"Tuscan" Townhouses Coming to Red Hook
Gino Vitale, a Red Hook builder, is converting a one-story garage there into five single-family houses with private, street-facing garages. The Brooklyn Eagle offered this rendering of the project, at 91-99 King Street, which Vitale said was inspired by a recent trip to Tuscany. The architecture firm on the DOB filings? Henry Radusky of Bricolage….
Gino Vitale, a Red Hook builder, is converting a one-story garage there into five single-family houses with private, street-facing garages. The Brooklyn Eagle offered this rendering of the project, at 91-99 King Street, which Vitale said was inspired by a recent trip to Tuscany. The architecture firm on the DOB filings? Henry Radusky of Bricolage. Those poor Red Hookers can’t catch a break. Remember this crap?
Stuymom…have you heard anything more about when Chicco is going to open Saraghina on the corner of Lewis & Halsey?? Although it’ll be Neopolitan (not Tuscan) I still feel its relevant to the thread.
Here’s the restaurant description…
http://nymag.com/daily/food/2008/06/naplesstyle_pizzeria_coming_to.html
SnarkSlope, I think you mean Klassy.
Looks about as Tuscan as the Olive Garden. Classy!
Holy crap, I just read the Brooklyn Eagle Story. He’s planning 20 more of these atrocities.
“Vitale, who has built more than 100 apartments and plans 20 more similar carriage house-style homes, also believes they offer great spaces for artists with their 16-foot ceilings, large rooms and large windows.”
Wow, this is bad. There is a similar building in Jackson Heights but without the garages. I have often wondered about how the design came to be. It does have many windows (luxury!) and high ceilings but looks sort of odd like somehing built during Roman times.
Given that a car comes in really handy when you live in RH, I think the garages are a good idea, but the overall “fortress-like” impression is a downer.
This has been advertised in the NY Times for months. I thought the picture had been this realtor’s version of “camera shy.”
As much as I like Red Hook, after lack of transport, this is the main reason I wouldn’t buy something there: clowns like this ruining the value of anything you own by putting up something like this. You know its going to be spray-stucco, preformed concrete lintels from Home Depot, extruded aluminum windows, Fedders for comfort, etc. The rendering looks like a suburban office park. What a shame – RH could really be a treasure.
Will they be selling the xxx ties out front like on the Rialto bridge in venice???