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
3:36 – Hate to tell you. Those folks that have lived between Hoyt and Bond call it Carroll Gardens and have lived there before you were born and this Gowanus thing is product of your newbie imagination.
3:23 you are a clown. You know nothing about RE
Guest 3:57
Taking this down (assuming it is vacant) would cost next to nothing. Do you really believe the height limit protects these houses?
I disagree with you.
Sam i hate to tell you but if you don’t know ill let you in on a secret all you need to do is throw up some sheetrock after updating electric and plumbing and you are done. Taking this down would cost much more. There is nobody taking this down after the new height limit on the 24th.
It looks to me as if this row of houses were all brick originally but the one in question was stuccoed at some point, probably when the cornice was removed. I hope it is restored by the new owner, but since it is not in an historic district there is nothing to stop a developer from tearing it down and building a new house or condo building. New construction is much easier to cost out and execute. Rehabbing an old building can be complicated and the costs are hard to pin down due to unforseen discoveries during the renovation.
3:34, lighten up. it’s called humor.
3:23 I hate to tell you but Hoyt and bond is not carroll Gardens the cutoff is Hoyt. If that is Carroll gardens i guess it’s park slope to. You said you were a Block away from 2nd Place where this house is. I think not you are smoking the Pipe way to much. This house is near henry street and Is in Carroll Gardens you on the other hand are In Gowanas and you are near toxic Land. Do you see the Difference? If you can then good. if not go see a Eye specialist after you stop by the Real estate office to see why your Property is not as much as this one.
2:57 and 3:28, that’s not funny. I’m not one to wear religion on my sleeve or display it in my front garden, but still. Don’t be bigots.
2:57 – not to worry, the brick building next door has the requisite painted concrete Jesus on full display.