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December 4, 2007

New Development: The Absolute Launching on Myrtle

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The 35-unit development at 111 Steuben Street, hereafter to be known as The Absolute, is open for business. Or at least it will be soon. A large banner proclaims the condo's new name and it now has a page on the TDG website. There are no prices listed yet, but we've got it on good authority that prices for the mix of one-, two- and three-bedrooms will range from about $380,000 to over $1 million. We think this is a pretty good looking building, especially for an area that's seen its share of crap recently. How 'bout you?
111 Steuben Street [The Developers Group] GMAP
Development Watch: 111 Steuben/543 Myrtle [Brownstoner]
Development Watch: Myrtle and Steuben [Brownstoner]




Posted by Brownstoner at 12:04 PM | Comments (39)
Categories: Clinton Hill, Condos

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If they can just blow up the BQE this place'll be great.

Posted by: guest at December 4, 2007 12:12 PM

It looks to me like an office building out on Long Island somewhere, one that would have a bank branch and a nice restaurant on the ground floor. I could never warm up to it as a home...but then, my type of home tends to feature crumbling gargoyles or peeling paint.

Posted by: Brenda from Flatbush at December 4, 2007 12:12 PM

if it's being marketed by TDG, it will probably be overpriced.

Posted by: guest at December 4, 2007 12:13 PM

Looks like an 'absolute' office building to me...

Posted by: guest at December 4, 2007 12:19 PM

That's residential? It looks like a 1950s modern architecture-era office building.

Posted by: guest at December 4, 2007 12:28 PM

I think this building looks more like an office building in suburban NJ than an apt building in the city. The location isn't great (not great public transport), but at least Myrtle is improving as far as stores, bars and restaurants. Maybe this will look more inviting when the new Pratt building is finished across the street.

And Smith & Nobel should hang flyers in the lobby of this building - lots of business for them...

Posted by: guest at December 4, 2007 12:29 PM

I love the BQE, so I'd love ABSOLUTE!

Posted by: guest at December 4, 2007 12:30 PM

it looks like an office building

Posted by: guest at December 4, 2007 12:32 PM

It looks like my 1960s-era middle school. Bad memories.

Posted by: guest at December 4, 2007 12:36 PM

what an awesome commute on the G train from Classon. So convenient, and only a cool million!!! people have lost their minds...

Posted by: guest at December 4, 2007 12:51 PM

Whenever I drive by this building it does remind me of the office buildings in Jersey or Garden City L I with the TGIF or Houlihans on the ground floor. Someone hit it on the head as I was thinking the same thing.

Posted by: iluvclintonhill at December 4, 2007 1:01 PM

Would Mies be proud of this?

Posted by: guest at December 4, 2007 1:03 PM

I'll grant you that it's Modernist and that it looks like an office building, but sweeties, they ain't building office buildings this attractive in New Jersey or Long Island. This building is sleek and cool, and I'm delighted to have it in the hood. Anybody know if Brooklyn Industries is really going to open big retail on ground floor?

Posted by: Rehab at December 4, 2007 1:06 PM

i like it. i'll be curious to see the interiors. it's a good location-close to pratt and the stretch of myrtle that has seen a huge boost in the past few years. that area will continue to expand and improve---i know, because i can see the future.

Posted by: guest at December 4, 2007 1:14 PM

i like it. i'd live in an office building from the 50's if i could.

this is cool, not a hood i'd choose at all, but cool.

Posted by: guest at December 4, 2007 1:15 PM

It's really no worse than Richard Meier's "Suburban Office Parks for Living."

Posted by: guest at December 4, 2007 1:33 PM

If any of you happend to notice the area its in. This building follows the industrial theme, like the buildings that surround the BQE extension on that end. Hopefully the apts are lofty aswell....

Posted by: LiveFreeOrDie at December 4, 2007 1:59 PM

Browstoner has lost his mind.Are the developers paying to say" We think this is a pretty good looking building"?. This looks like a low-level cheap office bldg.

Posted by: guest at December 4, 2007 2:00 PM

Take a walk down Bedford Avenue a few blocks away and we think you'll see what we mean about this being better than other new construction in the area...

Posted by: brownstoner at December 4, 2007 2:03 PM

Is that it? It look like someone built the first few stories of the McGraw Hill building and ran out of cash...

Posted by: guest at December 4, 2007 2:14 PM

I agree that this is hideous. Brownstoner, I'm sad to say that you seem to think that any new building that's not a fedders special is nice

Posted by: guest at December 4, 2007 2:56 PM


this looks like a cheap knock-off of a 1960's SOM office building.
This is going to be residential?
They have lost their minds!
It looks like Port Authority offices.


