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]
It is a beutiful thing! I Have my own and watch people doing 30 minute circles around the block while I pull in and out anytime I want. Blocking my driveway? No problem. Call 311 and you got yourself a ticket and a tow. Tax dollars at work. You would have one too if you could, stop your nonsense or go hug a tree. Either way, I don’t give a shit. A driveway in prime brooklyn? Priceless!!!!!!
What’s funny is the presumption that you are entitled to a car (at least one!) and a parking space when you move to a historic neighborhood that was hardscaped long before the age of the automobile. Kind of like moving to Anchorage and then whining that there aren’t any palm trees (and then putting an ugly heated bubble around your house to grow some in). Real old-school urbanites and brownstoners take public transportation or rent Zipcars or mooch rides from others, and lord it over the rest of us. And people who are wedded to their cars move to proto-suburbs like Flatbush, where they built garages for the Model Ts and started us on the slide to perdition.
I think 10:12 is a stark raving lunatic.
Why does NYC seem to attract these total whack jobs? It is not a city that is kind to the feeble-minded.
Move to a hippie commune in Montana you asshole!
Leave real people alone.
For people that want to stop the degradation of our neighborhoods and the privatization of sidewalks through curb cuts, please join the Coalition to Curb the Use of Curb Cuts.
http://www.nycstreets.org/projects/coalition-to-curb-the-use-of-curb-cuts/
The existing members all own legal curb cuts but think that they should be regulated, removed and/or taxed heavily.
Political pressure needs to be built to make new ones illegal and get old ones taxed or removed. Parking cars in urban, pedestrian friendly areas should not be free or easy for anyone.
Curb Cuts are bad because they:
-Expose pedestrians – especially children shorter than cars – to moving traffic;
-Allow driving on sidewalks;
-Encourage parking on sidewalks;
-Make pedestrians feel more vulnerable;
-Facilitate driving and short trips;
-Create inactive sidewalks with limited transparency to buildings;
-Subsidize car parking;
-Arbitrarily remove on-street parking spaces from the public;
-Are sooo suburban and ugly!
The big drawback of brownstone living is lack of parking. I wish I didn’t need a car, but I do. And it is a challenge to keep it safe and unticketed in Park Slope. I wish I had a garage. It is the single thing I envy my friends in the burbs.
better solution 8:25
I let my leaves eat hipsters.
I let the hipsters eat my leaves.
One less parking spot for all the asshat drivers! Thumbs up to the owner of the building!