St. Felix Street Twins
This pair of buildings, at numbers 54 and 39 St. Felix Street, look like they belong a few blocks further West around the Fulton Mall rather than on a brownstone block, albeit one of the less impressive ones in Fort Greene. The building on the right is a little worse for the wear, having been…
This pair of buildings, at numbers 54 and 39 St. Felix Street, look like they belong a few blocks further West around the Fulton Mall rather than on a brownstone block, albeit one of the less impressive ones in Fort Greene. The building on the right is a little worse for the wear, having been stripped of much of its original facade. Nevertheless, it still has what may be our favorite element–the original barn-style doors. When do people thing these were built? 1890s? GMAP
we live in 39. these were both built from the ground up in 2001 on empty lots. our facade was unfinished when we bought it. the facade on 54 is actually styrofoam, which doesn’t appeal to us at all, so we finally got around to finishing it and decided to give it a modern finish like the one on the David Salley’s home on the corner of Hanson and So Portland. we’re almost done with the new window installation. ck it out.
funny to read all the conjecture and wrong assumptions about your own home.
New construction. Same developer who has the Firehouse condos on St. Felix. Did all of those sell yet. Despite all of the complaints he does deserve some credit for investing in Ft. Greene extensively and also for recreating facades of other historic bldgs to the point where there is debate about whether they are new or old. Definitely new.
Yes, does beat Fedders. But that’s a very, very low standard.
Beats Fedders, though, no?
This is HYSTERICAL! My horrible contractor Crown Construction (whom I fired when I found out he used unlicensed sub-contractors on my house) built these houses. He fancies himself an architect/developer and has man, many properties he’s developed in the area. He copied the facades from a buidling on Atlantic Avenue (I think between 3rd and 4th Aves but I could be mistaken.) He is the biggest crook I’ve ever met. DON’T ever buy a condo built by him or use him as a contractor unless you want a huge headache!!!!
Now that we think about it, the facade of the one on the left did give us pause when we were looking at it–the cornice in particular–but we just assumed someone had rehabbed it recently. Duped!
stoner:
also, there are sooo many reasons why they might look different…lack of materials, different widths, different party walls, lack of money by the respective owners, etc.
I don’t think that fact is conclusive of anything.
stoner:
you don’t have the addresses wrong…just the date.
this was definitely new construction.
click on this link (from the DOB website), http://a810-bisweb.nyc.gov/bisweb/ItemsRequiredServlet?requestid=4&defaultdisplay=y&allisn=0000396455&passjobnumber=301150153&allbin=3827370, and it shows the foundation work, sewer hook-up, etc. clearly new construction. sorry.
The buildings are definitely old. You can tell just by looking at the photos. The doorways and ground level treatments are not new, the cornices aren’t new, and the general shape and structure of the facades leads me to believe they are at least 100 years old.