Abandoned Projects Mar Brooklyn Landscape
“It looks like a bomb hit over here. It’s just blocks and blocks of everything torn down, and most of the permits are expired,” Williamsburg housing activist Philip DePaolo told the Daily News. “What’s going to happen to all these sites? It’s blight.” Aborted development projects and their related quality of life problems are increasingly…
“It looks like a bomb hit over here. It’s just blocks and blocks of everything torn down, and most of the permits are expired,” Williamsburg housing activist Philip DePaolo told the Daily News. “What’s going to happen to all these sites? It’s blight.” Aborted development projects and their related quality of life problems are increasingly becoming a quality of life issue now that construction has ground to a halt on all but a few of the borough’s residential projects. “Speculators came in hoping to make money and ruined a nice residential neighborhood,” said Robert Bennett of the six-story condo development at 2485 Ocean Avenue in Sheepshead Bay which went quiet about a year ago. And developers don’t have any incentive to clean up or sell off their half-finished projects, as DOB doesn’t levy fines unless specific safety hazards can be cited. What are some problem sites near where you live?
Building Skeletons Haunting Brooklyn Nabes [NY Daily News]
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Also not a victim of the recent collapse, but the Carroll Gardens Hell building on Carroll Street continues to sit. And sit.
The enormous hole in the ground at Court Street (“The Collection”) near Sackett has got to be one of worst ones.
It isn’t a victim of the current economic collapse, but for longevity alone I have to nominate the building on Clinton Avenue, just north of Myrtle. The church on Waverly poured the foundation and put up the structural steel a decade or so ago and there it sits. It’s like the Ben Franklin ‘ghost house’ in Philadelphia, only rustier.
250 million dollars to paint a bridge!? please, give me and 249 other people a million bucks each and we’ll have that painted by 8pm tonight.
Rob, that is the truest and funniest staement i have read in quite some time
the government should just finish these projects up and make them affordable to lower and middle income individuals and when i say middle income i dont mean someone with a duane reade part time cashier salary, i mean people with an actual median income of say 4o-50K instead of wasting 250 million dollars to paint a bridge. i just read about this morning. 250 million dollars to paint a bridge!? please, give me and 249 other people a million bucks each and we’ll have that painted by 8pm tonight.
*rob*
Thank you! Thank you! How many Retards was saying Albee Square Mall was a dump???!! These Retards never set one foot in there! They tore down a perfectly good building and left a gapping hole!
Albee Square/City Point
384/388 Bridge Street
80% of the Red Apple stretch of Myrtle
the entire BAM Cultural District
Dead Pool or Stalled Pool or Blight Me? City Point Not Moving
http://www.gowanuslounge.com/2009/02/18/dead-pool-or-stalled-pool-or-blight-me-city-point-not-moving/
We don’t know what’s up at City Point, the once grand development planned at a property originally owned by developer Joe Sitt–the Galleria Mall that he promised to turn into the “Belaggio†of shopping malls. (Guess “Bellagio†is Italian for sell it and tear it down?) In any case, what’s signficant about this, other the fact that the project is shrinking faster than one’s (deleted) in the waters off Coney Island this time of year
Albee Square Mall RIP..
The What
Someday this war is gonna end…
goldie, that was gold. ahhahahah
*rob*
Does anyone know if work continues on the building that had the fire on Stuyvesant bet Macon & Halsey??? I haven’t seen any activity of late but I get home after 6:00 usually.
PLG has fewer of these sites than most neighborhoods, but, off the top of my head, there’s:
The 185 Ocean Avenue hole, next to the soon-to-be new HD
The Lincoln Road “tower”–i.e. hole
An unfinished building on Hawthorne Street, where construction seems to have stopped long before the bubble burst
An unfinished condo building on Sterling III
Just south of PLG, a vacant lot next to “Lefferts South”
I’m sure I’ve left some out