House of the Day: 28 2nd Place
This brownstone at 28 2nd Place in Carroll Gardens is a bit unusual. It’s 34 feet (and four windows) wide, double the width of many houses. As a result, the three-story house is almost 5,000 square feet and has another 3,300 square feet of air rights. From the looks of the exterior, this’ll need some…
This brownstone at 28 2nd Place in Carroll Gardens is a bit unusual. It’s 34 feet (and four windows) wide, double the width of many houses. As a result, the three-story house is almost 5,000 square feet and has another 3,300 square feet of air rights. From the looks of the exterior, this’ll need some work. The asking price of $3,900,000 suggests the seller thinks the likely buyer is a developer who will slap some ugly addition onto the roof. Hopefully, any such developer will remember the lesson of the Carroll Gardens atrocity on 3rd Place before heading down such a path.
28 2nd Place [Irongate] GMAP P*Shark
Photo by Kate Leonova for Property Shark
5:33, gotta disagree with you about Cobble Hill, while it is a relatively new “made up” name, it has been around for at least thirty years. As far as the NYC Department of buildings calling this area Gowanus, I can’t find any record of that, but I’m a computer novice. Could you direct me to a site run by NYC that deliniates specific neighborhoods? I kind of hope that it is Gowanus, I collect Gowanus memorabila and have quite a fondness for the canal, so I’m quite happy here in “toxic land”.
It’s ironic that you’re telling people to grow up right after making snide comments about age, smoking the pipe etc. (assuming that you are the same poster)
Maybe you should follow a little of your own advice?
3:23 – you clearly are unfamiliar with CG as well as so-called “Gowanus.” You are right that I am not a block away – was thinking 2nd street not 2nd place, but I have lived in CG for 10 years and the blocks btw hoyt and bond are absolutely carroll gardens, no matter what the efforts of developers – or I don’t know who – to try to glom them into this new gowanus designation. These blocks are two blocks from the carroll/president stop, they are consistent with the architectural style and the historical population of CG and everything and everyone on those blocks are, and always have been, oriented towards court/smith/carroll park, etc.
I don’t even know why I’m responding to you, it is clear from your writing that you are practically illiterate.
All i am saying is it’s not Carroll Gardens that’s all if you bought back then then you should sell and Move to Florida because it’s time if you know what i Mean. BTW the Area Of Hoyt to Bond is called Gowanas according to the Nyc Dpt of Buildings. Also when you bought back then it was all called south brooklyn there wasn’t even a Cobble Hill. So grow up.
I’m between Hoyt and Bond, and when I bought, every real estate agent I dealt with called this area Carroll Gardens. In fact, in 1995, there was no neighborhood called Gowanus.
I’ve never heard of a real estate agent who refers to the area between Hoyt and Bond as “Gowanus”, why would they, it makes for a tougher sale.
The cities idea of the historic district of Carroll Gardens is very small, is that your definition of Carroll Gardens? Because according to the signs, that’s only from Union to Second Street and from Smith to Hoyt.
Seriously 4:38, what’s the matter? Of COURSE it’s Carroll Gardens.
4:38
what?
are you trying to convey a thought of some kind?
I could be wrong, but it looks to me as though this was originally two houses combined into one. The neighboring houses all are 2 windows wide, so I think these are 2 houses made into one.
Does not matter what some Old guy thinks his Block is called it is whatever the Real Estate agents say. Or the City and they call Gowanas not BoCoCa. Sorry to tell you.
Of course this is Carroll Gardens.
2nd Place is as Carroll Gardens as homemade ravioli.