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 am the person who wrote what Mr. B refers to as “a nasty note” and there was nothing nasty about my note. He made a judgement call on the 1rst place building being overpriced assuming the building was 4000 sq. ft… When Mr. B then learned that the building was well over 5000 sq. ft. bringing the price per sq. ft. down to $700 he did not change his view that the building was overpriced and I found that surprising.
This building, on the other hand is priced at well over $1000 per sq. ft., which does seem ridiculous
Park Slope sucks!!!
You’d have to be spawned from Satan to not like Park Slope.
Or at least appreciate its beauty.
Oh my god – here we go. Why is it whenever these threads descend into park slope cheering session, there is always a celebrity sighting thrown in? I’m afraid to say that the more park slopers defend their neighborhood, the more they demonstrate that je ne said quoi that makes the neighborhood so insufferable to the rest of us.
And Park Slope recycles more waste than ANY NEIGHBORHOOD IN NYC!!!
I personally think that’s impressive.
To the person who said it takes much too long for someone to drive into manhattan in their car for a nail appointment. It is two minutes to the battery tunnel and 10 minutes or less to get into Manhattan.
3:26 – it doesn’t affect prices, I’m just saying that the comment the person made about expecting to pay more for Carroll Gardens is not “the most idiotic thing” anyone’s ever said, it’s a simple lack of knowledge combined with a personal preference.
and by the way – it is not ignorance that makes people not like park slope it’s something called taste (as in, “everyone has different …”). Park slopers are so defensive about the fact that there are people in the world who don’t like the neighborhood – just like there are people who don’t like the upper west or east side, or any other neighborhood. It’s not a personal attack on you…
Not only is there the park, but there is also the Botanic Garden which is actually much more beautiful than the park; the best famers’ market in NYC other than Union Square; and the best food co-op in the world!
3:26….That is exactly how I feel every time I go home!!!!
BTW, I just saw Susan Sarandon coming out of the Ozzie’s on 7th and Lincoln.