Horror Show Friday: 170 Clermont Avenue
We just love what the developer has done with this this new four-story building at 170 Clermont Avenue. We’re dying to pick up one of those little eaves over the doorway for our place and that little nook he carved out to display the lovely Con Ed meters is to die for. And just imagine…
We just love what the developer has done with this this new four-story building at 170 Clermont Avenue. We’re dying to pick up one of those little eaves over the doorway for our place and that little nook he carved out to display the lovely Con Ed meters is to die for. And just imagine all the great parties the residents of the upper floors are going to be able to throw on their balconies. It’s great to see such creative, innovative design going on in Fort Greene! GMAP P*Shark
The only thing wrong with the building is the windows – which are way too small.
While it probably wont happen, larger windows will make this the most attractive building in the photo..
and DIBS – the building will be here in 15 years, 50 years and 100 years – if it is maintained … if porous brownstone buildings have lasted 150+ years, you can be sure that virtually anything today can last just as long (but you know that, you just like being dramatic in your posts)
bob! you should be ashamed! 😉
Sorry but I don’t see where commenting on design is elitist or snobby. And we shouldn’t forget that Brownstoner got started because Mr. B loves brownstones and old houses. Beautiful neighborhoods should be for everyone. There have been threads where we hooted and howled over someone’s decorating taste and I’ll be the first to admit that it was a bit snobby of us. But commenting on buildings like this do have more to do with structure, community impact and value. There are blocks in my neighborhood where beautiful old brownstones have been torn down and these g-dawful POS’s thrown up. It ruins the block, and they are built like crap. They do it because they think its a poor neighborhood and no one will care. And they’re wrong- this is exactly why CHNA so aggressively pursued landmarking- long before the neighborhood started seeing “gentrifyers.”
You guys are really being unfair to this developer. IMO the house is a brilliant post-modern homage to a ’50s PermaStone(â„¢) cover-up of a traditional row house. How witty! How far ahead of it’s time! Why didn’t you post this two days ago, Mr. B?
” because to me your zeal seems as much about snobbery and elitism as it is about architecture and real estate. ”
This is why developers build eyesore POS’s all over the place – because whoever objects is termed elitist and these concerns are dismissed. Demanding higher standards from developers altering our neighborhoods with the shittiest, cheapest condo buildings they can build is not snobbery. And I’m not suggesting city regulation – if more people spoke up then developers would maybe, maybe, give aesthetics 10 extra minutes of thought.
” post here and certainly find some of the information useful and many of the posts funny and insightful (yours among them), but unlike some posters, I’m not into helping Mr. Brownstoner pat himself on the back!”
I’m not going to look for it ENY because you are one of the few people that I like around here and you are now seeing the insanity of Brownstoner and the Retards who post here.
No Biggie ENY and BTW I would love to get a 2 Family in ENY with a driveway for under 200k! One of those Big Assed Brick Babies ; ^ }.
Be well…
The What (The What throws ENY a bag of Skittles)
Someday this war is gonna end…
Just for the record, I get very heated too. I just pretend no to (usually) on the internet.
“East New York I chucked to myself when you congratulated Brownstoner on the Asshead New York Times award (or something like that).”
What?? When did I do that?? I’m not into that, man! I must have been having a really off day if I did! I mean, I post here and certainly find some of the information useful and many of the posts funny and insightful (yours among them), but unlike some posters, I’m not into helping Mr. Brownstoner pat himself on the back!
meet you there boxgirl. tee hee.
This ‘horror show’ thread has probably generated the most posts of all the ‘Horror Shows’, even a few from Mr. B.
We get it already, they’re ugly buildings, actually very ugly, but why the uproar over this one? Is it too close to home; too close to the ‘brownstones’ and not in the outskirt fringe neighborhoods of Brooklyn where this ‘style’ is so common?
Let’s move on already….next.