House of the Day: 28 2nd Place
This brownstone at 28 2nd Place in Carroll Gardens is a bit unusual. It’s 34 feet (and four windows) wide, double the width of many houses. As a result, the three-story house is almost 5,000 square feet and has another 3,300 square feet of air rights. From the looks of the exterior, this’ll need some…

This brownstone at 28 2nd Place in Carroll Gardens is a bit unusual. It’s 34 feet (and four windows) wide, double the width of many houses. As a result, the three-story house is almost 5,000 square feet and has another 3,300 square feet of air rights. From the looks of the exterior, this’ll need some work. The asking price of $3,900,000 suggests the seller thinks the likely buyer is a developer who will slap some ugly addition onto the roof. Hopefully, any such developer will remember the lesson of the Carroll Gardens atrocity on 3rd Place before heading down such a path.
28 2nd Place [Irongate] GMAP P*Shark
Photo by Kate Leonova for Property Shark
“Community Wedged between Caroll Gardens and Park Slope
a/k/a
CoW ChiPS”
That’s clever and all, except there’s no “Chi” in “Carroll Gardens”
How does a RE agency stay in business with this kind of website?
Or this kind of pricing? Are there really developers out there who would pay this much imagining they’ll be able to make renovating and selling? Will they risk their own cash on this or are there banks stupid enough to go in with them?
Knickerbocker-
I like it! From now on, I officially live in CoW Chip.
As far as the original post, I’m not sure that if I had a four million dollar purchase budget, and very deep renovation pockets that this is the property that I’d be looking at. I love the neighborhood, but four and a half, five million dollars………..
Exactly 7:59. And before that it was all called South Brooklyn. Who gives a rats ass what some schmuck from Dayton thinks his new neighborhood is called. If he’s as stupid to buy SOLELY based on NAME it’s not the first time he’s missed the boat on many, many things.
Here’s hoping no developer tears the house down or turns it into an eyesore. There have been a few brownstones turned into condos in the neighborhood, but none have been torn down to do so. However, the wide property across the street, which had been a 1960’s era house, was torn down to build the big glass condo on that block.
These extra wide houses rarely come on the market. If I was a hedge fund manager with a $10 million budget I’d buy it and turn it into an amazing one-family. This is a great block to live on. The problem is that these homes don’t divide naturally into 2 families or 3, so there’s no easy owners duplex or triplex with rental(s). Each floor can be an apartment, or I suppose you can duplex to the basement, which is mostly below ground in the front, but it’s not ideal.
I wish the listing included a floor plan.
The better name for Gowanus is one that someone told me a few years ago:
Community Wedged between Caroll Gardens and Park Slope
a/k/a
CoW ChiPS
Let’s see Corcoran sell that name.
I prefer the baby Jesus, so I painted that one next door.
I’m afraid to walk the streets of Bed Stuy.
Carroll Gardens extends to King Street.
Anything over $1 mil in any Brooklyn neighborhood is WAY overpriced!
(just looking to get through all the annoying bases for controversy, so we can move on and talk about the damned house for a change. There are freakin’ broken records on this blog!!!)
I live between Hoyt & Bond, and I don’t really care what it’s called because I love it. It doesn’t feel toxic even remotely, and we’re right in the middle of Smith Street or 5th avenue amenities. Our walk to the subway is 2 minutes, unlike what it would be if we lived up by Henry Street.
For the poster who talked about the various houses for sale for under 1.2M, please let me know where they are! I see the one on Sackett, and I saw 2 a few months ago on 1st Place, but those were scooped up for close to asking price. That configuration is exactly what I’ve been looking for, and it’s not that easy to find.
That whole area (Carroll Gardens, Gowanus, Cobble Hill, whatever) used to be Red Hook, until the 1960s or so.