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April 20, 2006
Developments Rising at Sterling Place Crash Site
Three weeks after Transfer first wrote the story up, New York Magazine follows with a piece about the rebuilding on the corner of Sterling Place and 7th Avenue, site of the 1960 plane crash that killed 135 people. For reasons no one can point to, the two sites have sat undeveloped until recently, and it now looks like one of them will be large, family-geared condos and one will be a rental. As an aside, we also learn from the article that A&H honcho Peggy Aguayo grew up on Sterling Street in Crown Heights. Interesting. GMAP
The Long Road Back [NY Magazine]
Ghosts of Sterling Place [Transfer]
Rebuilding at Sterling Place [Brownstoner]
Comments
I think it's hard to tell from the photo, but the front facade looks contextual. The side looks a little less so.
Posted by: Kel at April 20, 2006 10:42 AM
You got a point about the one on the right. The one on the left looks a little less contextual I think. Not much to go on admittedly. The left one is the rental if I'm reading correctly.
Posted by: Anonymous at April 20, 2006 11:01 AM
For many years there was a one-story funeral home on the site of the building on the right.
Posted by: Anonymous at April 20, 2006 12:03 PM
The building on the left looks attractive to me, at least in passing. There is an attempt to maintain the look of the neighborhood.
Posted by: feelingdesperate at April 20, 2006 1:39 PM
People keep saying that this building looks like it fits in, but in walking by, I got a close-up look that the bricks are that sort of purple crackly fake-ness. Is it really so much more difficult to use a brick that fits in historically?
Posted by: renogirl at April 20, 2006 2:36 PM
bummer
Posted by: Brownstoner at April 20, 2006 3:24 PM
Same with the new development at Vanderbilt and Gates. The brick doesn't look good up close.
Posted by: renogirl at April 20, 2006 3:30 PM
That's IMO, actually. Maybe folks like the purple/red thing.
Posted by: renogirl at April 20, 2006 3:32 PM
The funeral home closed not long before the demolition. I think they were using the same sign as you can see in the top phono (slightly larger version here: http://psreader.com/article44.html)
Posted by: Anonymous at April 20, 2006 9:53 PM
The developer cannot reproduce what was there. It is a new building. Get over it.
Posted by: angelina at April 22, 2006 11:27 PM
Um, Angelina, this site is called "Brownstoner," not "CinderBlocker" or "VinylSidinger." When it comes to the issue of preserving the architectural character of old Brooklyn nabes, I don't think it likely the typical reader of this blog will "get over it."
Posted by: kutter at December 22, 2006 11:09 AM
Back on 12/16/1960, at the age of 15, I was at the site when United 826 crashed into Sterling Place; I still remember the tail section of the plane, and the chaos that followed. I never went back to the crash site, but the picture reminded of that horrible day. I have never recovered from that day. I wrote a manuscript of that event, entitle "Sterling Place" Look it up WWW.MIDAIR-COLLISION-OVER- NEWYORK.COM
Posted by: ray at February 1, 2007 8:02 AM
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