Development Watch: 357 Dean Street

1.15M...Seems like they over paid.

How much do they plan on selling each unit for?

Posted by: guest at July 9, 2008 1:01 PM

What a hideous building. Is this the fate of Brownstone Brooklyn?

Posted by: guest at July 9, 2008 1:21 PM

Concrete and steel, outstanding. What a beautiful budiling! Screw the woodframe! By your own admission it was rundown. You like it som much, buy it and do what you want with it. Trust me, we won't complain if you restore it.

Posted by: guest at July 9, 2008 1:42 PM

Horror of horrors, what is that noncontextual building next to this new condo? It's so big and protrudey!

Posted by: guest at July 9, 2008 1:51 PM

I'd be pissed if I were the next door neighbors. Huge loss of light with the jut -out, plus it looks as if they lost their lot-line windows, as well.

Posted by: guest at July 9, 2008 2:04 PM

Once we get all the old crap torn down and new condo buildings up, we'll all be in context again. Happy days.

Posted by: guest at July 9, 2008 2:12 PM

Lot line windows? Please explain?

Posted by: guest at July 9, 2008 2:23 PM

The woodframe ws a sweet, big, old home. But this is Brooklyn! No time for that crap! Build for the masses and charge millions per square foot!!! go go go!! before the masses catch on.

Posted by: guest at July 9, 2008 2:48 PM

"A year ago, a beautiful, albeit rundown, woodframe house stood at 357 Dean Street"
You are a moron!!
It was a beet up no back wall bad foundation SRO old crack house and the roof was falling in.
I live on the block and was in it before it came down.
It leaned 12”to the left, it’s life was over. Thinking this is a “beautiful, albeit rundown, wood-frame house” makes you a moron.

Posted by: guest at July 9, 2008 4:02 PM

"a beautiful, albeit rundown, woodframe house"

You are a moron!!
It was a beet up no back wall bad foundation SRO old crack house and the roof was falling in.
I live on the block and was in it before it came down.
It leaned 12”to the left, it’s life was over. Thinking this is a “beautiful, albeit rundown, wood-frame house” makes you a moron.

Posted by: guest at July 9, 2008 4:14 PM

Thank you 4:14 for setting the idiots straight. They see through their rose colored glasses or are still have flashbacks from the 60's. Damn that was good acid back then, wasn't it? Besides your description of this wood frame house, they absolutely no right to mandate shit. Money talks and bullhist walks. Property is still private around here, last I checked we are still a capatlist society. Don't like that, move to Iran or Cuba or something where they still have pipe dreams of a collective good. Don't forget your Burqa.

Posted by: guest at July 9, 2008 4:32 PM

Lot line windows = your wall goes right up to the property's edge. If you have windows in that wall, and new construction on the adjacent property also builds right up to the edge of the property line, you got no more windows. Sucks. You have no recourse. This happens a lot when a property that was single story switches to multiple story next door to you.

Posted by: guest at July 9, 2008 5:28 PM

That building was a DUMP. I used to live next door and they raised chickens in the back "yard." Although it was really more of a mud pit. There was NOTHING beautiful about that building. Good riddance! From what I hear the neighbors have not lost any light in the back and are pleased with the value this lends the block and their property.

Posted by: guest at July 9, 2008 5:49 PM

Guest 4:02pm is right - I went to see this property when they were asking a million for it. My girlfriend walked in and walked right back out for fear of injury and overall smell. There were holes in the floor, and everything was rotting. The biggest problem though was a tree that had gone unchecked between this property and the one next door to the right which had damaged the foundation and structure along the side of the house. Quaint as it might have appeared from the sidewalk, it was an absolute tear-down disaster inside with virtually no detail of any sort. So, without approving the ridiculous thing going up in its place, it absolutely had to come down before anything could be done with the property.

Posted by: guest at July 9, 2008 6:09 PM

"are pleased with the value this lends the block and their property."
Only if they are blind. What an eyesore.

Posted by: guest at July 9, 2008 8:16 PM

I doubt there WERE any lot-line windows... fire code requirements make them very expensive to install in this kind of configuration. It would suck to suddenly have that big building suddenly crowding your home, but on the other hand, is having a crumbling & vacant rat-hole next door preferable?

Posted by: guest at July 9, 2008 10:42 PM

8:16pm
I own property on the block and I am pleased with the value this lends the block and their property. Do you own anything??Or is your eyesores caused by sour grapes.

Posted by: guest at July 10, 2008 12:15 AM