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]
How about we eliminate *on-street* parking, plant grass and trees between the sidewalk and the street, and then allow curb-cuts to whoever wants them? City-subsidized free parking goes away, green space increases, cruising for parking goes down…
11:02, I speak for most natives and long-term residents. You are clearly one of those people who were destined to move to Jersey but were too much of a lemming to do so when Brooklyn became cool.
10:46 That is total Bullshit. “We”. Since when did you start paying my mortgage? I don’t care what you think of how I live.
“As a born and bred Brooklynite…”
Park Slope doesn’t count, you commie.
As a born and bred Brooklynite, I am beyond disgusted by the comments on this thread. “Property rights” is the call of the suburbanite. Here in the city we put the urban fabric and architectural integritiy of our neighborhoods over personal convienience. The idea that the owner can destroy his building how ever he wants is totally repulsive and foreign to any real urbanite.
How many of the “anti-suburbanization” tools on complaining on this site about automobiles and garages are escaped suburbanites who have come to the city to live the urban life they fantasized about (rather than experience the urban life that actually is)? Silly carpetbaggers and your archaic urban utopia fantasies, cities are for people!
Assuming no laws or codes are being violated and you still don’t like, move back to where you came from.
Their house, their decision, as long as it’s legal.
Owning a car is the main contributor to the suburbanization of Brooklyn. Take the damn subway, morons!