Horror Show Friday: 8 Dikeman Street
Rather than resorting to Craigslist for some bottom-of-the-barrell action, today we present you with this gem at 141 Dwight Street in Red Hook that we spotted last Sunday morning on our way to Fairway. Couple interesting facts about the place: 1) It’s a commercial building and 2) it was designed by Henry Radusky. GMAP
Rather than resorting to Craigslist for some bottom-of-the-barrell action, today we present you with this gem at 141 Dwight Street in Red Hook that we spotted last Sunday morning on our way to Fairway. Couple interesting facts about the place: 1) It’s a commercial building and 2) it was designed by Henry Radusky. GMAP
Gracias… totally out of context with WHAT? You’ve been to the architecturally consistent neighborhood called Red Hook? Or is the context you speak of based purely on the house next to it?
fsrq – i guess we can agree to disagree… but I (and the thousands of folks like me) hope our side wins… eventually.
tybur6 – The fact that Bus routes can be adjusted and changed – demonstrates their efficiency. (and not sure how permanent Brooklyn trollys proved to be anyway) As for the rest of the problems you describe in terms of traffic and cars not respecting buses – it is not a problem with the bus but a problem with the bus lane….
it is far far far easier and cheaper to develop anti-car provisions (like offset heights, barriers, and enforcement mechanisms) for a dedicated bus lane – then it is to lay track, electric and signaling for trolley cars (billions less in fact). As for business and community development – both would develop far more easily without having to pay the tax on the enormous debt required to build an unnecessary new rail system, and would thrive just as well by people transported quickly and efficiently by buses as they would by people transported by streetcars.
Again the issue isnt the vehicle (or they type of wheels it has); it is just a matter of dedicating a portion of the surface roads for traffic-free for mass transit. Buses operating in dedicated lanes offer ALL the advantages of streetcars at far less expense.
It looks like a La Quinta Inn stacked on top of a loading dock. Totally out of context, but I’ve seen worse.
Is that marble on the first floor???
I have to say, when we drove by this building one evening to visit a friend who is renting in the building over Fairway (GREAT views!), I made my disgust clear to the husband unit. This building is kind of ugly from the street. I’m sorry.
The keystones over the windows are ridulous and the wide windows are ugly and a bad proportion…especially considering the okay little wood clapboard house next door.
With that proportion of window, they might as well have gone modern. The “medical office” rental bldg look, and in those colors, is a minor eyesore. Who needs more eyesores?
This is veering off-topic (i think with the new rules), but I think I might have started it by mentioning streetcars.
Streetcars are NOT buses. The track itself is something of permanence and something that business and community can grow up around. A bus route is NOT this. A bus route can shift and be erased from existence over a weekend.
By it’s nature, a streetcar requires more planning and community involvement and urban planning decision… it can’t just be “tried out” like a bus. Also right-of-way is much narrower for tollies/trams/streetcars — i.e., takes up less space.
You should visit cities with trams/trolleys — cities that do them well, Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, Stuttgart, Portland (small-scale, but effective), etc. etc. New York City could learn a lot!!
Has anyone ever taken a bus up an down Flatbush Avenue from, say, Atlantic down to Kings Highway?! PLEASE tell me how a streetcar/tram would not be a hugely TRANSFORMATIVE addition to that major corridor!? (And don’t tell me there are subways that serve the same route… if that was the case, then the busses wouldn’t be packed and getting trapped in traffic — car respect trains, they don’t respect busses.
I love the though of street cars but imagine VanBrunt St with one.
fsrq – If I thought people would respect dedicated bus lanes, I’d agree … but I don’t think they will.
fsrq, not being stuck on one crowded train = good times in my book.