A reader sent in this photo of 1638 8th Avenue aka Lake Windsor last week along with some commentary about the long-running project (which some of you might remember as a beneficiary of a developer-friendly decision by the BSA in 2006). “You can see that the building does not try in any way to respect the existing run of buildings on either side,” writes the tipster. “It also pushes deep into the lot, so much so that it looms over the backyards of homeowners on prospect and windsor (see second photo).” The reason, as you can see from the map on the jump, is that the lot is highly irregular in shape and location, jutting far into the middle of the block.
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