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
5:56, they didn’t just say they preferred CG/CH to PS. They also said they liked it more and others should like it more because it is closer to Manhattan. That is nonsense as the comments about N and Q trains make clear.
Caroll Gardens may be NICE, but it’s NOT $3.5 million nice–are you serious?? That is the issue here. That is what people are debating.
This tiny and non-descript house is asking $200K MORE than the perfectly renovated house at 270 Berkeley in the Slope that just sold and was 5 stories and 5000 sq. ft.
It is also asking $500K MORE than 30 South Portland, another 5-story 5000+ sq ft beauty on a gorgeous block in a great neighborhood.
There is no way to justify the price on this Carroll Gardens house. Unless, of course, you are telling me that there is a major typo and the house is indeed in Brooklyn Heights.
I just saw Brad Pitt walking down 5th avenue wearing an “I Love Park Slope” T-shirt.
It’s not just my Park Slope ego that’s inflated. This internecine Brooklyn flamewar is totally turning me on. Anybody wanna meet at Hotel le Blue?
How could such a large neighborhood be so insecure?
5:59 if you could read you would see that 5:56 didn’t say that more people prefer Park Slope. He said that he preferred Carroll Gardens.
if more people preferred carroll gardens over park slope, as you say 5:56, the prices would reflect that.
they do not, however.
park slope is a more expensive neighborhoos than carroll gardens.
also much larger.
Small, mediocre house in a nice neighborhood–NOT worth anywhere near $3.5 million. RIDICULOUS. This house wouldn’t sell for that price in the Heights or in Park Slope–that’s why people are bringing up those nabes. Sorry!
If you wanna see something large scale you might take a gander at your inflated Park Slope ego.