House of the Day: 72 2nd Place
This five-story brownstone at 72 2nd Place in Carroll Gardens was on the market last year with Corcoran with a price tag of $2,350,000; it didn’t sell back then and is now listed with another broker at the inexplicably higher price of $2,499,000. The location and scale of this place are great, but most new…
This five-story brownstone at 72 2nd Place in Carroll Gardens was on the market last year with Corcoran with a price tag of $2,350,000; it didn’t sell back then and is now listed with another broker at the inexplicably higher price of $2,499,000. The location and scale of this place are great, but most new owners are going to end up sinking quite a bit of cash bringing the interiors back from the dead.
72 2nd Place [David West Properties] GMAP P*Shark
LOL, Pigeon. I think the look of the deep front gardens is very nice. My choice was more pragmatic. I wasn’t going to BBQ and entertain in a large front yard.
HEY SNARK!!
It seems clear that, in general, brownstone owners would likely be happy to forfeit some front yard for a larger backyard — that is only practical, as a backyard is of more use.
But am I the only one who, when walking down a large frontyard Carroll Gardens block, feels that something is wrong aesthetically? Like those large front yards are out of place.
Or, am I an aesthetic freak?
Bkny,
Don’t ask.
“Most women would probably prefer more “frontyard” and less “backyard,” DIBS
really? why?
i am a womman and would much prefer a backyard
commercial bldgs like this require 40% or 50% down or even more?
I’ll second CGar’s preference for a large rear. (Garden of course, get your minds out of the gutter.)
For sale since at least April 2008 is it? Well, I see a bidding war in this house’s future! $3 million easy. In fact, I think Goldman Sachs bonus money will snap this house up. Actually, I bet the bidding war will be between a GS trader and a GS banker, and if the Times article last week is to be believed, the trader will win. (OK, so I wouldn’t pay over $1.2 given the incredible amount of work needed to be done, the RC tenant, and the 2nd Floor tenant whose apartment will have to be pried out of his/her cold dead hands.)
BTW, Pigeon – and I hate to disagree with Minard – when I bought in CG in 1996, I consciously chose a house with a large rear garden and not one of the so-called “Place” houses with the large front gardens.
“It’s all about location!” is brokerspeak for “The house itself is a piece of crap.”
The deep front yards is what makes the area so special and gives it a unique character. I have never heard of anyone disliking them.