We’re loathe to give exposure to anything as reprehensible as 1067 Fulton Street, but the occasion of its first showing tomorrow seemed like a good reason to revisit what we have referred to in the past as the biggest lost opportunity for Clinton Hill certainly since we’ve been documenting its progress. We’ve seen some ugly new buildings in our time, but this one takes the cake for its sheer ad-hoc butchery and complete disregard for any kind of consistency. Someone once described this building process to us as looking like its construction was dictated solely by whatever materials were on sale that day at Home Depot. The development company that built this monstrosity, New Start LLC of 50 Greene Street, whose principals include Alfred Thompson and Paul Galvin, should be ashamed of themselves. There’s an open house for the apartments tomorrow from 12 to 1:30 and, man, would we be excited if someone could snap a photo of any of them. These guys should be embarrassed to walk down the street in the neighborhood. It would be great if none of the apartments sold and they were bankrupted; in our dreams, then, someone could tear it down and start over. Sadly, though, the apartments are priced cheaply enough (from $150,000 to $420,000) that some poor souls may be suckered into buying; ironically, it will probably be the people who can least afford to make a bad investment.
1067 Fulton: The Plague Spreads [Brownstoner] GMAP
Development at Classon and Fulton [Brownstoner]
New Build at Classon and Fulton [Brownstoner]