Development Watch: 1124 Bedford Ave
We received a tip that the former Bedford-Stuyvesant Community Mental Health Center, a brownstone building on the corner of Bedford and Gates Avenues in Bed-Stuy, is being demolished. A recent city document indicates a much larger development could replace the four-story corner building, in an area zoned for medium-density residential with mixed uses. Owner Afshin…
We received a tip that the former Bedford-Stuyvesant Community Mental Health Center, a brownstone building on the corner of Bedford and Gates Avenues in Bed-Stuy, is being demolished. A recent city document indicates a much larger development could replace the four-story corner building, in an area zoned for medium-density residential with mixed uses. Owner Afshin Dilmanian combined the property with four others to create a single, oddly-shaped lot that has additional frontage on Quincy Street, totaling roughly 25,000 square feet, or a half acre. The demolition permit was filed last month and already there’s a Stop Work Order for failure to remove glass prior to demolition. Anyone know any details about the plans? GMAP P*Shark DOB
that’s a damn shame. live around the corner and had heard the plan was to convert and build above. a mixed new-and-old could have been a real tribute to the past and present. instead, another historical building gets the ax for sitting east of franklin. do-or-die-bed-stuy, i guess, means death to creative development. personally, i spent the time & money (on a teacher’s salary, no less) to restore, not renovate, our brownstone on greene and bedford and have made back my investment and some with the quality of tenants i’ve secured from the character of the rentals. does this approach just not work at a larger scale, or is it the failure of those with deeper pockets to take on more aesthetically ambitious projects?
“It turns out that the pebbles were years worth of dog poop. And I guess the dog was a long forgotten guard. True Story.”
TMI
Bedford is the longest and oldest street in Brooklyn and this is probably one of the oldest commercial building on that street. It really is sad that they want to demolish this. I really see Bedford becoming a strong commercial corridor. It is to me more pleasant than Fulton St. right now even with the high traffic. It would be nice if this end of Fulton turns into nice stretch like the Williamsburg end.
“It turns out that the pebbles were years worth of dog poop. And I guess the dog was a long forgotten guard. True Story.”
TMI
2:39, put YOUR crack pipe down.
I know this building. In approximately 2000 it was for sale for $700,000. I remember seeing all these pebbles on the floor throughtout the building, I mean THOUSANDS. So I finally we get to the top level and there’s a dead dog carcas. A full dog body!; I think it was a German shepard: exposed skeleton, matted hair, open mouth.
It turns out that the pebbles were years worth of dog poop. And I guess the dog was a long forgotten guard. True Story.
Oh Yeah, The interior was nothing to speak of. I don’t remember any great architectural
details. The exterioi is fantastic and I hope they don’t tear it down.
No, all of Bed Stuy does not look like this, assuming you are asking a serious question, 2:50. If so, I applaud the asking, in that you are not assuming anything, and not acting like some of these experts who couldn’t find this corner with a map or a guidedog, but have an opinion.
The commercial streets of BS, Bedford, Nostrand, and others, have not received nearly as much attention as the beautiful residential side streets. Only in the last 5 years has much of anything happened at all, and not all of it good. Too many tear downs, like this, with horrible new construction. But on the good side, there are some new restaurants and shops on Bedford, near here, a new YMCA down the street, and some good non-profit organizations, and long time retail. Little by little, change is happening.
No, 2:50, this is not what all of Bed-Stuy looks like. A Bed-Stuy block won the “Greenest Block in Brooklyn” contest last year. It’s a huge neighborhood with gorgeous blocks, horrible blocks, and everything in between.
People are responding to the fact that this is an attractive brick building with a nice cornice. 10 years ago the Elly’s Market building on DeKalb was just as beat-up and blighted as this, and it received a gorgeous facade restoration and now really heightens the appearance of that street (despite the Elly’s owners bizarre insistence on filling up their windows with racks of potato chips, viewed from the back).
that corner looks horrfying.
is that what all of bed stuy looks like???