20 Bayard: Website Ready, Building Not
The partial stop work order at 20 Bayard Street aka Karl Fischer Row hasn’t stopped the project’s web developers from staying busy. When it’s finally done, the 80,000-plus-square-foot building is scheduled to have 64 apartments and 45 parking spaces. As the flash intro to the new web site that launched on Fridaydoesn’t let you forget,…
The partial stop work order at 20 Bayard Street aka Karl Fischer Row hasn’t stopped the project’s web developers from staying busy. When it’s finally done, the 80,000-plus-square-foot building is scheduled to have 64 apartments and 45 parking spaces. As the flash intro to the new web site that launched on Fridaydoesn’t let you forget, the sales pitch is all about one thing: the views. No pricing info has been disclosed yet. Any guesses?
Development Homepage [20 Bayard] GMAP P*Shark DOB
Probably these jokers are from Mid-West! I’ve been living in Greenpoint-Williamsburg
for 25 years, these vinyl houses might be ridiculous for some but that Greenpoint.
Working class folks were living here.
If it wouldn’t be for the mayor who help changed the zoning, we wouldn’t have these ugly high-rise who are poorly builded.
Polish and irish have work hard to keep
the place clean and nice, it’s just too bad
that they have sold there sole to those developers aka acidic jews. It’s a shame!
do any of you jokers who are actually posting all of this crap even live in the area? As a lifetime resident of greenpoint thee fact that you are calling the houses ugly because they have vinyl siding is ridiculous. Where did you people grow up? If you don’t like the neighborhood then go back to wherever the hell you came from
Apparently the area in question sits on an old riverbed which required that these high-rises be supported by a series of piles in order to prevent differential settlement. I believe that the Ikon was built on top of an existing warehouse which has since been retrofitted with piles.
Being that the land is an old riverbed, I imagine that the water table is high and therefore the potential for flooding does exist. I am, howevever, only speculating!
Does anyone know the basement in the area of Bayard Street has flooding problems?
an architect designed this, right?
OK – that clarifies it. I guess I’m comparing to well-designed highrise construction, which is admittedly not that common. As I said earlier in thread, this is a particularly prominent location, so it really sucks to have such a banal building (or set of buildings) there.
I was using cheap in reference to the vinyl siding rehabs (midcentury!), but a lot of the condo construction going up is pretty cheap too.
i’m saying that – it’s just not that ugly. have you seen new condo or townhouse construction around the rest of the country? what the heck are you comparing it to? anyway who should determine the aesthetic? who would lead to establish the right look presented by this civic opportunity?
i personally think brownstones are butt butt ugly as are colonials (sure i may be in the minority here). i do like mid century a lot, but don’t see that happening in Brooklyn – so I’ll take these new looking buidlings anyday.
also, people on this site throw the word “cheap” around alot without any real information.
So, condo dweller, are you saying that ugly is the new contextual for Greenpoint & Williamsburg? Just because the recent past is cheap and ugly, we must now and forever build cheap and ugly buildings in North Brooklyn?
Sadly, developers in North Brooklyn seem to agree with you. Which means the civic opportunity presented by rezoning is being flushed away.
Orange brick, ick. Why?? Because it’s “Brooklyn”? Please no more brick.