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November 29, 2005

Construction on the Ft Greene/Clinton Hill Border

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At the prompting of a reader, we took a stroll past the corner of Vanderbilt and Gates this morning. The plywood fence was gone, replaced by chain link with a clear view of the foundation dig underway. What, pray tell, is going up on this site? GMAP




Posted by Brownstoner at 10:11 AM | Comments (14)
Categories: Development

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I checked the Department of Buildings website, and it looks like condos to me. The DOB plans refer to a five story, eight unit building. The name on the application sound familiar, isn't Henry Radusky and Bricolage Designs designs the people who are doing that new twelve story condo building on Fourth Avenue in Park Slope?

Posted by: Shahn Andersen at November 29, 2005 11:01 AM

I checked the Department of Buildings website, and it looks like condos to me. The address is 479 Vanderbilt, and the DOB plans refer to a five story, eight unit building. The name on the application sounds familiar. Isn't Henry Radusky and Bricolage Designs designs the people who are doing that new twelve story condo building on Fourth Avenue in Park Slope?

Posted by: Shahn Andersen at November 29, 2005 11:02 AM

A nice grocery store? With fresh produce, good deli counter? Stays open past 8 PM? PLEEEEASE?!?!!?

Posted by: Anonymous at November 29, 2005 11:10 AM

Grocery store! Fishmonger! Butcher!

Posted by: Anonymous at November 29, 2005 11:27 AM

how i wish we could have fresh veggies or a decent deli!!

Posted by: diane at November 29, 2005 11:37 AM

Name sounds familiar? I think notorious is more like it.
Don't even hope for something remotely attractive. Think very plain Fedder building.

Posted by: Anonymous at November 29, 2005 11:37 AM

there's also a new construction (currently demollition) at 506 Washington (between gates and fulton)

Posted by: Anonymous at November 29, 2005 12:54 PM

There was, of course, a "grocery" on that corner before it was demolished. A bodega, more like, but it had that extremely funny facade with the pictures of all the animals whose parts they presumably sold: a pig, a sheep, a chicken, etc.

Posted by: willingd at November 29, 2005 1:26 PM

Condos, shucks, we need a few more nail salons or barber shops near that stretch of Fulton. ;-)

Posted by: Anonymous at November 29, 2005 1:27 PM

Bricolage was the architect on the townhouses on Greene between Washington and St. James, which went up years ago. They presented the original design to the Clinton Hill Society and were totally unprepared for the reaction...which was predictable, as it was a yellow stucco extravaganza with wrought iron balconies that looked a lot like Tel Aviv. The Society recruited a member who was an architect to work with Bricolage to come up with what you see now...not gorgeous, but better than what they started out with.

Posted by: Anonymous at November 29, 2005 2:02 PM

Yesterday on the way to the subway, I noticed the Washington Ave. (bet. Fulton and Gates) demolition. It was kind of a raised-ranch house with a garage. Now you see it, now you don't!

Anything going on with the vacant house right across the street, twin to the church with the food kitchen? There was a backhoe parked in front the other day. I wonder what will happen with the amputee who lives in a car in front of the building.

As for the former grocery store at Vanderbilt and Gates, it was a pretty weird place. None of the people inside seemed to speak English or have any interest in selling any foodstuffs.

Long ago (late 80s, early 90s) there was a fruit-and-vegetable store and a fish store on Fulton St. between St. James and Washington. During the mid-90s they merged--I think they were owned by the same Chinese family.

Posted by: Anonymous at November 29, 2005 3:08 PM

do you know that the huge building at the corner of washington and fulton is for sale? that could change the all area, 2 stores great location and 41 or so units, check it out

http://www.warburgrealty.com/buyers-prop-indiv.php?numb=466258

Posted by: Anonymous at November 29, 2005 6:54 PM

That's fantastic that place is for sale. It could really be a great apartment building with some nice commercial space if they did a good renovation.

Posted by: Anonymous at November 30, 2005 10:16 AM

there's supposed to be a gourmet deli opening on grand and lafayette...

Posted by: Anonymous at November 30, 2005 12:14 PM

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