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]
You mean people spend all their extra money for a good public school for 5 years, 11:59. 5 years. What about college? What about paying for a private high school if the kids don’t get into one of the better public high schools? It’s a bit short-sighted.
Besides there’s more to forming a well rounded human being and more to success as an adult, than just academics. What about having enough extra money to travel to Europe? Or get out of the city in the Summer? It’s not an option for those spending every extra dime they might have to live in CG or in the PS 321 zone.
There is a very very strong argument against choosing to blow the bank on a K-5 public school district. But the realtors won’t allow that discussion to really take root in Brooklyn, because they are making huge amounts of money off your obsession with being in a good K-5 school district. You all played right into it.
I don’t know what the cross street is for 164 Smith, but since there’s no Starbucks in Carroll Gardens from DeGraw on, you don’t know what you are talking about.
11:51 poster (who I think may also be 11:43) is someone who always posts about how great CG is but always with very bad grammar and some kind of racist implication. Please stop posting, you make the rest of us Carroll Gardens residents look bad.
CG doesn’t have just the F – it also has the G even if that isn’t saying much.
11:54…I do know a lot about Carroll Gardens, you are just one of those people who think you are always right.
I asked my Starbucks as a question because clearly YOU don’t know where the border of your own neighborhood lie.
I’m in Garroll Gardens at least a few times a week.
I find the people conservative, boring and racist. And they obviously think very highly of their overpriced, ugly houses and mediocre schools.
Park Slope might have it’s negatives (I actually don’t think too many) but the one thing it is, is LIBERAL.
The most liberal of all the brownstone neighborhoods, for sure.
My god, my co-op is practically a hippie commune.
Hey, Brooklyn Tech isn’t that bad!
Rentals are cheaper in CG than Fort Greene? Are you serious?
We have a 3.5 bedroom/2 bathroom for under $3000 on Lafayette and South Portland. My friends in the CG pay $1700 for a one bedroom with a galley kitchen.
The C/G/B/Q/2/3/4/5 trains are between 10 feet and 3 blocks from my door. CG has only the F.
CG isn’t a bad ‘hood, but it’s definitely not worth the price of admission in my opinion.
Nice way to sell CG, 11:51. I would never raise my children around racists. Not if I wanted them to function properly as adults in a more sophisticated world.
11:54 am — guess what, it IS the schools! Some of us parents don’t want to ship the kids off to private school. Even more important, we don’t want to live in a neighborhood full of parents who prefer to do that than to make ourselves a part of the neighborhood.
Do you have any idea why Park Slope, especially PS 321, became so expensive? If Fort Greene is so great, the schools should follow, because it means that families are vested in the neighborhood. When that really happens, Fort Greene and Clinton Hill will be far more expensive places to live.
For ANYONE whow would say that this part of Brooklyn is “liberal”, you must have just arrived.
This is Bush country, people. Just this morning over breakfast at Joe’s I heard a bunch of old timers bemoaning that “Jewberg” mayor and how he is responsible for all the woes in the neighborhood. As well there was some charming talk of how some “niggers” are OK, like the ones who are cops and firemen, etc. As I was leaving there was a community discussion on how impressive Bush was during the state of the union.
Yeah, not as liberal as you or Heath Ledger would like to think.