Closing Bell: There Goes the Front Yard
Clinton Hill just got a little uglier—and a little more difficult to find a parking space in. The owner’s plan to cut the curb and turn the front of the ground floor at 174 Clinton Avenue into a parking garage that we reported back in November is coming to fruition. A reader sends in this…
Clinton Hill just got a little uglier—and a little more difficult to find a parking space in. The owner’s plan to cut the curb and turn the front of the ground floor at 174 Clinton Avenue into a parking garage that we reported back in November is coming to fruition. A reader sends in this photo that shows the concrete and facade demolition has been completed. How can this be? The property falls just outside the historic district and just within the commercial overlay from Myrtle Avenue. The flipper’s gain is everyone else’s loss.
174 Clinton Avenue [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP P*Shark DOB
Cut and Run at 174 Clinton Avenue [Brownstoner]
So a garage is a value destroying proposition? I don’t think there are as many of you out there as you think. Find some good comps for this house. Then check what this one goes for, real estate slowdown be damned.
Do you really think there are more “respecters of the urban fabric and architectural integrity” than people who have a car and want to park it in their own garage? No.
What’s the most irritating thing about the self-proclaimed “new urbanites”?
-the snobbishness
-the delusions
-the desire to control others
-the hemp fabric stuck in the grille of my Hummer, and the patchouli stink that lingers after I run them down
So many choices.
11.18, I’m a 5th generation Brooklynite (we emigrated from Manhattan) and I think this garage/curb cut plan is a travesty. You don’t speak for all “natives”. Who cares how long someone’s lived here anyway, they can have their own opinion.
The moron owner is doing this not for his own car, but because he thinks this will increase the value of the home which he is actively trying to sell. I spoke with the broker months ago. It is a value destroying proposition. If the dipshit actually knew the market of people interested in these historic homes, he would know that ripping out the ground floor where the original dining room and fireplace would be located, to put in a garage is not only ugly, but not what the buyers’ are looking for in these old homes. Also, having a small garden out front to plant a tree and some shrubs for greenery and privacy, that most people want, will now be impossible. What a moron.
“Here in the city we put the urban fabric and architectural integritiy of our neighborhoods over personal convienience.”
You’re nuts, and I’m a born and bred Brooklynite, lifelong resident and homeowner. Believe me, if I could get a curb cut in front of my house in Crown Heights, I’d do it. No second thoughts.
“Here in the city we put the urban fabric and architectural integritiy of our neighborhoods over personal convienience.”
Funniest. Post. Ever.
Your altruism is admirable, if totally unbelievable.
So when Mr Developer Man comes a-knocking on your door and opens up a can of Eminent Domain Whuop-ass, you will happily give up your “personal convenience” for the sake of the “urban fabric?”
11:02/11:23– I asummed that you were born here and SHOULD have moved to the burbs where you can have the attached garage of your dreams.
11:18 I have a car but I do not need to have it under my feet at all times. I grew up in a brownstone and lived in one my entire life and the idea of needing–or even wanting!– a garage in the house is beyond absurd.
If there is ever a revolution it will be you and the other spolied, whining, pampered, lazy scum who are roasted on the spit. Can’t wait.
“I Speak For”. Did you get elected or something? Your problem 11:11 is the simple fact that you are speaking for anyone else but yourself and you are not doing that well either. Case in point, your assumption that I moved here. Wrong answer.
11:11, you speak for yourself and a bunch of delusional new brownstone owners. Natives and long-term residents, and in general real people with real lives, know that a car makes damn good sense in almost all of Brooklyn. That is, if you have to do things like shop for groceries, get out of the city once in a while and, horror, travel for work to places that the subway doesn’t reach.
Should you and your kind ever come to speak for most natives and residents, it won’t be Jersey that I move to, maybe Texas. And when the revolution comes, it won’t end well for your kind.