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March 25, 2009

Development Watch: 100 Luquer Street

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Anyone know what's going on with the 11-story development at 100 Luquer Street? We wrote about it last April and it doesn't look like too much progress has been made since then. It looks like the New Building Permit was renewed in January so maybe it is on track to get finished. Help?
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Posted by Brownstoner at 2:27 PM | Comments (18)
Categories: Carroll Gardens, Development

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This looks like a giant Pez dispenser.

Posted by: Biff Champion at March 25, 2009 2:40 PM

i was just crossing the foot bridge from red hook to carroll gardens and thinking "brownstoner needs to do a post on that building". thanks for reading my mind. we can see the construction on this very well from our windows, across the BQE. there's quite a bit of work that goes on, on the reserve side from this picture. but its been in the works for 2 years at least. looks like the exterior is almost done from this side but i don't have any more details than that. i'd love to know if anyone else does.

Posted by: hipsterpotamus at March 25, 2009 2:48 PM

"Filthy Luquer"

Posted by: Action Jackson at March 25, 2009 2:57 PM

fugly

Posted by: lechacal at March 25, 2009 2:58 PM

The Leaning Tower of Luquer

Posted by: SlopeBuppie at March 25, 2009 3:09 PM

Why are so many new developments so skinny these days? Is there a shortage of housing for anorexics?

Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at March 25, 2009 3:13 PM

Argh, that was mean, retraction please!

Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at March 25, 2009 3:14 PM

Nice and contextual.

Posted by: Boerum Hill at March 25, 2009 3:14 PM

I've lived in Carroll Gardens all of my life. I don't know of anyone who finds this ugly building an asset to our neighborhood. Just look at that picture, could anything be more out of scale?

Posted by: cggirl at March 25, 2009 3:40 PM

I think the House of Detention is nicer and more contextual.

Posted by: Biff Champion at March 25, 2009 3:58 PM

Is this residential? Looks like a giant filing cabinet for humans.

Posted by: 1910 at March 25, 2009 4:09 PM

The building is horrible - I mean really really horrible - but come on - "not contextual" and 'not an asset to the neighborhood' - the building is right next to the ugliest 8 lane elevated highway probably in the world.....and underneath the highway is probably the ugliest stretch of roadway in the world (Hamilton Ave)- What difference does this building really make - if anything - it is contextual - the context being horribly ugly everywhere.

Posted by: fsrg at March 25, 2009 4:14 PM

So, when is Carroll Gardens getting landmark status?

I understand the aversion to it, but this building is a giant concrete example of the benefit landmarking provides.

Posted by: christopher at March 25, 2009 4:14 PM

I live on 4th place and the back of my apartment faces this monstrosity. There has been very little activity in the last 3-5 months. Perhaps they are stalling finishing it so that they don't end up having to convert it to rentals. Still, I am just amazed that anyone would ever consider living in the first 4 floors that face Hamilton avenue and the BQE. Worse, I can't even imagine the price that they would ask for those apartments in this "Luxury" building. It is not just an eyesore that is sorely out of place in this neighborhood. To me it represents everything that is wrong with the over development of parts of Brooklyn and the greed of the developers doing it. I hope this builder is enjoying the recession.

Posted by: winden42 at March 25, 2009 4:35 PM

My friend's apt looks right into this building and there is absolutely NOTHING going on in there. Lots of frames and wires and stuff, but no walls and no progress.

@fsrg/winden: agree, the views are horrific, but what's even worse is that the upper floors, while avoiding Hamilton and the BQE, will have a direct shot of my friend sunbathing necked (he's looking forward to the perks that come along with his private roof deck...)

Posted by: Bklynight at March 25, 2009 5:21 PM

The Pez Building! Love it, Biff!

If anyone ever does move into this atrocity, their senses will be so dulled from BQE carbon monoxide that they won't notice the horror...

Posted by: Brenda from Flatbush at March 25, 2009 9:52 PM

FSRQ - thanks man.

Here I was, thinking I could cocoon myself in my 20x90 rectangle by setting up a nice garden, putting up a big-ass stone wall, rationalizing away the proximity to the "edge" of the neighborhood, etc. and along comes the double whammy: the Pez building (Biff, that rocks) and FSRQ.

What I'm really looking forward to now is all the extra cars that will need spots once Pez is open for business.

Posted by: lapmax75 at March 25, 2009 11:06 PM

of course the thing is ugly: its under construction!

c'mon guys...even the most beautiful brownstone would look awful if its gutted down to its scratch coat with all the windows removed...(okay, its out of context, scale-wise)

btw...i locked my bike up in front of a bodega in Carrol Gardens and when i came out the bike was on the docket to be landmarked...

Posted by: young archi at March 26, 2009 10:06 AM

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