House of the Day: Endangered on Orient Avenue
Barring the intervention of a very well-heeled hipster trustafarian, another unlandmarked gem in Greenpoint may be headed for the execution chamber. Its crime? Sitting on a 60-by-100-foot lot in a neighborhood that has been complacent about protecting its architectural heritage. (This block was known as Doctors’ Row in the middle of the 20th Century.) The…
Barring the intervention of a very well-heeled hipster trustafarian, another unlandmarked gem in Greenpoint may be headed for the execution chamber. Its crime? Sitting on a 60-by-100-foot lot in a neighborhood that has been complacent about protecting its architectural heritage. (This block was known as Doctors’ Row in the middle of the 20th Century.) The Victorian-era shingled house is on the chopping block for $2.5 million, more than it would likely fetch were it not for the 13,200 square feet of buildable space that accompanies a 6,000-square-foot lot in an R6 neighborhood. As the listing points out, the addition of a community facility could mean an even larger building. What a shame. Maybe some creative entrepreneur could make this work as a bed and breakfast or how about a Soho House East?
59 Orient Avenue [Capri Jet Realty] GMAP P*Shark
59 Orient Avenue [NY Times]
the zip code for the house is 11211. bushwick is 11206. you do the math. it IS williamsburg
Let me set the record straight. I lived across the street from that home for 23 years. it is WILLIAMSBURG! Orient Ave. was the nicest residential block in not only Williamsburg but all of the adjacent neighborhoods. On a warm Spring or Summer evening, as you walked home from the Canarsie line subway station at Graham Ave. you would be greeted by all of your neighbors on this beautiful, tree lined street.
I have very fond memories of the people and the eclectic architecture that this one block oasis. Preserve it. You can’t build history.
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Why get rid of the comments about how horrible it is what is happening to this house? Are you on the developers payroll?
I guess one advantage is that the fat scumbag who owned the place won’t be littering the street with his run-down German cars and cat piss smell anymore. And you won;t have to be woken by the police coming by to tell him to put the heat back on for his tenants, and that his connection at the precinct no longer cares for him to drop his name.
Hope he chokes on the cash his fat ass will pocket…
I just had to move out of the 2nd floor of this house. It is so beautiful and I feel really lucky to have had the chance to live there. It is going to be torn down to build condos, it breaks my heart.