2 Lefferts Comes Into Focus, Exceeds Expectations
The developer of 2 Lefferts Place (at right) deserves some kind of medal or something. Though the property is not within the Clinton Hill Historic District, he still made every effort to build a contextual new building, down to the cornice (which actually looks a little big) and the choice of brick. Hopefully his choices…
The developer of 2 Lefferts Place (at right) deserves some kind of medal or something. Though the property is not within the Clinton Hill Historic District, he still made every effort to build a contextual new building, down to the cornice (which actually looks a little big) and the choice of brick. Hopefully his choices will be rewarded by the marketplace. Meanwhile a few lots down across the street, at 19 Lefferts Place (photo on the jump), a developer’s effort to create some kind of penthouse apartment has just marred the otherwise charming stretch of facades. Nice goin’.
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19 Lefferts Place
David,
Isn’t that hysterical?! We actually DID walk the basse corniche once and the moyenne corniche another time. NOT, of course all the way to Menton, just around the bend to Villefranche…gorgeous, clear and sunny winter days.
We have also done our fair share of gas guzzling along that stretch! It’s about as scenic as it gets.
🙂
BrooklynGreene…you can walk those roads. I’ll wave as i drive by in my gas guzzling Corniche.
Exactly CMU – it is boring as hell. They go all that trouble emulating a plain old building. And to make it worst, it is not even look that accurate since the floor level are off (probably because of modern zoning rules), cornice too large and windows that lacks the details.
Seriously, this is as bad as praising a metal-n-glass modern building.
While it might be preferable to the Scarano edifices, what’s to cheer about it? It’s basically Yet-Another-Boring-Brick Building. And the cornice looks like it’s about to fall off.
I’d go with the modern townhouses on 13th St any day…how come we never see them here?
1842,
Sorry!!! Yes, someone ELSE wrote the windows were too small and you were only responded writing that you didn’t NOT find them too small…
Rob,
Well, yes, maybe I sometimes am as you picture me…although, I haven’t embroidered since I was a child. I still knit though! I agree with Nokilissa regarding your comments.
David,
I thought the Corniche was set of roads running from Nice to Menton: one down by the water, one half way up the slope and another way up high haute corniche. I prefer the middle one, although the haute corniche can be nice too. The basse corniche has too much traffic.
cornice makes no sense, at least from the photo. Looks like something to hang a window-washing machine of off. Woulda looked better smaller, to come closer to the others on the block. Still, A for effort.
Montrose Morris – “It’s in the middle of an historic neighborhood.”
I agree. I love the historic residential enclave of Lefferts Place. I’m happy that the the owner and architect decided to design and build a townhouse that is contextual and respectful of the neighborhood’s rich architectural history. However, I’m utterly shocked and dismayed that Letitia James, Hakeem Jefferies, Velmanette Montgomery and CB2 are actually considering upzoning Lefferts Place from R6B (same as all residential streets in Clinton Hill and Fort Greene) to R7A (same as Fulton, Myrtle and Atlantic) to accommodate a health care developer’s plan to build a mammoth senior housing and nursing center on the street.
Where are the presevationists on this issue? It took the Dept of City Planning 40 years to change the zoning law to protect the low scale character of our historic neighborhoods but now a mere two years later they are attempting to selectively reverse this much sought after protection. Where’s the outrage? Where does the Society for Clinton Hill and the Fort Greene Association stand on the possible upzoning of Lefferts Place? If DCP and SBA upzones Lefferts Place, it should send a chill down the spine of everyone living in Brownstone Brooklyn.
Now as that so hard?
I like it. And it pleases me hugely to see the occasional nod to contextual historic building. I’m surprised at the number of votes for something “contemporary and bold” because, walking down virtually any street with construction anymore, that is what is going in, period. I often wonder how long it will take for us to resemble Berlin.
And Rob, on a side note, sometimes your comments make me positively cringe. Can we please refrain from evoking the image of a little girl who did absolutely nothing wrong, was too young to even understand what was being done to her via pageants and so on, and who was viciously attacked, raped and murdered – as a wry explanatory example of something you find distasteful?