House of the Day: 44 1st Place
The four-story house at 44 1st Place may indeed be one of the “Grand Dames” of Carroll Gardens, as the listing claims, but is it the house to break the $1,000 a foot barrier in Carroll Gardens it’s looking like a big stretch to us. It’s hard not to get excited by the parlor floor…
The four-story house at 44 1st Place may indeed be one of the “Grand Dames” of Carroll Gardens, as the listing claims, but is it the house to break the $1,000 a foot barrier in Carroll Gardens it’s looking like a big stretch to us. It’s hard not to get excited by the parlor floor detail but some of the other finishes (the ground-floor kitchen, for example) leave us a little limp. Seems that to get anywhere close to the asking price of $3,842,500 this place would have to be absolute perfection throughout, which it’s clearly not. More power them if they can get this price but we think they’re off by a good million bucks.
44 1st Place [Douglas Elliman] GMAP P*Shark
I’m in the market too and live on the upper west side and would never move to Park Slope. Just too much like the upper west side, which is what I am trying to get away from. The place on 3rd street is nice but I would never want to live there. Would not really want to live on the First Place street house either, but if it were between living in Carroll Gardens or Park Slope I would choose Carroll Gardens with out a doubt. It is just sooo much cooler than Park Slope. My girl friend lives in Carroll Gardens and I can take a car service through the Battery Tunnel and be in Manhattan in less than ten minutes. This is important to me because sometimes I get home late and leave early and shortening my commute is a perk of Carroll Gardens that I just can’t place money on. I love all the restaurants and shops on Smith and Court and the fact that there are still a few mom and pop restaurants, butchers and bakers that have been around for decades in Carroll Gardens give it so much more character than Park Slope. Park Slope, like I already said, has just turned into the upper west side. Really the only advantage that Park Slope has is the park and the fact is, if you live near 5th avenue, which is the cooler part of the slope, the walk to the park is far enough that you are as likely to go to the park as often as someone from Carroll Gardens. Park Slope has some nice things, but Carroll Gardens is so much more alluring to me. I also like Fort Green and Clinton Hill a lot.
^ I read a study that had researched the percentages of people who believed they would be upper class or were in the upper class bracket but clearly were not and never would be unless they won the lottery or their house quadrupled in value over a 5 year period.
its pretty sad and most people are lie to themselves.
also this house is huge. The house I grew up in was 2500sqf and was way too big for 4 people . This is gigantic.
In American every working class grunt fools himself into believing he is part of the “middle class”. Everyone in the middle class thinks they are part of the upperclass, and those from the upper class think they are independently wealthy.
generous no way This part of Carroll Gardens blows anything you have in Park slope away hands down. Ugly on the outside i think you are nuts what are you looking for? get a life it’s all about lifestyle and carroll Gardens is full of it and it’s much closer to midtown that Park slope much closer
10:26 – Well, here I was fully prepared to bite myself when my butler silently appeared. He uttered “Allow me, sir,” and bit me the way only a trained professional can.
“I was wondering how long it was going to take some sloper to say “for that price, why wouldn’t you buy X in the slope?” It is as inevitable as night following day.”
I’m not some sloper. Don’t live in Brooklyn. Just in the market. And I know there’s a qualitative difference between this house and the one on 3rd, and between Carroll Gardens and Park Slope. Market comparisons, nothing more. And in this case, there is none. This house is overpriced by AT LEAST $1.5 million. I think Brownstoner is being too generous.
And I wonder why everyone complains about the slopers.
10:09
I think you can bite yourself, are you really middle class? think about it.
Or are you really hand-to-mouth?
You know the definition of the middle class, the bourgeoisie, it is the class that does not depend solely on their wages (like the proleteriat or working class) for a living. The middle class has investment income, rents, businesses. Are you really middle class or a wage peasant? or are you in denial? Can you not afford the suburbs? or are you really a rich guy pretending tobe one of the working masses?
Nope. I’m in the right place. Middle class. In Brooklyn. Park Slope actually. Bite me, 10:05. Happy Holidays!