262 Pacific Street: How's This Gonna Fly?

Right across the street from Pacifico. This tower will kill any sun that they have in the patio.

Also, at 12 stories, its VERY high for the neighborhood. It will be a finger off of smith street that will tower over everything around it.

The design, IMHO, is kind of Soviet industrial style, and not in a good way.

Posted by: guest at January 2, 2008 10:17 AM

It LOOKS like a detention facility...

Project must be killed.

Posted by: guest at January 2, 2008 10:17 AM

We need more apartments and space. I find it ugly, but I've got nothing against it.

Posted by: guest at January 2, 2008 10:22 AM

I'd take a fugly fedders building for asshats and fucktards over this!

Posted by: guest at January 2, 2008 10:38 AM

From what you can tell from this drawing it looks like 12 construction trailers stacked on top of one another.

Posted by: guest at January 2, 2008 10:44 AM

Great to start the fresh new year out with the same old vitriol over buildings.

Perpetually angry brownstoner readers: time to move out of Brooklyn. You clearly no longer like the borough.

Posted by: guest at January 2, 2008 10:44 AM

Those windows look like absolute horse shit. What are those, vinyl sliders? I made a better building out of Legos when i was 8.

Posted by: guest at January 2, 2008 10:45 AM

New Years are meaningless. I barf at least once a year too.

Posted by: guest at January 2, 2008 10:46 AM

Looks ugly but please STFU about contextual nonsense - it is 12 stories for goodness sake, hardly a skyscraper - Brooklyn Heights has more than a few such buildings scattered amongst its Brownstones and it causes no catastrophes

Posted by: guest at January 2, 2008 10:47 AM

The design of the building, according to the architect's website, takes special pains to "avoid views of the downtown correction facility."

"Special Pains"??
I'm confused, How painful is it NOT to put windows on a side of a building?

NYC's new architecutre stinks, there is nothing innovative, original or aesthetically pleasing.

Posted by: guest at January 2, 2008 11:20 AM

Lets hope the real thing looks better than early 70's look that this rendering suggests
(if they do get ever get approval).
Does seem a bit tall for a side street and one that is not very wide. Atlantic Avenue is better suited to taller buildings.
The block across from this, especially toward smith, (atlantic/smith/pacific/Boerum pl) is very underbuilt. Unfortunately haven't seen any building plans submitted for those lots yet.

Posted by: guest at January 2, 2008 11:48 AM

10:44 = fugly building's developer or architect.

Posted by: guest at January 2, 2008 11:51 AM

I used to live on this block. Ugliest block in the entire area. Street is narrow, and it's already pretty dark because of the existing apartment houses. This lovely new addition will only make it worse.

Posted by: guest at January 2, 2008 12:16 PM

Check out the sizes of the apartments.... They seem small. 778sq ft for a 2 bedroom, 500sq ft for a 1 bedroom and 442 sq ft for a studio?

Posted by: guest at January 2, 2008 1:32 PM

As a rental the 2-beds can be small for two singles sharing. Glad to see it's not another condo. And it is a dark, ugly block.

Posted by: guest at January 2, 2008 1:39 PM

Teeny Tiny Apartments. In a 2-bedroom unit, there is a kitchenette...Please. This should a standard of living.

Posted by: guest at January 2, 2008 2:33 PM

What ever it looks like its going to block all the natural light that comes into the side of my apt.

Are these Condos or Rentals?

Posted by: guest at January 2, 2008 3:05 PM

So this falls outside the border of the 50' height limit?

what a god-awful mess. The view from the prison will be far worse than the view from this thing.

Posted by: guest at January 2, 2008 3:31 PM

Well at night the prison looks like any other building in the area.

Posted by: guest at January 2, 2008 3:33 PM

Not a prison -- a jail. And looking at it is no worse than looking at most of the stuff that is going up these days.

Posted by: guest at January 2, 2008 4:37 PM

I think the architect should redesign the jail so inmates don't have to look at this building.

Actually, I think the funny little bump-outs are kinda neat. But the units are really small. And the 778-sf two bedroom is like 30% hallways. Bad floor plan.

Posted by: guest at January 2, 2008 4:55 PM

PLEASE MAKE IT STOP!
Who do I need to bother, annoy, give sexual favors to, etc., to make this stop?
And what on earth happened to the height limit?
How did this plan even get approved? It is truly out of character, not just for Pacific, but for a whole patch of Brooklyn that lies between Smith and Court whose buildings don't reach more than 4 or 5 stories tops.

Posted by: guest at January 2, 2008 11:04 PM

Yes, too tall. Those balconies look like the ones on the weird building on 4th Ave katty corner from Staples. Yes, very, very tall. I looked at the arch's website. They have designed restaurants in the meatpacking district, another neighborhood that lost the landmarking war. Have they not walked around this neighborhood?? Sure, build some cool building but NOT SO F'ing TALL.

Posted by: guest at January 3, 2008 10:32 AM

Well, just received notification that the foundation work for 262 Pacific Street will begin shortly (in NOT less than 5 days). It's strange that owner has never paid anyone for air rights. Strange and shady ........

Posted by: guest at May 2, 2008 7:05 PM

Maybe it's time for the neighborhood to come together and protest this monstrosity?

Posted by: guest at May 5, 2008 2:54 PM

if you want affordable housing, with the cost of land you have to build up. If you want to continue to gentrify these neighborhoods just keep arguing that everything short be short, NIMBY and I live in the area.

Posted by: guest at May 19, 2008 1:15 PM

if you want affordable housing, with the cost of land you have to build up. If you want to continue to gentrify these neighborhoods just keep arguing that everything should be short, NIMBY and I live in the area.

Posted by: guest at May 19, 2008 1:15 PM