Posted by: guest at December 4, 2007 3:11 PM

1:03, No Meies would be disgusted by this monstrosity. This is a really sad attempt @ the finite element styling of an office mini tower. Where is the elegance and creativity? Schizen!

Mr B, while I really dig your work I have to say you've got this one totally wrong. You didn't like the Kodachrome bldg but think this pile of crap is good??

Posted by: guest at December 4, 2007 3:41 PM

Come on now, if this was 10 stories taller it would look like so many of the residential fish-tanks that have proliferated over the last few years. Not that much worse than On Prospect Park, is it?

Posted by: LM at December 4, 2007 3:41 PM

I think I found the rest of it: http://www.brownstoner.com/brownstoner/archives/2007/08/glass_construct.php

Posted by: guest at December 4, 2007 3:44 PM

3:11 pm
like the port authority garage

Posted by: guest at December 4, 2007 3:46 PM

Pretty good looking building? Huh?

Posted by: guest at December 4, 2007 3:58 PM

Those $380,000 apartments will be worth $280,000 in three years. Oh wait, its on the G? Make that $240,000.

Posted by: guest at December 4, 2007 5:53 PM

I don't like it! Looks totally out of place on this particular area of Myrtle Ave. You have the C-Town across the street and some odd old-ish strip mall type action happening on either side of Myrtle. When I fist saw it, I thought it was part of Pratt-U like the library building right across the street. They look like the same designers got their paws on them. Too much office building-like to be residential. Some concrete here and there would have warmed this up some.

Posted by: guest at December 4, 2007 8:16 PM

"We think this is a pretty good looking building, especially for an area that's seen its share of crap recently. How 'bout you"

It really isn't good looking. It is green tinted glass and looks like a circa 70s library in the UK, or a state school, or the offices of Werhnam Hogg (The Office). If you don't believe me:

http://picasaweb.google.com/y.tsugihiro/TheOfficeSloughRickyHammersmithApollo/photo#5111908164457552930

depressing. Absolutely nothing like One Prospect Park which has the sheets of glass, not the glass squares fitted into a frame.

Ugly outlook from the windows as well! watch the crawl up myrtle each evening. And around there are the depressing rusty bird-caged windows favored by the Hasids.

Ugly ugly ugly.

Posted by: guest at December 4, 2007 9:03 PM

This is to pre-war apartment buildings what plastic plates are to Limosges.
This is a disposable building.

Posted by: guest at December 4, 2007 9:04 PM

This is a piece of shit. Shame on whatever stoned out of his head architect designed this. Were you channeling Gordon Bunshaft?
You got a bad connection.


Posted by: guest at December 4, 2007 9:13 PM

No comment on the building itself, but we're about to leave the area. We live on Waverly and Park, and the lack of public transportation is just too much. Four years of riding the bus to York or Jay Street was enough.

Posted by: guest at December 5, 2007 12:50 AM

Curious why developers use The developers group, they lost like 4 buildings in the last few weeks to other brokers because they obviously don't know the market and they can't sell anything. That building on Spencer hasn't sold ONE unit! They are synonymous with crap!

Posted by: guest at December 5, 2007 9:29 AM

Who freaking cares what a Mies or a Corbu would think about these things?

Posted by: guest at December 5, 2007 9:33 AM

i don't think it looks bad. everybody is so critical. i think the atrocities going upon 80 dekalb, and myrtle and flatbush are so much more uglier and despicable than this.

the only thing i don't get is, how do you walk around your house naked when everything is made of glass?

also, who is quest? and why does he/she have to post 29 times on the particular building comments list?

Posted by: cgriggs at December 5, 2007 11:22 AM

Other than the metal panels, it looks a helluva lot like OPP. Same green glass set in frames. Same exposed white columns.

Posted by: guest at December 5, 2007 1:15 PM

I live down the street from this building and I thought it was a Pratt 'thing'...i just think that it is out of line with the neighborhood...but then again I am not sure anyone in the neighborhood is expected to by such a place. As far as transportation I don't think it is anymore difficult then living in DUMBO, CGarden, or some other areas of brwnstone brooklyn. The transportation has not stopped folks from moving into the neighborhood and the 38 bus seems to be doing brisk business as the locals make their way to the Q,N,R,W or the 4,5,2,3 train lines.

Posted by: brooks215 at December 20, 2007 12:49 PM

I went to Pratt I would not want to live across from it

Posted by: Pragonetti at April 17, 2008 2:31 PM

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