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
I think that’s fine, 3:41.
It seems quite apparent that demand to live in Park Slope far outweighs the supply.
So it’s actually better at this point to appreciate the neighborhood without wanting to live there.
I don’t think Park Slope is hard up for residents.
What is it about Carroll Gardens that makes all the Park Slope cheer leader hooligans come out. Are they that threatened by Carroll Gardens?
The fact that park slopers list their recycling record as a reason to live there is perfect example of why so many of us would never want to live there.
3:33 – um, the Battery tunnel is great if you are going to Wall Street. Fine if you work down there, but otherwise getting to most of Manhattan from CG is still a moderate to very long (depending on traffic) trek. Commute times “to Manhattan” are always misleading. I work in Midtown and it take me a solid 30-40 minutes to get to work on the express train from Borough Hall. And I’m a middle income worker drone who accepts long commutes as his lot in life. My guess is that the people looking for $3.5 million dollar homes are not going to think that CG is convenient to Manhattan.
Why does every posting inevitably end up about a fight about whose neighboorhood is best. You never hear that about Manhattan neighborhoods. Is it because we all suffer inferiority complexes about us not living in Manhattan. Why the need to always defend our choices. Why can’t we all get along (in Brooklyn).
People speak with their wallets.
And if you do a search on Corcoran for brownstones for sale in Park Slope, you’ll see there are literally NONE for sale.
NONE.
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
Appreciating the beauty of a neighb is very different from wanting to live there. Clinton Hill is beautiful, but I don’t want to live there.
In my opinion, it’s not a matter of taste regarding PS versus CG. It’s really a matter of Price. People tend to say, “I don’t like it because it’s not my taste” when it comes to an area that is beyond their wallet (or purse).
BUT, if the price was the same, they would have chosen PS over CG. So forget about taste. It’s price. CG is less expensive and therefore ppl will say “I don’t like PS, I like CG because it has blah blah blah.” What they really mean is that they can’t afford PS and therefore don’t like it.
Nuthin wrong with dat.