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
The work appears to be “in progress” …. even the railings on the front stoop are missing, so the stoop must have been rebuilt as well.
I wouldn’t call out the facade critics so quickly… I seem to remember another article where some poor soul was lambasted for painting his facade white, or “some such” when in fact that wasn’t what was going on at all.
I think the top half should be that faux fieldstone look in varying shades of pink and beige. Seriously- I hate when people destroy the beauty of a facade with this faux garbage. It’s all over Brooklyn- I call it the attack of the Mutant Facade Salesmen but it isn’t funny at all.
I’m with the What on this one.
Brownstoner should just start a new daily blog for ‘Ugly houses we don’t like’. This is what this thread is all about.
Now all it needs is a nice awning….watch the video commercial clip….
http://www.fiberama.com/bay.htm
i like the effect of the faux crennelations. One’s very own castle in Brooklyn.
I find this funny! Brownstoner can take a picture of someone’s house, post it on his Blog and make fun of it?????? I’m I missing something??? The sad thing is he gets away with crap and no one calls him out on it!
The What
Someday this war is gonna end…
“What possible reason—other than pure bad taste—could account for this decision?”
Peak comp purchase. HELOC’s frozen.
Not a load bearing wall. Joists run parallel.
***Bid half off peak comps***
How does that prevent the collapse of the facade? Maybe you could say that if it went all the way up, but if the facade is damaged on the ground, or parlor floor, more brick halfway up is not a viable answer to the problem, it would crumble with the facade, there’s nothing but morter holding it up. Halfway. Are they done?
I do give them points for working with the lintels and window trim. Most people would have just taken them all down.
I don’t see what the location has to do with supposed lack of wealth. Doing a decent job of brickwork ain’t cheap either. And the Navy Yard vicinity isn’t like being on the corner of hell and toxic dump.
How does this facade prevent a load bearing wall from collapsing? And only 1/2 way up? I don’t think so. I’m with ironballs on this one.