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February 21, 2008
Terrapin Playground Reopening in May?
The revamp of Terrapin Playground, the section of J.J. Byrne Park that Shaya Boymelgreen and associates have used as a staging area during construction of the Novo, is supposed to be complete by May, according to a story in last week's Crain's (sub req'd). Work on the westernmost section of the public park (which will include a eight new handball courts, two new basketball courts, a skate area, and a dog run area) was originally supposed to be finished last summer. While we can't say that we've noticed a great deal of progress on the space since we checked in on it in December, it would certainly be terrific if the long overdue reopening were only a few months away and ready for summer.
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So when do folks get to move into Novo. It's been three or four years since they started that thing. The Pyramids at Giza went up quicker.
Posted by: guest at February 21, 2008 10:37 AM
Are people going to move into the novo? or is it just a facade for show.
Posted by: guest at February 21, 2008 10:38 AM
What do you care when people move in?
Posted by: guest at February 21, 2008 10:50 AM
i see a lot of units at the novo still available. hasn't this been on the market for a couple years now?
Posted by: guest at February 21, 2008 10:52 AM
What do you care that I care when people move in?
Posted by: guest at February 21, 2008 10:54 AM
10:52 i think they have been for sale for more like 3 yrs. you'd think the brokers would have the good sense to lower the prices to get these moving particularly in this market.
Posted by: guest at February 21, 2008 10:57 AM
They are dropping prices on some of the remaining units but not enough to matter.
Posted by: guest at February 21, 2008 10:58 AM
apts went on sale Mar '07. there are 18 available: http://www.streeteasy.com/nyc/building/343-4-avenue-brooklyn
Posted by: guest at February 21, 2008 11:03 AM
Boylemelgreen is so incompetent - it has taken 4 years to get "The Smith" finished (and it still isnt really).
I am willing to take bets that people wont be able to move in for months (figure August) and the Park will not be completed until the Fall at the earliest
Posted by: guest at February 21, 2008 11:04 AM
with the amount of new stuff available in the south slope now and the units slated for another couple of months, the remaining 18 units will not get sold at those prices
Posted by: guest at February 21, 2008 11:08 AM
Most Incompetent. Developer. Ever.
Posted by: guest at February 21, 2008 11:09 AM
"Most Incompetent. Developer. Ever."
Lamest. Post. Ever.
Posted by: guest at February 21, 2008 11:13 AM
Novo is a no go?
Posted by: guest at February 21, 2008 11:24 AM
11:13 = Chip Boymelgreen
Posted by: guest at February 21, 2008 11:27 AM
11:27 = brownstoner hack
Posted by: guest at February 21, 2008 11:28 AM
Walk past NoVo some time and it looks like the mortar is falling out already. POS.
Posted by: guest at February 21, 2008 11:28 AM
11:28 = nutless ninny
Posted by: guest at February 21, 2008 11:30 AM
Of all the non-issue 'controversies' this and other websites tries to serve up, this one is among the lamest.
A plot of cracked asphalt on 4th Ave is used for private construction on the grounds that it will be improved upon being handed back. It takes longer than (who?) expected, but it's over the winter when no one uses it.
Result? Outrage and complaining all day long.
Seriously, Gabby, find something more interesting to write about. You've recycled this one enough times already.
Posted by: guest at February 21, 2008 11:32 AM
11:30 = worthless trash
Posted by: guest at February 21, 2008 11:32 AM
11:32 = cumguzzing cocktard
Posted by: guest at February 21, 2008 11:34 AM
11:34 = sad
Posted by: guest at February 21, 2008 11:39 AM
11:39 = limited
Posted by: guest at February 21, 2008 11:42 AM
Novo is in slo-mo.
Posted by: guest at February 21, 2008 11:43 AM
this looks like a soviet gulag
ugly ugly ugly
4th ave wasteland where talentless architects go to die
Posted by: guest at February 21, 2008 11:46 AM
Novo is almost sold out. Just like the rest of Park Slope.
All you = people are bitter troll renters that couldn't buy something if your lives depended on it.
Sick, is what it is.
Get back to work and start feeding your family instead of wasting so much time telling people how lame they are for buying property and making money.
Posted by: guest at February 21, 2008 11:47 AM
Novo is a no show, yo.
Posted by: guest at February 21, 2008 11:47 AM
And they die doing blow off a crackwhore's chest in Le Bleu.
Posted by: guest at February 21, 2008 11:47 AM
Hey, you're right 11:47--I'm jealous. Jealous that I can't afford a condo that will never actually allow me to move in. And when it finally does, the cheap materials put up by cheap labor will reduce my "investment" to so much dogshit.
And by the way, I'm not a renter--I own a Brownstone. Two, in fact, which were built to last... unlike shingleshit like Novo that you're wishing you hadn't signed up to sell.
Posted by: guest at February 21, 2008 11:50 AM
Novo looks like a HoJo.
Posted by: guest at February 21, 2008 11:55 AM
Novo isn't even so-so.
Posted by: guest at February 21, 2008 11:58 AM
"Brownstone...built to last."
What an ignorant joke! They stopped using brownstone around 1900 because the rock isn't durable and carved details started crumbling. As for the structures themselve, the only reason some of them are still in reasonable shape is because of continual, expensive rehabing.
“Brownstone is not really used [anymore] because it's not durable, sedimentary rock falls apart over time with weathering. They used brownstone because it was easy to mold and carve but it just doesn't hold in the North East with the weather. Nowadays we use precast concrete and you can get the same type of molds out of that. It's a more common and cost effective material to use.” Says John Holland, President and Founder of Holland Development LLC. Holland Development specializes in brownstone restoration in the greater Boston area.
Posted by: guest at February 21, 2008 12:02 PM
Novo is dead as a dodo.
Posted by: guest at February 21, 2008 12:02 PM
I bet the people living in the Novo will have nice views of the hoodlums and thugs that will infiltrate the handball and basketball courts. Nothing fancy like a graffiti filled park.
Posted by: guest at February 21, 2008 12:03 PM
11:59 = one of my tenants
Posted by: guest at February 21, 2008 12:04 PM
Novo is as worthless as Fro-yo.
Posted by: guest at February 21, 2008 12:04 PM
Novo is sized for Frodo.
Posted by: guest at February 21, 2008 12:07 PM
i LOVE froyo.
Posted by: guest at February 21, 2008 12:08 PM
Carroll Gardens rocks!!!!!!!!!!!
Carroll Gardens rocks!!!!!!!!!!!
Carroll Gardens rocks!!!!!!!!!!!
Carroll Gardens rocks!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: guest at February 21, 2008 12:17 PM
Novo stinks like week old coho.
Posted by: guest at February 21, 2008 12:17 PM
Looks like 11:13 called it.
Posted by: guest at February 21, 2008 12:20 PM
Sorry, but CG's 15 minutes of Brownstoner fame are over.
Posted by: guest at February 21, 2008 12:20 PM
Frodo loves froyo. But not Novo.
Posted by: guest at February 21, 2008 12:20 PM
12:20 = left behind.
Posted by: guest at February 21, 2008 12:38 PM
Novo is faux, so?
Posted by: guest at February 21, 2008 12:43 PM
The only 15 minutes of fame CG had was the big mob bust.
Useless.
That neighborhood is good for nuthin.
Posted by: guest at February 21, 2008 1:07 PM
Why are they building a playground for turtles?
Posted by: guest at February 21, 2008 2:46 PM
The lady from the Stone House said the new dog run ribbon cutting was mid-May (17th I think?).
Posted by: guest at February 22, 2008 1:53 AM
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