Open House Picks
Carroll Gardens 415 Sackett Street Douglas Elliman Sunday 12-2 $2,000,000 GMAP P*Shark Cobble Hill 143 Amity Street Brown Harris Stevens Sunday 12-2 $3,450,000 GMAP P*Shark Park Slope 481 4th Street Betancourt Sunday 1-3 $2,795,000 GMAP P*Shark Sunset Park 354 50th Street Corcoran Sunday 12:30-2 $775,000 GMAP P*Shark
Carroll Gardens
415 Sackett Street
Douglas Elliman
Sunday 12-2
$2,000,000
GMAP P*Shark
Cobble Hill
143 Amity Street
Brown Harris Stevens
Sunday 12-2
$3,450,000
GMAP P*Shark
Park Slope
481 4th Street
Betancourt
Sunday 1-3
$2,795,000
GMAP P*Shark
Sunset Park
354 50th Street
Corcoran
Sunday 12:30-2
$775,000
GMAP P*Shark
Nobody’s dissing that block. People can have personal preferences without dissing. At one time I swore I’d never use the word dis. I dissed the word dis big time back in my youth. So much for that.
Yeah, anyway, proclamations about who should or shouldn’t be looking somewhere bug me. A couple weeks ago, someone said if you want a detached house so bad, you shouldn’t be looking in Brooklyn and probably don’t belong in NYC. What the hell is that? Brooklyn has thousands of detached houses.
Sackett St between Smith and Hoyt is a beautiful, wide tree-lined block and you can’t be more central to the best restaurants and shops in the neighborhood. The Grocery, Po, Chestnut, Zaytoons, Cubana Cafe, Savoia, Thai place Em are all literally right there. Gourmet dumpling shop Eton just opened up at Sackett and Smith and there are two relaxed bars right at that corner as well. I live a block over and that block is super-friendly, Sesame Street-style brownstones and stoops. Historic church at corner of Sackett and Hoyt is beautiful. If you ‘dis that block, you shouldn’t be looking to live in Carroll Gardens. Sackett house looks nice, and as for price, another house on the block (396 Sackett) is on the market for $2.4, and that one has an odd layout (lower triplex and top floor rental) that narrows the living space.
“either way, if i had ~$3MM in my pocket, not sure i’d want to be a landlord.”
Are you serious? You can do whatever you want as soon as it’s yours. And if you’re rolling in doe ripping out the kitchens and installing a Batman pole from the top floor to subbasement is chump change.
for residence, Henry Clinton Court beats Smith st 99 out of 100 times. Ok, to appease some naysayers looking to object, 97 out of 100 times
exactly what I said that I would prefer to be further away from Smith but the advantage is that it is more ‘central’.
I’d call Clinton prettier or nicer just not ‘central’.
Well, I lived right off Clinton, and I don’t see how you can get any more “central” than Clinton Street in Carroll Gardens or Cobble Hill. And I’ve never been one to complain about the walk to the F/G trains (or even to the Borough Hall trains) from where I lived in Carroll Gardens. I also agree with Boerum Hill that I’d personally prefer to be further away from the Smith Street noise – IMHO, it’s a nice place to visit . . .
OY….then I was roped into liking it by the few pics that were there.
“Court is the EXACT same distance from the subway, the historic district, and the Smith Street restaurants as Hoyt. ” – Well not really – Court to Smith is longer block than Hoyt to Smith….but more importantly this house is 1/2 block from Smith and I’m sure you were refering to west of Court St not Court st itself. And historic district goes from Smith to Hoyt. (just not as far up as Sackett).
I personally don’t desire that central location in neighborhood (as I do live there) to living around Clinton…just that ‘central’ didn’t seem right to me as that is the advantage of living off Smith as opposed to around Clinton. For instance how many times have people opined here how long a walk it is to subway from Henry or Hicks (not a valid objection but one used often).
Boerumresident, I totally agree. I was merely stating that I’m not one of those people.
I also agree about Norah Jones skewing the comps. I have close friends who have lived on that block since the early 1990s, and when word got out that she bought the house, I mentioned to them that “Norah Jones bought a $5 million house on their block”, and they corrected me and said, “No, Norah Jones PAID $5 million for a house on our block”.