Create 3 Views blocks that display 1st, 2nd, and 3rd most recently created nodes
Create the 3 views blocks with your filters and order by created. Then change the Pager to Display a specified number of items.  

For 1st block update the settings (it should say displaying X items) then update the Items to display to 1 and the offset to 0.

For the 2nd block do the same but change the offset to 1 and then for the third block set the offset to 2.

Untested but on a quick check of the options, this should give you what you are after.

Paul