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
Let me end this discussion here by making the final call. Once and for all (and this applies to all future and past occurances of this debate): Park Slope is the BEST neighborhood that they have come up with. It cannot be beat, mathmatically or otherwise. West Village? No! Chelsea? No! Nolita? No! Brooklyn Heights combined with Cobble Hill, Carol Gardens, Fort Greene, Clinton Hill ganged up together? Still, No! No Way. They cannot do better than Park Slope. That’s why the movie stars come. That’s why the writers come. That’s why all the money people come. That’s why all the cool people come. That’s why all teh beautiful people come Life is better there. The air is better. Everything is better there. It’s is simply the best there is. You can’t do better.
Let this be the final word.
I actually chose Carroll Gardens over Park Slope. I could afford either but I chose Carroll Gardens. Yes, the park is nice and the botanical gardens is nice and the green market is nice, but the fact is, I get to all these places about as often as I did when I lived in Center Slope.
My main beef with Carroll Gardens is the ugliness of most of the houses. Where did all of the cornices go? What happened to all of the exterior detail? Nearly every brownstone in CG has been picked clean of any ornamentation and reduced to a bland, brown box.
At least this one has a cornice. Perhaps that explains the crackpipe price?
I use to like Park Slope like 7 years ago but tdoay I am not feeling it so much.. I do think it is a beautiful area but it feels too much like a scaled down version of the UWS. I rather live in Great Neck LI before moving back to PS… I miss the edge of the area…
“With the gazillion condos that will be hitting the market in Park Slope they might be hard up for residents pretty soon.”
which would those be?
if you mean the ones on 4th avenue…novo, crest and argyle…all are at least 60% sold.
other than that, not sure where they are building gazillions of condos in park slope.
What do you all think about this place? Pretty sweet & reasonably priced. I’m thinking of making an offer at ASK.
http://www.prudentialelliman.com/913331
I guess that would be true about Carroll Gardens as well.
“The only reasons someone would go out of their way to say a nice neighborhood like Park Slope sucks are:
1. Jealousy
2. Jealousy
3. Jealousy”
With the gazillion condos that will be hitting the market in Park Slope they might be hard up for residents pretty soon.
It is perhaps the most convenient by car to manhattan than any other brownstone brooklyn neighborhood.