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]
Rentals are cheap in Carroll Gardens.
Cheaper than Park Slope or Ft. Greene.
That says a lot.
Also, 11:42am, that’s my point — you have no idea where Carroll Gardens is, or the reasons people may or may not want to live there, so why even post? Really, I never post about Fort Greene (except to say how beautiful the housing stock is there), or Park Slope’s 5th Avenue, because, despite visiting those places on occasion, I really don’t know them that well. You don’t know Carroll Gardens that well, so you have little to add to this debate.
There are certainly negatives to living in Carroll Gardens (many houses with details stripped, too many mom and pop stores leaving, F train is the only access, etc.) But I’d rather hear an opinion from someone who has facts at hand rather than a vague notion of the neighborhood with no real knowledge.
>> Actually, 164 Smith Street is Carroll Gardens.
So what’s the southern boundary for Cobble Hill / Boerum Hill? Pacific Street maybe?
As a Ft Greene renter with no kids, is it really all about the schools? Because that’s the only rational argument I can fathom in favor of CG over any other neighborhood.
Compared to Prospece Heights, Ft Green or Clinton Hill, the houses in CG are smaller, uglier (my opinion), WAY more expensive and isolated from public transportation.
Any argument in favor of better restaurants, shopping or culture is negligible these days.
I’d take bigger nicer home in Bed-Stuy for $700k anyday and ship the kids off to Exeter with the money I saved. But I don’t have kids so maybe I’m missing something.
Yeah, because BAM sucks as an amenity. So do all the multitude of subway options at the Atlantic/Pacific stop.
Right.
I’d LOVE to only have one F stop in my entire neighborhood.
Actually, 164 Smith Street is Carroll Gardens.
But people in your neck of the woods like to say it’s in the hood if you like it and not, if you don’t.
SO typical of CG.
I wasn’t talking about Bay Ridge or Carroll Gardens, 11:48.
The brownstone owners the hip brownstone neighborhoods who bought their houses in the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s and were the pioneers, the very people who made Brooklyn what it is today, the only reason you all even want to be here, those are the values that aren’t reflected as much in newer residents.
If you even try to compare Carroll Gardens to Ft. Greene you r nuts. There is no way buddy. Carroll Gardens has a better class of people the old Italian ways are long gone. The crimes commited in ft greene are very high. The are no ammenities in Ft. Greene, You can shop for anything you need and get it in Carroll Gardens. No way buddy cant compare.
My “old school brooklynite” neighbor who’s lived in the hood for 48 years….the “n” word is pretty much the only word she utters.
SOOO liberal and diverse.