Real Photos of Carroll Gardens Bastard
A couple of readers kindly emailed us some fresh photos of our latest pet peeve, the abomination at 45 Third Place in Carroll Gardens. The pictures (two more of which are on the jump) speak for themselves. Carroll Gardens “Bastardization” Hits Market [Brownstoner] GMAP Carroll Gardens Atrocity [Brownstoner] Top photo by James Di Liberto; bottom…
A couple of readers kindly emailed us some fresh photos of our latest pet peeve, the abomination at 45 Third Place in Carroll Gardens. The pictures (two more of which are on the jump) speak for themselves.
Carroll Gardens “Bastardization” Hits Market [Brownstoner] GMAP
Carroll Gardens Atrocity [Brownstoner]
Top photo by James Di Liberto; bottom two photos by Jackie Ruvolo.
Maybe they’ll go all “Frank Gehry” and put some twisted and dented sheet metal over the cinderblocks and trick it out, all “Bilbao”-istic.
Got to love that “Deconstructivism”
(see “wikipedia” for definition)
Or
Maybe Christo will wrap it in Saffron coloured tarps, “Reichstag”- style
Looks kinda like a brownstone gettin’ humped doggy-style by another building.
I’m talkin’ DEEP penetration too.
Looks kinda like a brownstone gettin’ humped doggy-style by another building.
I’m talkin’ DEEP penetration too.
Makes we wish I had two giant thumbs in order to SQUEEZE that sucker off the wall like the festering pimple it resembles.
tetris!
oh come on now, folks. maybe the owner is in dire straits and was FORCED to do this. like, maybe s/he suddenly accidentally adopted 3 russian orphans who felt totally lost and disoriented in a charming, quaint old building and cried themselves to sleep every night until the owner promised them soviet-style cinderblock accomodations. and they each insisted on having a whole floor to themselves. and two of them insisted on balconies. you never know.
‘Everything Now Is Negotiated Downward’
A housing report from the New York Sun. “Veteran real estate broker Deanne Esses said eight people in her Upper East Side office on Madison Avenue are leaving their jobs for alternative careers. Those eight represent 20% of the office’s sales staff.â€
“That’s only the beginning. Ms. Esses said she thinks more New York City brokers will be leaving the scene. ‘Business here is just not quiet; it has dropped dead over the past few weeks,’ she said. ‘At the same time, there’s a flood of inventory on the market. We run open houses, we run advertisements, but nothing works. There are no buyers, and without buyers, there are no sales.’â€
“Ms. Esses made these noteworthy observations: Everything now is negotiated downward from the initial asking price, by a minimum of 5% to 7%. Prices are down at least 10% from a year ago on practically everything.â€
“The Upper West Side is moving very slowly. The Hamptons have turned especially soft. ‘We’re in a transition stage where sellers will have to come down in price, and right now it’s a waiting game to see what the buyer will do,’ Ms. Esses said. ‘Since there’s only one Manhattan, I don’t see a crash. But who knows?’â€
“Real estate appraiser Jonathan Miller also cites a sharply slowing trend, with actual sales activity flat. There’s a big gap between buyers and the sellers, and more realism will be required by the sellers, he said. His reasoning: swelling inventories, especially condominiums.â€
Eeeeehhh, it looks like the new construction is trying to swallow the old building. I can not imagine any cladding of the block that would redeem this hideous perversion.
“It looks like a bomb shelter fell from the sky and landed on that poor brownstone.”
“engulfed by tumor”
“looks like an elephant mounting a gazelle”
agglomeration+abomination=
agglomination! how’s that for a “mashup?”