Closing Bell: Homecrest Tower Upsets Nabe
Today the NY Daily News ran an article about a 53-foot development going up on a modest neighborhood block in Homecrest. The project would be illegal under current zoning, but the city Board of Standards and Appeals voted last week to let the owner build because he began work before zoning rules changed. The three-story…
Today the NY Daily News ran an article about a 53-foot development going up on a modest neighborhood block in Homecrest. The project would be illegal under current zoning, but the city Board of Standards and Appeals voted last week to let the owner build because he began work before zoning rules changed. The three-story development is supposed to become a single-family home, but a Community Board member suspects it may become condos considering there will be an elevator and an outdoor stairway. The development has come so close to a neighbor’s home they can’t see out of the window anymore. This will always stick out as this tower, making everything else look absurd, says the homeowner. It’s kind of like a selfish wart on our block.”
Neighbors Fume Over Towering House Project [NY Daily News]
Photo via NY Daily News
FlatbushMan23,
Your link does not work but I can only assume you are referring to 185 Ocean Avenue!
I posted this last week in the Bay Ridge dump thread. Think this guy in Homecrest thinks has it bad? Check this out:
http://beehivehairdresser.com/category/categories/bay-ridge-bastards/
Ugly building cantilevered over shared driveway?
Sounds familiar: http://bstoner.wpengine.com/brownstoner/archives/2010/03/development_wat_586.php
prezst, we live in the age of Google. If you didn’t know where it was (and I didn’t) it look less than 30 seconds to find out. It’s really not a big deal to have to look up where a neighborhood is.
one problem with this blog is that the authors presume its readers know the locations they’re writing about.. ‘homecrest,’ for example. often you provide no geographical context.. only a letter carrier is guaranteed to know some of these places. please start including cross streets or other information that might help both long-time brooklyn residents and recent arrivals better understand not only the ‘what’ of a certain location, but the ‘where’ as well.
Minard Lafeverand, Maly, and Bob Marvin have shared all the wise words on this…
This weather has been so unpredictable lately–would it surprise anyone if this bldg
was ‘discovered’ by lightening?
That is the most absurd building ive ever seen, It should be torn down. There are a million of these giant monster houses built from property line to property line on those lower East street blocks from Avenue U to Ave M. Many of the houses lyed on 40×100 lots or 50×100 and were built less than half the size of the lot, so these older smaller homes are being bought for $750,000-1.5 million dollars (depending on location) and are being knocked down and these ginormous creations are being put up from property line to property line, no backyards JUST HOUSE! But whats funny in this story is that the judge ruled against the current zoning laws…hmmm I smell pay offfffff, I bet if you searched that there’d be number of cases where the zoning law was just misteriously over ruled, all in that neighborhood…a certain community has a lot of pull($$$$) in NYC.
i have to say….would it be hard to ban cantilevers over shared driveways unless the other landowner consents or they get special approval.
It’s ugly and always unpopular with neighbors, but if it’s legal there are always going to be jackasses who do it.
Not so, kensingtonka. The upper stories of the new monstrosity are cantilevered over the shared driveway, so the wall is closer to it’s neighbor than any reasonable person would ever have imagined.