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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


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  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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).

  4. 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.

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