost of buying them a new condo in the neighborhood as part of the purchase price. So, add another $400,000 at least to this, not to mention the trouble. A realtor from one of the big firms (not Corcoron) recently appraised our 4-story CG house at 1.6 or “maybe” 1.7. It’s only 20 feet wide, but on a place block, already duplexed with 2 rentals, and delivered vacant. I think that was a more realistic appraisal given the market, and the crazy sky high prices you see aren’t selling, or are selling for significantly less.