It Came From 4th Ave!
Pictures can’t really do justice to the latest addition to 4th Avenue’s much-vaunted streetscape and retail scene. Cinder block-o-licious! GMAP
Pictures can’t really do justice to the latest addition to 4th Avenue’s much-vaunted streetscape and retail scene. Cinder block-o-licious! GMAP
“‘FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, MONTRESOR!'”
“Maybe someone has been walled up inside just like in the Cask of Amontillado.”
It’s nice to see SOMEOME is keeping up on Poe, the first American to make his living primarily through writing. Nice references you guys.
Tomatoes are locked and loaded.
Agreed.
Disappointing? Perhaps a bit.
Failure? Hardly.
Hundreds of units of new housing have been provided. New restaurants and bars have opened.
Sheesh, give it some time. Considering where 4th Avenues started in this process, I think it’s come a long way.
That said, the building above is still tragic and absurd.
fsrq: I disagree that Park Slope extends to 4th Ave. I think of 4th Ave (at least in this area) as Gowanus, or at best an unnamed border area (sort of like Flatbush, which isn’t PS and isn’t PH – it’s just Flatbush).
Of course many realtors have a map on their wall that shows Park Slope extending to twenty something street and 3rd Ave, but that doesn’t make it so.
“I am starting to seriously consider moving back to Manhattan. Value is appearing on Manhattan more quickly than in Park Slope. As I often say, I try to let the market do my work for me. If prices drop to a level I am comfortable with in Manhattan before they do in Park Slope, back across the river I go.”
My feelings exactly.
(And, yes, I’ll stop posting here if I move across the river unless/until I’m actively considering moving back — which I will when it becomes time to buy in 2011 or whenever.)
My lease is up in the fall. If I were moving right now, I would say I could get more for my rental money in Manhattan than Brooklyn (assuming a 1 year lease with the “1 month free” promotions that so many Manhattan buildings are giving).
I’ll see what the market is like when my lease is up (and whether or not I can find daycare in Manhattan).
retail under buildings is gross cuz it attracts vermin like cockroaches and rats. maybe some condo owners dont like that? and there are already 5000 lame coffee shops in the area with internet access for out of work writers to sit at all day and type out their next greatest american novel.
*rob*
slick – I wouldnt agree – a disappointment yes, but a failure??? Thousands of residents are moving to a once desolate and horrible street. Retail will inevitably follow (and then future buildings will include it).
Will it take longer then hoped – yup; will the buildings all be architectural masterpieces – obviously not;
it may take too cycles but the 4th Ave rezoniong undoubtedly extends Park Slope 1 Ave further, has improved the Ave for a more pedestrian future and added housing and while protecting the already developed parts of the neighborhood from out of context buildings…a failure – I think not
‘FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, MONTRESOR!’
i think we can point to 4th ave’s rezoning as a failure at this point.
There should have been a requirement for a retail component on the ground floor. they were aiming for UES’s park ave. but UWS Broadway seems like it would have worked out a bit better.