Horror Show Friday: Mutant Facade Repair
We were biking through Wallabout earlier this week and were struck by the rather odd design choice at 33 Vanderbilt Avenue. For some reason, someone decided to put a layer of screamingly new brick on the lower half of the facade. What possible reason—other than pure bad taste—could account for this decision? Is it cheaper…
We were biking through Wallabout earlier this week and were struck by the rather odd design choice at 33 Vanderbilt Avenue. For some reason, someone decided to put a layer of screamingly new brick on the lower half of the facade. What possible reason—other than pure bad taste—could account for this decision? Is it cheaper than repairing the existing facade? GMAP
Juicy!
Hey all,
I’ve been enjoying this pissfest. I especially like the fact that some day “this war is gonna end.” The war in the comments section has raged for far too long! Give peace a chance.
Anyway, I live a block away from this house (and have for about a decade) and it has been in this half-covered state for about two years now. The word on the street was that the owner was trying to pretty the place up to sell it, but ran out of money during the renovation. And so the contractors left the job half-finished. And for those who were interested, to my (untrained) eye, the facade looked perfectly undamaged before the brickface was installed.
Resume your arguing!
Ummm…..we do realize that the owner isn’t done right? hard to tell if i like the brick or not….
What I DON’T like about it is that the new brick projects 4″ from the streetline: which is a very odd amount to project…
One thing I agree with the above posters about: doesn’t F%^%ing matter what I think.
A blog, catty? What is the world coming to?
dittoburg,
This Brownstoner feature is simply tacky. You can slice it and dice it and spin it any way you want. Would you want someone posting a pictue of your house and poking fun at it? Questioning your taste? Maybe the owner likes the look. Who knows? Quite frankly I like every other aspect of this site and I think brownstoner does a lot for Brooklyn.
However, this is catty.
And this house not even being in a historic district makes it even worse.
Brownstoner has the right to say and do anything it wants but just because you can doesn’t mean you should.
What, it’s not libel to say something is ugly. That is a matter of opinion.
“how about calling the home owner and finding out what the deal is before trashing someones home on your website – just b/c this is a “blog” doesnt mean you cant do even a little bit of reporting before you attack someone….”
The person isn’t the house, despite what some people on this blog apparently think.
Try this: “Bob – That hat you are wearing is ugly”.
Now are we calling Bob ugly or the hat?
I haven’t seen this in person, but just had a theory I thought I’d share —
I was in a brick store a while ago, and saw a display for a stucco system that required the stucco to be applied to a proprietary brick. The idea is that the facade looks like stone, but the system supposedly had some advantages over applying stucco over ordinary brick (I don’t remember the details).
The proprietary under-bricks were seriously fugly.
So maybe, if they’re still working on this place, they’re looking to create the look of a limestone facade on their brick house? Maybe their contractor doesn’t know how to do real stucco work.
Like I said, I don’t actually know what these people are doing. Just a thought.
Aw shit! Now I’m bummed out!
Wayman Tisdale, a three-time All-American at Oklahoma, who played 12 seasons in the NBA, died after a two-year battle with cancer. He was 44.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=4168852
Also he was Pianist and a great musician.
http://www.amazon.com/Wayman-Tisdale/e/B000AQ2IGI
Most athletes who moved into the recording business during the ’90s found rap to be their forté, but Wayman Tisdale shifted the field to contemporary jazz with his 1995 debut album Power Forward, recorded for the Motown subsidiary MoJazz. A 1984 Olympic Gold medalist in basketball, All-American at the University of Oklahoma, and member of the Phoenix Suns, Tisdale plays bass in his Fifth Quarter Band. He signed with MoJazz in 1995, releasing Power Forward later that year. By 1996, his second album In the Zone had appeared; Decisions followed two years later; Face to Face was issued.
RIP Wayman..
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Someday this war is gonna end…