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March 4, 2008
Development Watch: 110 4th Avenue
The planned site of a 49-unit building at Warren and 4th Ave. has been notable for its lack of construction activity over the past several months, but the job is going full-steam ahead again. (Several people told us the building wasn't going to happen, but those rumors now seem pretty specious.) Steel has started to rise on the property, which might eventually look something like the rendering at right that Tona Development published some time back. The architect of record on the project is Robert Scarano, and it's slated to be 120 feet tall.
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so into 4th avenue.
this is right across from the new ethiopian place, i think.
Posted by: guest at March 4, 2008 12:06 PM
Yuck - Scarano designs are always a little off.
Posted by: guest at March 4, 2008 12:15 PM
is this residential?
Posted by: guest at March 4, 2008 12:20 PM
Tonachio and Scarano, the same dream team that brought you 326 State Street which still sits vacant several months after two of the units supposedly sold at the first open house.
Quite apart from his troubled ethical background, Scarano should be de-licensed simply on the basis of how totally crappy virtually everything he churns out looks. He's really outdone himself on this POS though. Damn, it actually succeeds in making the Brooklyn House of Detention look good!
Posted by: johnife at March 4, 2008 12:21 PM
This is better than the Crest. Looks kind of like George Jetson meets Submarine Chic.
5th Ave/4th Ave are both on FIRE!
Posted by: guest at March 4, 2008 12:41 PM
Too close to projects. They have to price this accordingly to sell.
Posted by: guest at March 4, 2008 12:54 PM
Howard Roark lives.
Posted by: crouchback 2 at March 4, 2008 1:22 PM
Ready for occupancy in Spring 2017.
Posted by: guest at March 4, 2008 1:23 PM
Really - I think The Crest is nice - excluding the HORRIBLE 1st floor garage/vent-o-rama (luckily they arent putting in any landscaping to even try to hide that sidewalk monstrocity.
Posted by: guest at March 4, 2008 2:00 PM
Don't forget the giant hideous HVAC perched atop Crest. It's purest design genius!
Posted by: guest at March 4, 2008 2:19 PM
yeah, what were they thinking with that HVAC silver turd atop Crest?!
It's like a big target for ridicule from those uphill in Park Slope. You can even see it in all its gleaming monstrosity from Byrbe Park!
Lame.
Posted by: guest at March 4, 2008 2:49 PM
Heed the warning: this building brings with it the end times!
"And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from heaven fallen unto the earth: and there was given to him the key of the pit of the abyss. And he opened the pit of the abyss; and there went up a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. And out of the smoke came forth locusts upon the earth; and power was given them, as the scorpions of the earth have power. And it was said unto them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree, but only such men as have not the seal of God on their foreheads. And it was given them that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when it striketh a man. And in those days men shall seek death, and shall in no wise find it; and they shall desire to die, and death fleeth from them. And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared for war; and upon their heads as it were crowns like unto gold, and their faces were as men's faces. And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as teeth of lions. And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots, of many horses rushing to war. And they have tails like unto scorpions, and stings; and in their tails is their power to hurt men five months. They have over them as king the angel of the abyss: his name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in the Greek tongue he hath the name Apollyon. The first Woe is past: behold, there come yet two Woes hereafter.
And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the horns of the golden altar which is before God, one saying to the sixth angel that had one trumpet, Loose the four angels that are bound at the great river Euphrates. And the four angels were loosed, that had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year, that they should kill the third part of men. And the number of the armies of the horsemen was twice ten thousand times ten thousand: I heard the number of them. And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates as of fire and of hyacinth and of brimstone: and the heads of lions; and out of their mouths proceedeth fire and smoke and brimstone. By these three plagues was the third part of men killed, by the fire and the smoke and the brimstone, which proceeded out of their mouths. For the power of the horses is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails are like unto serpents, and have heads; and with them they hurt. And the rest of mankind, who were not killed with these plagues, repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons, and the idols of gold, and of silver, and of brass, and of stone, and of wood; which can neither see, nor hear, nor walk: and they repented not of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts."
Posted by: guest at March 4, 2008 2:49 PM
Who knew the End Times would be so banal?
Posted by: guest at March 4, 2008 3:00 PM
What are the End Times?
Is that like when you finally close on your condo after waiting 2 years to move in?
Posted by: guest at March 4, 2008 3:04 PM
Your right - so absent the 1st floor and the roof/ac I think The Crest is nice - considering some of the other things being built we should at least give credit where it is due - besides you can't actually see the 1st floor and the roof at the same time - so you only have to process on scar at a time.
Posted by: guest at March 4, 2008 3:09 PM
3:09, that's like saying: "Except for the goiter and the hammertoes, she's one good lookin' broad!
The Which
Someday this sore's gonna rend...
Posted by: guest at March 4, 2008 5:34 PM
gentrifying of 4th avenue? is it true?
Posted by: guest at March 4, 2008 5:43 PM
5:43 - Assuming you are not being fecitious, Dude where have you been?
Posted by: guest at March 4, 2008 6:40 PM
6:40-well i don't live in the slope so i didn't realize.
Posted by: guest at March 4, 2008 7:14 PM
Do you read Brownstoner much 7:14? Not trying to be a dick or anything, but this fourth ave thing has been one of the top 10 conversation pieces over the last year or so.
Posted by: guest at March 4, 2008 9:17 PM
This looks like the mutant bastard stepchild of the Clarion Inn LaGuardia.
And I don't hate the look of all of this wack job Scarano's buildings. But I hate this one enthusiastically.
In case you're not getting a mental picture of the Clarion Inn LaGuardia.: it's the mauve, Drivit symphony you see on your right when you're waiting at the light after you've just taken the exit to departing flights. Don't miss it!
Posted by: Rehab at March 5, 2008 12:26 AM
Be wary of anything that involves Tona Development. The company was the sponsor for a new eight unit park slope building where I currently live, and they have never resolved major problems with the construction, like a roof that has been leaking since we moved into the building. This is a roof that is under WARRANTY, and rather than being responsible, Tona has not responded to any correspondence or phone calls. Tona didn't even file the (J51) paperwork for the tax abatement. They don't deserve your money.
Posted by: shueston at March 30, 2008 3:31 AM
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