Development Watch: 145-159 Classon Avenue

Gaza Chic!?

Its crappy architecture, but not sure what that means? I don't see any Jerusalem Stone on this bad boy.

Posted by: guest at November 6, 2007 12:40 PM

Best. Condos. Ever.

Posted by: guest at November 6, 2007 12:40 PM

Crap at its best. It should be considered a crime to deface our city by building such crap.

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Posted by: guest at November 6, 2007 12:57 PM

Those Damn ornate terraces staggered down the building make me want to puke everytime I see it done, to say nothing of the false 'classicism'. This shit is just nasty. YUCK!

Posted by: guest at November 6, 2007 1:07 PM

not to mention it's in the armpit of Clinton hill / bed Stuy and w'burg.

what a piece of crap in a crap location.

Posted by: guest at November 6, 2007 1:26 PM

Judging by those offset terraces, I'm guessing these are not built for Pratt sutdents or hipsters. If you compare this building to some of the other buildings being sold as cheap condos to the hassidim, it actually looks pretty good.

Posted by: guest at November 6, 2007 1:35 PM

LOL, all you haters are clueless. I guess the posters at Brownstoner think that nobody lives in Brooklyn outside of yuppies and hipsters from Ohio.

This building has a fantastic location for its target market (which most certainly isn't anyone posting on Brownstoner). The location is very prime for its future residents.

And regarding design: the people who will be living in this building do not care what it looks like. Even if they did, they wouldn't share your aesthethic sensibilites. They're also probably the fastest growing group in Brooklyn.

Posted by: guest at November 6, 2007 1:38 PM

1:38: "...the people who will be living in this building do not care what it looks like. Even if they did, they wouldn't share your aesthethic sensibilites. They're also probably the fastest growing group in Brooklyn."

So you're saying they breed like rats and uglify neighborhoods?

AWESOME!

Posted by: guest at November 6, 2007 1:49 PM

Definately housing for hasidim. European jews living in subsidized housing with tax-breaks giving to jewish developers by former mayor ed koch, after striking deals with rag-to-riches spanish politicians to run their own constituents out of that part of town.

Posted by: guest at November 6, 2007 2:00 PM

This is NOT a hasidic neighborhood folks. No way. Its an anglo caribbean and quickly gentrifying nabe. Hasidim are found further east along Eastern Parkway and south of EPkwy. this is north

Posted by: guest at November 6, 2007 2:29 PM

You at 2:02
If beeing against uglines equals beeing Anti-Semite I'm in this category together with 2:00.

Posted by: guest at November 6, 2007 2:31 PM

Okay 2:29, you probably just arrived here from some suburban dusty town. Your geography, history and knowledge of Brooklyn is horrible.

Posted by: guest at November 6, 2007 2:36 PM

2:29, this is just two blocks from a ton of other hasidim buildings on Bedford and Flushing.

Posted by: guest at November 6, 2007 2:45 PM

2;29, you don't know your ass from your elbow.
as 1:26 said, this is an armpit.

dumbass.

Posted by: guest at November 6, 2007 2:59 PM

Why does Jewish housing have to be so cheap?

I won't make the obvious joke. But you know it's true.

Posted by: guest at November 6, 2007 3:37 PM

this area is intensely hasidic as they move down from south wmsbrg into bed stuy and boarder clinton hill. go check it out. the building is actually contextual! (first time for scarano??)

Posted by: guest at November 6, 2007 3:55 PM

I am not jewish, but I don't think we should generalize jewish housing as cheap 3:37. Like every racial group in this city, you will find people living in all social-economic conditions. But I think the housing you are refering to is this warehouse style housing that seem to popping up within jewish communities. 2:00 made some interesting points. These apartment bldgs were creating to deal with the overcrowding of immigrant european jews who follow the lubavitch sect. Former mayor Ed Koch made a committment to increase housing for this population by using both city owed property and tax incentives for developers. What made these projects work was the private capital raised from Isreali investors that shifted some of the responsibility away from the city. Most of these projects were certified section 8 buildings that subsidized rental payments to the owners. So tenants were fasttracked through the social service (welfare) agencies with lighting speed with the help of a friendly mayor. To the former mayors credit, he initiated some bold housing plans in other parts of the city including the south bronx and harlem. But, with these projects depending solely on city funds....well you know the story. But back to your question about why these bldgs. look so cheap. Its because most of them are equivalent to public housing, financed with public and private funds. It seemed to be a great partnership at first, but than the evil color of money began to darken the sky and people abused their power in city hall, and poor people of spanish decent began to lose their homes and neighborhood to backdoor deals that ultimately set the climate that lead to the Crown Heights riots and the removal of Ed Koch.

Posted by: guest at November 6, 2007 6:18 PM

You all need to give it up. This is Jewish housing and it is in a Jewish area. If you really live in this area you would notice that the area has either ANglos moving in or Jewish pushing down. And I am not Jewish but lived in this area for 32 years.

Posted by: guest at November 6, 2007 6:46 PM