Another Big Shiny Build for 4th Avenue
Another huge apartment building is going up on 4th Avenue. This one will have 70 rental units and be nine stories high, according to a story in BuzzBuzzHome. Located at 595 Baltic Street, it is just at the edge of Boerum Hill where it meets Gowanus. Curbed called it “The Transformer” and Curbed commenters pointed…
Another huge apartment building is going up on 4th Avenue. This one will have 70 rental units and be nine stories high, according to a story in BuzzBuzzHome. Located at 595 Baltic Street, it is just at the edge of Boerum Hill where it meets Gowanus. Curbed called it “The Transformer” and Curbed commenters pointed out that some of it — or at least the section on the upper right hand corner of the rendering — resembles a shipping container. The developer is Adam America and the architect is ND Architecture and Design PC. What do you think of the look?
Rendering by ND Architecture and Design PC GMAP
We’ve been finding Williamsburg pricing hilarious for a few years now too. I mean, I uses to be a Williamsburg apologist before prices there broke $500 Psf.
There’s a price point where living on a superfund site no longer makes any sense, and both of these areas have passed that. I think of them as sucker neighborhoods now–geared to recent relocaters who have no clue. The same kind of people who get excited about TriBeCa. It’s like a self selecting affluent ghetto, with bad air quality.
I agree, 4th ave to me is ten times better than Williamsburg.
other than the container part of this building it isnt that bad.
Will this actually front 4th or Baltic? Even though this design is distinguishable from some of the other 4th ave builds, there is to me an unusual sameness to the scale/shapes/overall form to these 4th avenue buildings. Perhaps b/c they’re primarily by Scarano and his devotees? Overall I’d say this is an improvement.
I’d say this is just at the edge of Boerum Hill where it meets North Slope, with 4th Ave being the dividing line. Gowanus doesn’t go this far north.
Last weekend my husband took us to Dino Barbeque in Gowanus/Park Slope/the neighborhood that should be called 4th Avenue. He is refreshingly naive about real estate.
As we walked down 4th Avenue from Atlantic to Union, he looked around, frowning a little, and said, “How much do you think an apartment around here would cost? This has to be cheap?”
When I told him it was more expensive than Clinton Hill he just started laughing hysterically.