Real Photos of Carroll Gardens Bastard
A couple of readers kindly emailed us some fresh photos of our latest pet peeve, the abomination at 45 Third Place in Carroll Gardens. The pictures (two more of which are on the jump) speak for themselves. Carroll Gardens “Bastardization” Hits Market [Brownstoner] GMAP Carroll Gardens Atrocity [Brownstoner] Top photo by James Di Liberto; bottom…
A couple of readers kindly emailed us some fresh photos of our latest pet peeve, the abomination at 45 Third Place in Carroll Gardens. The pictures (two more of which are on the jump) speak for themselves.
Carroll Gardens “Bastardization” Hits Market [Brownstoner] GMAP
Carroll Gardens Atrocity [Brownstoner]
Top photo by James Di Liberto; bottom two photos by Jackie Ruvolo.
I like the concept of melding the past with the present but it has to be harmonious (if that’s even possible). That’s Frankenhouse!
Taksa if that isn’t destroying the past….. Are you blind?
As far as I’m concerned this isn’t progress this is greed pure and simple. I’m very suprised that residents aren’t fighting harder for their neighborhood. Often times communities take their history for granted in the name of progress and the need for more housing. Destroying the granduer and history of these magnificent buildings is not the answer.
Di*
http://www.achp.gov/citizensguide.html
Best that can be said is that they left the original house largely intact. Hopefully a more enlightened individual will someday remove the hideous carbuncle.
That’s great. I walk past there all the time and wonder at the simple ingenuity and creative use of space. I am all for progress that doesn’t destroy the past.
“I’m a life-long, 50-yr resident of CG, and that Third Place addition is the greatest abuse I’ve seen in the entire neighborhood.”
Carroll Gardens is the poster child for owner neglect and abuse, yet they now resent the people who now push their net worths into the stratosphere. Insane.
I like it. The developer, who owns a corner lot in a pricy nabe is compromising by NOT bulldozing the old house and putting up some nondescript fedders structure. He’s trying to save the old and, since he’s a businessman, maximize the FAR potential.
I wish more developers would be this sensitive and respectful to the neighborhood. The windows and balconies are especially appealing and as others said, much depend on what goes over that cinderblock, hopefully a red brick veneer?
I wonder though about the next door neighber–he’s going to get even less light now than he did when he just had to put up with those garages.
I think it needs gargoyles.
Ben Dover
you have got to see “Jackass 2”.
And then think of the deep,underlying psychological implications, of some of the skits and compare to your above message.