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Development Watch: S#!tbox on Underhill

Categories: Development, Prospect Heights

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This new two-family building going up at 112 Underhill Avenue may be the ugliest piece of crap we've had the misfortune to lay eyes on in recent memory. It would be hard to design anything this heinous if you tried. There should be a law...GMAP P*Shark DOB



By Brownstoner at November 16, 2009 2:41 PM | Comments (30)

30 Comments

By Butterfly on November 16, 2009 2:48 PM

wtf? it looks like a garage.. yes, pretty ugly. but i bet it's gooooooorgeous inside lol


*rob*

By Kensingtonian on November 16, 2009 2:59 PM

the one next door aint much better.

By bxgrl on November 16, 2009 3:05 PM

So there is a pecking order among fedders crap buildings. This one is way way down towards the bottom. Waaaaaay down.

By Brokedeveloper on November 16, 2009 3:07 PM

Norah Jones would probably want to add a few more windows to this one.

By architect66 on November 16, 2009 3:08 PM

welcome to Brooklyn.

By CarrollGardened on November 16, 2009 3:30 PM

OMG! I can't WAIT until this hits the market! I'll even get into a bidding war!

By tybur6 on November 16, 2009 3:31 PM

It was a perfectly respectable parking lot before... what happened!?

By Expert Textpert on November 16, 2009 3:32 PM

The house to the left. How is possible that the window is so close to the door. During construction how do you even frame that??

By dirty_hipster on November 16, 2009 3:34 PM

"The house to the left. How is possible that the window is so close to the door. During construction how do you even frame that??"

Clearly it's an architectural (sp) masterpiece and well worth the 650/psf they are asking.

By Brokedeveloper on November 16, 2009 3:36 PM

"The house to the left. How is possible that the window is so close to the door. During construction how do you even frame that??"

Makes it easy to open the door if you forget your keys.

By Expert Textpert on November 16, 2009 3:42 PM

Gotta give it to 112 Underhill, at least the windows line up, unlike the neighboring house.

"Makes it easy to open the door if you forget your keys."
Spoken by a true Broke Developer ;-)

By lifer on November 16, 2009 3:44 PM

I think they put it up backwards, I bet if you look in the backyard, there's a stoop, and some french windows.

By BSD on November 16, 2009 3:49 PM

Haters. You don't appreciate it for the exotic 3rd world charm it has.

By daveinbedstuy on November 16, 2009 3:50 PM

When a Starbucks goes up nearby, you'll all want it.

By LC Arnett on November 16, 2009 3:51 PM

If I'm not mistaken, the house to the left was an old wood frame which was redone 5-6 yrs ago. It was always a little two story place, similar to some that are down on Dean/Pacific streets. I don't personally like the smaller windows that they put in, but its actually not a bad looking house considering its tar paper and shingle beginnings. Whoever the owner is keeps its clean, neat and tidy, and it appears that there are actually 3-4 units (its got entrances on both Underhill and Prospect. It may actually have started out life as a carriage house or a garage, given its small stature in relation to the neighboring homes.

By nk on November 16, 2009 4:16 PM

Is it my imagination or are the cinderblocks not lining up on the second story, adding "quirky charm" to its "dormitory ambiance."

By Minard Lafever on November 16, 2009 4:19 PM

wow, this is real survivalist architecture. I wonder if there is space inside for a well and goat.


By JoeBushwick on November 16, 2009 4:38 PM

Not that I want to give the builder any credit but it looks like they are going to put some sort of facing over the concrete blocks - probably stucco, maybe brick.

By z on November 16, 2009 4:51 PM

this place sprung up virtually instantly, and it shows.

By bessie2 on November 16, 2009 5:36 PM

In the late 1990's I looked at the place on the left for possible development. It was for sale for $140K. It's definitely old construction and was never a prime building, even in its heyday. It's divided into 2 apartments, one upstairs - one down. We ended up not buying it because there was a spry 76 year old woman who had recently moved in and we don't want to be in a position where we feel we have to kick out seniors.

By Shoots and Leaves on November 16, 2009 5:43 PM

This looks like it was built by the same terrible architect who through-up 117 Underhill Ave right across the street. Just think, 50 years from now, some people in the neighborhood will be fighting tooth and nail to preserve the look of this garbage as it reflects the end of the ot's decade.

By Shoots and Leaves on November 16, 2009 5:44 PM

*Threw-up

By benson on November 16, 2009 6:55 PM

Ya think you might want to wait until the facade is built, before you render a final judgement?

By Big Jugs on November 16, 2009 8:07 PM

Benson, you are expecting too much from this crowd.

This will be worthless once AY is built...

By archigoddess on November 16, 2009 9:02 PM

Is this even legal for light and air calcs?

By Brooklander on November 16, 2009 10:17 PM

To Shoots and Leaves:

Threw up is right!
I'm told the builder is the same as @ 117 Underhill--
It's like a mushroom-- it pops up overnight but it's
still a fungus-among-us...

By werner on November 17, 2009 2:12 AM

this will sell for $4mm asap

By bupe on November 17, 2009 9:11 AM

Norah Jones should show this to her neighbs in Cobble Hill and see if they still want to whine about her adding windows.

This is "I threw up in my mouth" ugly. And then it leaked outside.

By STARGAZER on November 17, 2009 12:21 PM

What idiots are designing these apartments.

By grand army on November 17, 2009 1:16 PM

The building on the left was originally a store front. It was pictured in the Prospect Heights House Tour brochure of 2007 in a feature about why landmarking was needed so uregntly for the neighborhood! It was once a quite pretty, woodframe building (in a simple vernacular way) -- now sadly altered. But what's going on next door only adds insult to injury. It's especially lousy when one considers that the new construction and a sympathetic remodelling of the older building could quite easily be undertaken to make both buildings fit in better. But that corner is not landmarked and, as others have already pointed out, has already been desecrated. Too bad so few developers/small time builders give a xxxx.

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