Open House Picks
Carroll Gardens 415 Sackett Street Douglas Elliman *****CANCELLED***** $2,250,000 GMAP P*Shark Prospect Heights 287 Park Place Corcoran Sunday 2-4 $2,195,000 GMAP P*Shark Fort Greene 305 Cumberland Street Brown Harris Stevens Sunday 1-3 $1,995,000 GMAP P*Shark Clinton Hill 186 Washington Avenue Aguayo & Huebener Sunday 12-4 $1,739,000 GMAP P*Shark
Carroll Gardens
415 Sackett Street
Douglas Elliman
*****CANCELLED*****
$2,250,000
GMAP P*Shark
Prospect Heights
287 Park Place
Corcoran
Sunday 2-4
$2,195,000
GMAP P*Shark
Fort Greene
305 Cumberland Street
Brown Harris Stevens
Sunday 1-3
$1,995,000
GMAP P*Shark
Clinton Hill
186 Washington Avenue
Aguayo & Huebener
Sunday 12-4
$1,739,000
GMAP P*Shark
Brownstone for well under a million:
http://www.corcoran.com/property/listing.aspx?Region=NYC&ListingID=1113061
Park slope is Family Oriented but the comments make no sense. Park slope , Caroll Gardens , Cobble Hill and Bklyn Heights are the best Brooklyn has to offer. How can Anyone say Smith street is not wonderful is beyond me. Whatever !
for you, 7:40…check the date honeypie…2008!!!
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Tough Times at Marco Polo in Carroll Gardens
There are not happy times at Carroll Gardens’ Marco Polo restaurant on Court Street. The restaurant’s owner, Joseph (Marco Polo) Chirico, was caught up in the Gambino crime family busts last week. The 63-year-old restaurant owner, who is a friend of many of Brooklyn’s top public officials, including Borough President Marty Markowitz, was arraigned yesterday and released on $1 million bond. From the Post:
Chirico – freed on bond after putting up his Staten Island mansion as collateral – is accused of collecting $1,500 that was extorted from trucking-company executive Joseph Vollaro on behalf of fellow Gambino soldier Jerome Brancato. Vollaro – now in protective custody – wore a wire for three years to gather evidence against the Gambinos for authorities…The Italian immigrant’s involvement in the case has stunned Brooklynites – among them judges, politicians and civic leaders who have frequented his eateries.
And a taste of the Daily News coverage:
But Chirico will be able to go back to work serving up gnocchi, capellini and other Italian fare at the restaurant he and his wife, Rosa, have run since 1983, said his lawyer, Joseph Benfante. “I guess we just can’t serve the ‘Godfather Special’ on Sunday anymore,” Benfante joked.
The lawyer maintained that Chirico was caught in the fed’s net only because he did a favor he shouldn’t have.
As PMFA put it, “Not a good week for Marco Polo.”
there was a murder in Cg a Gay guy stabbed his lover. Anyone that thinks the Mob is still In Cg has not come out of a shell In 8 to 10 years. I do agree Park slope is much Bigger. Carroll is very very small.
7:22 has to be one of the most ignorant posters today. Cobble Hill is comprised of a couple streets. Carroll Gardens is tiny.
It’s like saying Westchester is more crime ridden than Utica!! No kidding…there are tons more people you idiot!!
And last I heard…Park Slope gets shit all the time…PRECISELY BECAUSE IT’S SO FAMILY ORIENTED.
7:22=6:54
“Weird how nobody mentions the fact How Carroll Gardens is so much safer.”
weird how you don’t realize that carroll gardens is 1/10th the size of park slope, is not nearly as diverse when you factor in that park slope goes from flatbush to 15th and ppw to 4th avenue. it’s a large, multi-ethnic neighborhood, with over three times the number of people as cg. not surprising that it might have a tad more crime.
it is, however one of the safest neighborhoods around.
carroll gardens has a lot of unreported crimes. if you know what i mean…
THE MOB!
and i believe someone was just murdered a few weeks ago on smith street or thereabouts.
hasn’t been a murder in park slope for quite a while.
here’s another little tidbit for you 6:52:
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April 30, 2008 — Operating costs for landlords of the city’s million rent-stabilized apartment buildings jumped 7.8 percent last year, a harbinger that rent hikes this year will be larger than last.
The figures were reported yesterday by the Rent Guidelines Board, which meets Monday to begin the process of setting this year’s rent hikes for leases signed on or after Oct. 1.
The final increases will be established in June after the usual round of public hearings.
Last year, when landlord costs jumped 5.1 percent, the board voted rent hikes of 3 percent for one-year lease renewals and 5.75 percent for two-year renewals.
Ummm, 6:48,
I live in Manhattan.
In the middle of downtown Manhattan.
And I never said anything about there being no restaurants at which to eat in CG. I just wasn’t thinking about Frankies.
And for those of you making comments about my “lazy ass” or Cobble Hill being “too far to walk” for me from CG, you can forget about it. I probably walk 7 or 8 miles a day. My son’s school is over a mile from home and I walk him (plus his baby brother) there and back every weekday. TWICE.
I rarely take cabs, and subways are a convenient (for the most part) slice of daily life, in Manhattan. But I don’t have much experience with taking the train from Brooklyn or around Brooklyn, hence my request for enlightenment.
Again, no offense was intended, it just seems like CG is a touch overrated in terms of housing prices. It just doesn’t have the “caliber of charm” nor the fabulous creative restaurants and shops nor the big beautiful parks we’ve seen in other nabes with commensurate housing prices.