House of the Day: 78 3rd Place
When did average-sized houses in Carroll Gardens start being worth over $3 million? Whenever it was, we didn’t get the memo. Last month, it was 44 1st Place, a generally attractive but inconsistent four-story house asking $3,842,500. (One reader wrote us a particularly nasty email about our stance on that post.) Now it’s 78 3rd…
When did average-sized houses in Carroll Gardens start being worth over $3 million? Whenever it was, we didn’t get the memo. Last month, it was 44 1st Place, a generally attractive but inconsistent four-story house asking $3,842,500. (One reader wrote us a particularly nasty email about our stance on that post.) Now it’s 78 3rd Place, a 3,100-square-foot, three-story brick that, while 23-feet-wide and full of charm, doesn’t feel like it’s worth quite $3,495,000. Are we just out of touch with the Carroll Gardens market or sellers overreaching?
78 3rd Place [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
Dancing girls with feathered asshats.
Thank you 4:04. a voice of balance and experience. But get read for the torrent of wburg-hating park slopers. Anyone who admits preferring williamsburg over other bkln neighbs is immediately attacked or simply dismissed as a loon.
I know about 10 people who are on their way out of Williamsburg because of all of the strollers invading the neighborhood.
I see no appeal other than the commute.
too bad williamsburg looks like bombed out beirut circa 1975.
4:04. I thought this had already been settled. It’s Park Slope, bro. Don’t try and push your whatever cause it’s already game over. It’s PARK SLOPE. Cue the music and the dancing girls.
I have lived in prospect heights, park slope, cobble hill and williamsburg. it’s true that PS and PH are further commutes no matter how you slice it. The F doesn’t have to go all the way downtown, so if you are going to midtown, it’s faster. it’s very easy to switch to the A from the F if you do need to go to wallstreet. also, cabs come down clinton in the morning, so i used to just hop in one and it was just under 15 minutes to soho.
historically, i thought that CH should be more expensive than PS because it’s closer and also a more totally pristine hood, and thought that parts of CG could be more than PS, but that they were comparable with CG having the edge of less commuting time and PS having the edge of the some very expensive brownstones. unlike CH, CG and PS both have crappy areas.
williamsburg, of course, is way closer to everything. it’s always 12 minutes home from work over the bridge in a cab. at this stage in my life with a kid, decided that proximity to my job and the best that manhattan (and brooklyn) has to offer is most important – can get to midtown and uptown consistently quickly. with a car, on the BQE to anywhere in brooklyn or queens in under 20 minutes. overall, i want my daughter to have the option to attend the best schools in manhattan and go to all the musuems, shows, plays, events, whatever without it taking 50 minutes to an hour.
Once again a thread has about another neighborhood has turned into one about Park Slope.
Those condos are bought by investors who mostly bought back in 2006. It will interesting to see what happens when the investors try to unload them.
3:41 – arrghhh. this drives me crazy. I bought in CG and I looked in Park Slope (southern part) because I thought it would be cheaper. When I found out it wasn’t, I hightailed it back to CG/CH because I like it so much better. WHY o WHY o WHO-O can you not accept this reality? Everyone else on this blog accepts that some people prefer other neighborhoods to theirs, but not the park slopers on this site. For them it’s always jealousy. It’s like you’re all zombies.