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
2:52 – there are so many houses for sale for less than 1.2 in the streets in CG btw hoyt and bond – actually the loveliest blocks treelined, pretty houses, no traffic plus they have parking! Lots of old old-timers live on these blocks and when they die (sorry to be so horrible) their staten isle/LI/NJ offspring sell them off. The houses are small, however, so in terms of price per square foot they are not particularly cheap. I had 3 on my block for sale although two of those appear to be sold, and the third has been done CG style – hideous brick facing and front gate etc etc so that everything would have to be torn out which is much more of a pain than just kind of starting from scratch. Invariably these houses are repped by small local agencies like irongate, awaye realty, brooklyn brownstone, etc. you just need to walk the streets. I would wait a couple of months and you can probably snap one up for 800k
I’m not defending the price, but. . .
To those who say the price should be no more than twice what a brownstone half the width goes for.
That’s probably not true.
The three or four supersized condos you could carve out of this place could probably be worth much more than twice what three or four shoebox-sized places you could get out of a 17 foot wide place.
That’s not Carroll Gardens.
Where’s the nativity scene?
2:01 why would they tear this house down? that would make no sense at all. They are putting in a new height limit and what would they put a cape cod style house. You make no sense. All you need to do is go into this home and develop it into condos or a beautiful 2 family. Do the people on this board understand real estate, or do you people come on this Blog because you are bored.
2:35 You bought a house for a million dollars a million dollars a block away from 2nd place, you must be on crack. If there are million dollar houses in CG please let me know i will buy 3 of them. Also if you folks are not aware of this the zoning limits that will pass thru the city council on july 24 will limit the height on these blocks to max of 55′ so the only extension will be in the back. I think the house on the outside is pretty nice.
I thought this block was part of the newly zoned area in carroll gardens? In any case, SUCH a crazy price as usual. I recently bought a house half this size for one million a block away and all the houses for sale in the area (that tend to be about 16 1/2 ft wide and need work) are selling for little more than a million. What in the world makes the seller and broker think they can get a million+ more for two of these properties? so CRAZY! and annoying.
This could be a teardown. The lot size is very desirable and the block has no landmark protection. I hope there is some provision in the new zoning that mandates new buildings align with the adjacent front facades.
Did the sister house to the left of the subject house de-skin itself back to the brick? It has the same window lintels but a brick facade, not brownstone. Weird.
Plus, no pediment, white vinyl windows and no pictures = developer’s special. Would a 17′ house (likely in need of gut reno) sell for $1.95MM? Methinks not. So the x2 math isn’t compelling unless your a developer.
This would be worth $3.9 million if it were in Carroll Gardens …
I live right down the street from this spot and walk by everyday. As usual for hood, way overpriced and will not sell for near asking. 24 2nd place (next door) sold last year for 2.5 mil, and is same exact size/condition. Not sure how a developer would recoup his/her expenses, given the renovation required, lengthy condo conversion process, etc.