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June 6, 2006
A Changing Skyline in the Lower Slope
Here's the view back up the Slope from Gowanus with the Fourth Avenue skyline just starting to take shape. Wonder what this view will look like in, say, three years?
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in three years this view will include the image of me loading up a moving truck and heading to vermont. i already miss ya, brooklyn.
Posted by: an at June 6, 2006 10:27 AM
Park Slope/Gowanus from the name streets to the Prospect Expressway is going to be very very different. There are big projects on 4th Ave and medium sized projects in the South Slope -- mostly 15th and 16th streets. There will be a Whole Foods in Gowanus, and 5th Ave is changed south of 9th now. And this is without the whole Venice on the Gowanus project...
Posted by: Anonymous at June 6, 2006 10:34 AM
good riddance, an!
Posted by: Anonymous at June 6, 2006 10:45 AM
It will be high rises as far as the eye can see. Everything's up to date in Kansas City, oops, I mean Brooklyn.
Posted by: Shahn Andersen at June 6, 2006 10:46 AM
Yes, it will truly be a shame if this beautiful vista were marred by new apartments with people living in them. But why go to Vermont? Head to Detroit! Plenty of unspoiled tracts of warehouses, garages and vacant lots there, unsullied by nasty old gentrifiers. It's a paradise for the working man!
Posted by: linusvanpelt at June 6, 2006 10:53 AM
in 3 years? a few more apt bldgs. but by and large 4th avenue will still be ugly and whole foods will finally be announcing their opening. Things change - but is more of constant state of evolution than overnight.
Posted by: Anonymous at June 6, 2006 11:05 AM
I love it when urban decay fetishists lament big buildings, conveniently ignoring the fact that the neighborhood already had much bigger buildings built 80 years ago! Look in the background on that photo.
Posted by: Anonymous at June 6, 2006 11:52 AM
I like the clouds. They're pretty. And gray.
Posted by: gidget at June 6, 2006 3:16 PM
I should have bought in the gowanus. damn.
Posted by: Anonymous at June 6, 2006 5:34 PM
dudes, i was kidding. fourth ave is a totally appropriate spot for big buildings. bring 'em on.
Posted by: an at June 7, 2006 10:25 AM
4th Ave is ugly now.
They should put up bigger bldgs, but try to keep the brick and brownstone that are there now and only where the warehouses are. And put some style in the new bldgs, not just ugly plain brick
Posted by: Anonymous at June 7, 2006 4:47 PM
Fifth Avenue will be next. I just want to know if this will affect the quality of service on the F train. When all these people move in you just watch and see if they don't start charging triple the price for double A batteries and M and M's!!!
Posted by: imby at June 7, 2006 6:34 PM
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