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August 18, 2008

The City's Most Prolific Architect

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Our own Gabby Warshawer has done some detective work on behalf of the New York Observer, discovering that the man responsible for designing the most buildings in New York City is Gerald Caliendo, a Queens-based architect with 1,604 single-family homes, affordable housing and apartment buildings, none of which are going to win any beauty contests. The third most prolific architect was Brooklyn-based Henry Radusky, who had 893 new projects okayed by the DOB, including a few we're familiar with, like the one above, taken in June.
Move Over, Howard Roark! [NY Observer]




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How wide is it?

Posted by: troll at August 18, 2008 10:23 AM

Who wants to meet up next door at Caddyshack for drinks and pool?? Then we can measure the width of this building!!!

Posted by: daveinbedstuy at August 18, 2008 10:31 AM

ill bring my 12 foot tape measure. Should be more then enough.

Posted by: troll at August 18, 2008 10:36 AM

Ayn Rand references: they're doing it wrong...

Posted by: deadnancy at August 18, 2008 10:42 AM

Anyone click on Caliendo's custom homes link? They're so tiny and such poor resolution you can't even tell what they look like. Maybe that was intentional?

Posted by: bxgrl at August 18, 2008 11:07 AM

Dear Henry,

Thanks so much for continuing the tradition of making the NEW 4th Ave more hideous. You really deserve as many tax breaks as possible for your creative use of space and the beautiful choice of materials. What I like most about your building on 4th Ave is the ability to piss me off every time I drive by on my way to Home Depot to see the cheap doors that I know you also picked out at the same Home Depot. It is nice to know that a master like you shops at the same store as me who is just a smuck who never went to that mail order architecture school.

Thanks
Billy

Posted by: billyboomer at August 18, 2008 11:39 AM

gee, billy- you didn't think that building was cutting edge? I'm shocked, I tell you. Shocked. Why anyone would think this..er.......lovely vertical paean to ....ahhh....a...piano keyboard is an asset to the community and a classic of its type. (Although it also kinda looks like a giant finger too now that I look at it.)

Posted by: bxgrl at August 18, 2008 11:47 AM

I believe this building has NO windows on the Carroll st frontage. What's with that? The only windows are at each end of the apartments, as if it were attached on both sides?

Posted by: cmu at August 18, 2008 12:02 PM

cmu,
I hate this P.O.S as well, but it does have windows facing Carroll Street.......

Posted by: owner12 at August 18, 2008 12:25 PM

owner12, and the House of Detention has windows facing lovely Cobble Hill, Brooklyn Heights and Boerum Hill, but I wouldn't want to live there...

Posted by: Biff Champion at August 18, 2008 12:49 PM

I'm not as upset by the aesthetics but what's up with the "one car parking garage" on the 1st floor instead of a lobby? That's the question I need answered.

Posted by: Mr Joist at August 18, 2008 1:54 PM

You could post this picture every day and every day I would chuckle. It's just so hilariously ugly.

Posted by: KHuebbe at August 18, 2008 2:07 PM

I still think it looks like shoe boxes stacked up.

Posted by: smeyer418 at August 18, 2008 2:09 PM

I'll take the...fifth one up. No, the sixth one up.

Posted by: KHuebbe at August 18, 2008 2:10 PM

I didn't know that Tupperware had branched into stackable apartments.

Posted by: SnarkSlope at August 18, 2008 2:19 PM

I'd rather convert the Auto repair shop and live in that.

Where u been Biff? On holiday as the Canadians say???

Posted by: daveinbedstuy at August 18, 2008 2:35 PM

this building is probably not a bad rental as it has about 9 windows per apartment. and actually its not all that terrible especially given what it replaced which i think is an empty lot. given the narrow lot i think they did an ok job. aren't we suppose to be creating affordable housing? just my 2 cents.

Posted by: mule at August 18, 2008 8:47 PM

The building is actually attractive when viewed from 4th Ave - to the Carroll St side. This angle is by far the worst. That said the car park on 4th Ave is a travesty

Posted by: fsrg at August 19, 2008 10:14 AM

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