Development Watch: S#!tbox on Underhill
This new two-family building going up at 112 Underhill Avenue may be the ugliest piece of crap we’ve had the misfortune to lay eyes on in recent memory. It would be hard to design anything this heinous if you tried. There should be a law…GMAP P*Shark DOB
The building on the left was originally a store front. It was pictured in the Prospect Heights House Tour brochure of 2007 in a feature about why landmarking was needed so uregntly for the neighborhood! It was once a quite pretty, woodframe building (in a simple vernacular way) — now sadly altered. But what’s going on next door only adds insult to injury. It’s especially lousy when one considers that the new construction and a sympathetic remodelling of the older building could quite easily be undertaken to make both buildings fit in better. But that corner is not landmarked and, as others have already pointed out, has already been desecrated. Too bad so few developers/small time builders give a xxxx.
What idiots are designing these apartments.
Norah Jones should show this to her neighbs in Cobble Hill and see if they still want to whine about her adding windows.
This is “I threw up in my mouth” ugly. And then it leaked outside.
this will sell for $4mm asap
To Shoots and Leaves:
Threw up is right!
I’m told the builder is the same as @ 117 Underhill–
It’s like a mushroom– it pops up overnight but it’s
still a fungus-among-us…
Is this even legal for light and air calcs?
Benson, you are expecting too much from this crowd.
This will be worthless once AY is built…
Ya think you might want to wait until the facade is built, before you render a final judgement?
*Threw-up