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
mshook – “The Red Hook commute is not as bad as people pretend. Once you get over the concept of changing trains or doing a bus/train transfer, you are fine.”
THAT CONCEPT=bad commute; no way around it – sorry
We do not need streetcars – horribly inefficient – we need buses with dedicated lanes and the syncronization of some lights with the busses.
All a street car is; is a bus with a dedicated lane but can only ride on rails.
gemini10 – The other concern with red hook is that it floods fairly frequently. The city would need to put in some infrastructure to deal with that, in addition to building the light rail. At that point I agree, Red Hook could become very desirable.
I seriously wish that parts of Brooklyn could go back to having streetcars. A) I think they look cool and B) they’d open up a LOT of neighborhoods that suffer from distance-to-subway issues like inner Bed Stuy, Red Hook, and similar. Buses just aren’t a good enough solution due to traffic and such.
I thought the BQE killed Red Hook. The Red Hook commute is not as bad as people pretend. Once you get over the concept of changing trains or doing a bus/train transfer, you are fine. My morning commute to Union Sq takes 20-25 minutes from Van Brunt. The B61 is fine leaving Red Hook, but awful returning. But as someone else was observing yesterday, the return commute is often a more mellow experience. I love having many many options to get home; almost any train to downtown Brooklyn and then the bus from various points, or a relaxing walk from Carroll St. It is actually much more pleasant than when I lived in Carroll Gardens and was at the total mercy of the F.
I love RedHook so much and Tyburg – I think if the city would fund a rail-line/Lightrail that connected to the F – then I think that neighboorhood could boom. That is the most prized real estate in all of brooklyn, yes am sure people can argue about the projects etc – but I am talking the land that sits closest to the water and or views of NYC& Harbor…
This lot is not included in the MX rezoning that allowed Fairway and the apartments above to go through. This lot is zoned M1-1 and should be strictly commercial/industrial.
I don’t hate this. Then again, I think I live in a Radusky building so maybe my aesthetic has been dulled. What sort of commercial tenants are they going to get over there though?
By the way – was my comment OK? Since Mr. B just posted a purely aesthetic commentary about a building that is perfectly suited to being in Red Hook (a mixed residential, commercial, industrial neighborhood)… or is calling out this bullcrap not up to snuff?
Horror show?? – The building is attractive.
Is there anything you like?
If Redhook ever gets a streetcar, the electric/communications infrastructure is buried, and Brooklyn rids itself of another commercial area… then the properties that spring forth will be the $2+ million single-family houses that everyone thinks are “gorgeous”
Until then, maybe a business will be able to have an assembly and distribution shop or office space without having to be in New Jersey… and folks that are just looking for a home and “only” make $60-80,000 can actually get something. (Maybe)