Open House Picks: Houses
Carroll Gardens 56 2nd Place Vita Realty Sunday 2-4 $1,850,000 GMAP P*Shark Crown Heights 1094 Park Place Corcoran Sunday 1:30-3:30 $1,395,000 GMAP P*Shark Windsor Terrace 1609 11th Avenue Warren Lewis Sunday 2-4 $1,265,000 GMAP P*Shark Clinton Hill 76 Ryerson Street Fillmore Sunday 2-4 $1,250,000 GMAP P*Shark
Carroll Gardens
56 2nd Place
Vita Realty
Sunday 2-4
$1,850,000
GMAP P*Shark
Crown Heights
1094 Park Place
Corcoran
Sunday 1:30-3:30
$1,395,000
GMAP P*Shark
Windsor Terrace
1609 11th Avenue
Warren Lewis
Sunday 2-4
$1,265,000
GMAP P*Shark
Clinton Hill
76 Ryerson Street
Fillmore
Sunday 2-4
$1,250,000
GMAP P*Shark
Why are people so retarded? They actually go around thinking they can buy a house in Brooklyn for under $1 million or a little over, AND have the following:
1. fabulous amenities
2. fabulous public schools
3. no crime whatsoever
#3 doesn’t exist anywhere, and if you have #1 and #2 you have Park Slope and as everyone knows, you’re talking about paying $2.5 million on upwards for a house in Park Slope. If it’s in PS 321 try $3.5 million on up. If you DO have that kind of money, sure, go ahead and declare you’d never lower yourself buy in Crown Heights, PLG, Bed Stuy. You have the right to do so. But since I’d bet good money none of you have that kind of money, shut up. Stop pretending to be the player you ain’t and stick to your teeny tiny coop apartment if you even have that. It’s all you can afford in your “better” neighborhoods for $600,000 to 1 million.
As for the moron who said Crown Heights had more crime than areas outside of NYC – surely you’re not saying per capita, right? Brooklyn is the most densely populated borough. Per capita, the crime here is NOTHING compared to other cities around the USA. Read all the news articles about it this year. Don’t know how you missed that. I’ve lived in Atlanta and Minneapolis before and I was way way more wary of walking through those streets at night than I am anywhere in Brooklyn. Except I dunno, Brownsville or way East Flatbush. But those places are NOT Crown Heights. Go to those places first and then and only then judge Crown Heights.
It’s not even worth responding to brokers. Plus, they can be so goddamn annoying at open houses. Too bad we can’t just replace them with robots, or houseplants.
10:30pm — I live in Carroll Gardens and love the neighborhood, but poster above is correct, the price matters. I have noticed that one person constantly posts these over the top Carroll Gardens posts about how great it is (at least, anytime there’s a CG mention, a post like 10:30’s goes up). It’s really tiresome. I’m also pleased at how much my property value has increased in the last 5 years, but these kind of posts that offer no reasonable opinion, but simply a knee-jerk reaction to the neighborhood, do more harm than good. The Carroll Gardens house here is overpriced, period. This is now the 4th open house at least. If it was such a steal, someone would have grabbed it up immediately.
10:30 – BROKER ALERT! BROKER ALERT!
“Carroll Gardens no matter what these days is a buy if you want to make money”
What an idiot.
Doesn’t the price matter?
carroll gardens is great. when i first saw that listing in NYTimes, I thought it was a steal. Then I learned it’s in crappy condition and 2 bowling lanes across.
Nostalgic on Park Ave, thanks for your kind words, as always. We at CHNA are putting together an archive of recollections of people who grew up in Crown Heights. Your memories would be a wonderful addition to this archive. I would love to be able to get in touch with you, and talk about this further, as well as hear more stories about the area. If you would, please contact me. My address is montrosemorrisATyahooDOTcom. Thank you for your attention, and please continue to write on this blog whenever a notable CH house shows up. Your memories are so interesting, and provide a great window to a not so distant past.
carroll Gardens no matter what these days is a buy if you want to make money. Wake up people The buyers want good areas and this is one of them.
7:04 sounds like a broker or an owner in CH. I agree that it will probably go to a developer – no family owner would want to touch it I suspect. But as for the person who implied that developers are all over Bklyn these days (since I asked if a developer would take this on in this market), my point was precisely that there are already *so* many developers who are mid-construction since they all started projects when were riding the recent boom. Now that things are starting to soften (and might soften significantly in the near/mid-term future), will developers really bite, since there are a lot of new condos on the market – and honestly, I doubt you get turn this into the rare kind of “old, pre-war charm” kind of condo that would set this bldg apart from all those other new developments. The building is in too crummy shape, too chopped up, to recoup that kind of brownstone charm buyers in these neighborhoods tend to like.
Don’t know how a developer buys the Carroll Gardens house unless he plans to duplex the apartments. Is anyone going to buy a single floor? They are very small apartments.
This seems like a buy for someone who has alot of cash and likes the location and garage (two huge selling points). You have to totally gut it and turn it into a 1 family, or maybe a triplex with garden rental. I’ve seen some of those narrower houses work that way, but to do that to this one would definitely require a complete gut renovation. I guess the good news is that there are no nice details to save here anyway. But the final results could be nice and modern. Oh yes, the other big drawback is that there’s no yard. You could build a deck, however. Do people pay a premium for a garage even it means they have no garden?