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
If a Manhattan mogul type bought this house -it is very convenient to the BB tunnel, one could be in Manhattan in minutes, they would not want to keep two rental units over their heads. And besides, to properly rehab the house it needs to be empty to allow the contractors to do their thing for eight to ten months.
If the renters are protected in any way from eviction, then all bets are off. Although in reality, in Brooklyn, every tenant is protected from eviction if they really want to make a fuss.
it is in the very nicest part of CG. Very convenient to Manhattan by car. The interior looks to be better preserved than the facade. So for another half a million to 700,000 dollars one could have a really magnificent showplace. Is this much money justified in this neigborhhod? probably not, but who knows? None other than the famous John Zuccotti of real estate fame lives nearby I think. There are moguls in the area but they keep a very low profile.
Well the kitchen may not be your taste, but who can argue with astroturf on the patio?
Sign me up!
The audacity of hope! Or is it the soft bigotry of low expectations.
“Perhaps someone will pay close to $3 million if money is no object.”
Money is ALWAYS an object.
This is very expensive for the neighborhood, and I doubt they will get this high of a price. That being said, however, if real estate is about location, location, location, this is really one of the best blocks to live in all of Carroll Gardens (despite 1:54’s denigration of the neighborhood). Arguably one of the nicest blocks in all of Brooklyn, if you like the CG amenities and don’t mind not having Prospect Park nearby.
Also, there’s something great about the 25 foot wide brownstones — It allows you to get so much more out of the layout. For example, you can use the lower duplex and get a real 3-bedroom out of it, with a huge living space. The 20-ft wide homes just don’t quite work that well. And, if this is bought by an investment banking type, it’s very easy to triplex it and create a large 2-bedroom garden rental.
The price is still a big stretch, but there aren’t that many homes of this size and location. Perhaps someone will pay close to $3 million if money is no object.
Worth the price only if the house carved from a single giant rock of crack.
Incidentally the building is only 24 feet wide – I just confirmed that on the deed dated 8/26/93 on Acris.
So if the width is 24 and the length is 42 feet with a 14″ extension on floors 1 & 2, then I get a sq footage of 4,704 (2 x 56 x 24 + 2 x 42 x 24) which is $817 per sq ft (for the original depth look at the basement length which is the original build of the structure).
And at $817 psf it’s still bloody expensive and seemingly overpriced.
thr-thr-three million ei-ei-eight hundred thousand dollars?
How could that be?
This house isn’t even, you know, attractive.
The facade has been stripped of all detail including the cornice and the front garden looks like crap. The ironwork is right out of Pink Flamingoes.