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]
Get a life all of you.
5:15, I’m thinking I’ll buy a brownstone just outside a historic district of our fair borough. I’ll paint the damned thing yellow and red, and leave my giant Hummer in my newly paved front yard. Idling. Just for you.
506: As Roberto so nicely put it, it is a question of “Proportion and taste.” The later being something you clearly lack.
But by all means, blow out the garden level to put in a two car garage for your Hummer. Pretty soon the starbuck’s will have a drive-thru window, no doubt, and you can simply hop on your private elevator and zip down to the Hummer and zoom over to get your latte.
McBrownstones for McUrbanites.
I have a car and my window was smashed last week. I would love to have a garage, even if it meant offending snobby brownstoners.
5:06, anyone can put in a garage as long as they have space and can obtain the proper permits. They don’t need brownstoner’s approval, thank god.
Do any of you have a car? A garage means no more driving around looking for a spot, remembering alternate side rules, parking tickets, broken windows, car theft / car theft anxiety. Sacrificing a scrubby little front garden? I’d kill to have a garage in my house. All of you hippies.
I’m not sure a lot of you are getting this: it appears from the photos (and backed up by a search on the previous discussions of this project) that the owner plans on converting the front half (at least) of the lower level into a garage. The Hummer mentioned above will be parked IN the building…
Though it will probably add value (to some – and that’s what matters in selling) I’m sad to see this building defiled like this. I’m fairly certain the reduction in depth of the Bay window (to get the clearance) combined with the addition of a garage door will end up being less than sympathetic to the original design, which does appear to be quite good. Proportion and taste, anyone? Anyone?? Oh well.
5:02, by that logic the next house down can now put in a garage too, since it is next to one. And then their neighbor, and then their neighbor, and then…
You all are right, it really ruins the aesthetic, especially with the parking lot right next door. Get a grip, losers.