What the Heck Is Going On in Carroll Gardens?
This is getting weird. Despite a softening market all around, there’s been a rash of new listings in Carroll Gardens that have defied all logic and precedent. Starting with 44 1st Place (which in retrospect is probably the best deal of the lot) for $3,842,500, they’ve just kept coming: A 3,100-square-foot house at 78 3rd…
This is getting weird. Despite a softening market all around, there’s been a rash of new listings in Carroll Gardens that have defied all logic and precedent. Starting with 44 1st Place (which in retrospect is probably the best deal of the lot) for $3,842,500, they’ve just kept coming: A 3,100-square-foot house at 78 3rd Place for $3,495,000? A 16-foot-wide one at 40 2nd Place for $2,800,000? And now a three-story house at 329 President Street for a $3,600,000? What is going on here? One common denominator: Corcoran is the listing agent on all these places except for 1st Place. Coincidence or conspiracy?
329 President Street [Corcoran] GMAP
HOTD: 40 2nd Place [Brownstoner]
HOTD: 78 3rd Place [Brownstoner]
HOTD: 44 1st Place [Brownstoner]
Isn’t it odd that as soon as The What’s dire predictions came true he disappeared?
1. Is it often about the schools. And it can be worth paying this premium bcs a) you’re not paying 25-30k after-tax dollars on tuition for 6 years (k-6) and the 15k each year for 2 years of preschool to get into the 25k privates. and b) you get the same premium back when you sell.
2. PS58 is starting to turn around, but it’s not in same league as 321, 29 or even PS8.
3. These prices are NUTS.
4. But it’s not price fixing.
This ‘price fixing’ is nothing more than what this whole real estate, house of cards and pyramid scheme has been all about. Nothing new. It took fraud and deception to push prices where they are today. It will take mass revelation and acceptance to bring them back down to where they should be, God knows where.
I would never buy in CG at these prices. I rather buy a 800K house in Northwestern Bedford Stuyvesant or Stuyvesant Heights. The homes in that area so beautiful and still intact because because many of the people that lived there in the past could not afford to update there homes. It really seems like PS 1970 I guess beacause it was all designed with the same architects.
There is some Carroll Gardens on 5th Ave–La Villa. Perfect example of a restaurant that I’d expect to be in CG.
1:04 – your post is making me giggle uncontrollably.
I think I have some mozzerella sticks if they’re still available.
OK, for the record, I’m an F train hater, but that’s as a PARK SLOPER – where you have the option of other trains that get you to Manhattan much faster. For a Carroll Gardens resident, the F train is fine and fast. It just slows way down when it goes above ground and seems to take forever to get to the Slope after that. Just my take…
The old school all had kids, 1:30.
Don’t be so naive to think that racism and conservatism are only a generational thing.
I see plenty of kids hating on people who are different than they are.
It’s engrained in their upbringing.
” {people are} all aflutter over the possibility of a MickeyD’s taking the place of the Brooklyn Camo. Someone called it a “tipping point” after it was pointed out that there was a Starbucks, a Dunkin’ Donuts AND a Domino’ Pizza directly across the street, not to mention the Brooklyn Industries and American Apparel, Lucky Brand Jeans, Rite Aid, CVS, Wamu….”