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March 15, 2007
328 Grand: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
Above: Wednesday, 5 p.m.; below: Thursday, 7:30 a.m.
So much for this being a safe desk job! On our way home yesterday, we walked passed 328 Grand Avenue, the two-story warehouse whose demise we have been lamenting, and took a few photos of the progress; then we crossed the street to take a couple of photos of the interior (staying on the sidewalk but standing underneath the shed). About half an hour later we were sitting on our stoop with the kids when we heard three or four fire trucks converging in the general vicinity of 328. Turns out part of the building had collapsed — right over where we'd been standing. Time to invest in a hard hat.
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I always get nervous whenever I have to walk under scaffolding. Glad you and yours are okay, Brownstoner.
Posted by: Anonymous at March 15, 2007 8:57 AM
You're SURE you and your familiy DIDN'T get hit with flying debris somehow emotionally scarring you for life...maybe even depriving you of your ability to blog like you used to...
Posted by: Dewy, Chetum, and How at March 15, 2007 9:06 AM
That scaffolding is among the worst I've seen at a construction site. I'm sure the permit for that barely squeaked through at the DOB.
Posted by: Shahn Andersen at March 15, 2007 10:28 AM
Funny DOB was out there Tuesday PM and didn't find any unsafe conditions. Maybe they should have gotten out of the car. Did you call 311?
Posted by: Anonymous at March 15, 2007 10:37 AM
Anyone know how many floors they can go with this new development?
Posted by: Anonymous at March 15, 2007 10:42 AM
Anyone know how many floors they can go with this new development?
Posted by: Anonymous at March 15, 2007 10:42 AM
This development is R6 as long as they get the plan approved and the foundation in before the downzoning takes effect. The sky is basically the limit. Technically, their top height is 130' (thirteen stories) but you can actually go taller than that with set backs, etc.
Posted by: Shahn Andersen at March 15, 2007 11:35 AM
Call the owner and ask what he has planned:
LEMMER ABE OWNER
309 GRAND AVE 718 230 - 9292
BROOKLYN NY 11238
Posted by: Anonymous at March 15, 2007 11:55 AM
Call the owner and ask what he has planned:
LEMMER ABE OWNER
309 GRAND AVE 718 230 - 9292
BROOKLYN NY 11238
Posted by: Anonymous at March 15, 2007 11:56 AM
Guess what? A hardhat would not have done you a lot of good.
Whenever you see an unreinforced masonry wall rising more than twelve or fourteen feet into the air,keep your distance.
This wall in particular was all windows.
How stupid could the contractors be?
Posted by: Serge at March 15, 2007 4:00 PM
it is so sad that they have torn this down. the building across the street is SO poorly built and here i am sure there will be another poorly built one. how sad that wonderful OLD buildings are being torn down for crap and the city approves of it in "bad" neighborhoods.
Posted by: Anonymous at March 15, 2007 4:51 PM
anon 11:55, would you like if i post your contact info on a public forum, to get tons of people to harass you about your business?
Or I guess it's because his name seems jewish?
You fucking moron, and shameless idiot.
Posted by: Mentch at March 15, 2007 5:03 PM
I'm confused. what does jewish have to do with anything? isn't this about the building?
anyway, the building was beautiful and it would've been cool and possibly more lucrative for the developer to make apartments within, with something contextual rising up from. while the neighborhood is still somewhat "bad", anyone who's looking for an apt. here tends to be looking for something of quality or in a brownstone. those other buildings across the street are so dismal that as the neighborhood changes, they will not be able to find the buyers and renters they could have gotten at top dollar with slightly better design and probably same cost. bummer.
Posted by: yael at March 15, 2007 5:10 PM
It is public access jackass. Just go to the DOB site and plug in 328 Grand Avenue. Not rocket science - and nothing to do with religion.
Posted by: Anonymous at March 15, 2007 5:10 PM
yes it's public records, but its another thing to post it TWICE with CAPITAL letters on this forum, while bagging everyone to call and ask.
I haven't seen it at the One Hanson post, to call up and ask what's doing with building, or any other post of today that I can think now.
Posted by: Mentch at March 15, 2007 5:20 PM
Not sure about why the double post - I apoligize for that. I just cut and pasted it - it is all caps on the DOB site - call them if you have an issue. A lot has been written about EXACTLY what is happening over at 1 Hanson - no need to call about that one jerky. Don't get your panties in a wad......
Posted by: Anonymous at March 15, 2007 5:38 PM
mentch - i think you're barking up the wrong tree entirely.
Posted by: bill_stickers at March 15, 2007 8:26 PM
Mentsch-
I'm Jewish. Your comment was inappropriate. Can we get back to Real Estate please.
Posted by: anon at March 16, 2007 7:10 AM
Hey, take it from a kid who spent every day off from school in 328 grand ave.
if you'd ever been inside of it, you'd know the building was a piece of c**p. It was a mess and unsafe and hardly the "quality" you are making it out to be.
It needed to be thrown down a long time ago.There was no sense in trying to fix it up, it needed to go down and be redone from scratch.
Yes, its sad when an old fixture in the neighborhood goes down, but dont post things you dont know about buidings you've never seen or been in or even noticed until it was posted on this site.
Posted by: Anonymous at March 16, 2007 10:32 AM
Above poster is correct. The building was not safe. Go look at the building dept records. 328 grand had a fire sometime in the 80's and I've seen those beams being taken out of the building. They are charred and burned and I have no idea how that building stood on those beams for so long. Just looking at those you can tell right away that this building needed to go. It was not cost effective or safe to redo this buidling
Posted by: Anonymous at March 16, 2007 11:41 AM
the building was a piece of c**p. Anything, including a HOLE in the ground would be better.
Posted by: Anonymous at March 16, 2007 2:11 PM
Where'd that Mentch bitch go?
Posted by: Anonymous at March 16, 2007 10:27 PM
I've lived in this neighborhood for over thirty years now and remember like yesterday the fire that scorched 328 Grand.Instead of razing the building and starting from new, they decided just to 'fix it up'. I remember when the neighbors found out about this, we were all raged, how unsafe, what a hazard. Funny how what was screamed 'against' then, is now considered a 'landmark'. It's a miracle the building lasted this long.
Posted by: Senior Fort Green resident at March 18, 2007 1:27 PM
I've lived in this neighborhood for over thirty years now and remember like yesterday the fire that scorched 328 Grand.Instead of razing the building and starting from new, they decided just to 'fix it up'. I remember when the neighbors found out about this, we were all raged, how unsafe, what a hazard. Funny how what was screamed 'against' then, is now considered a 'landmark'. It's a miracle the building lasted this long.
Posted by: Senior Fort Green resident at March 18, 2007 1:27 PM
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