Thursday Blogwrap
Hook, Line, and Hipster [BB] Myrtle Ave Wants Your Feedback! [ClintonHB] Sugar Heads for the Dead [BVIB] Get Your Pets Blessed Sunday [BHB] Brooklyn, Be Proud, Be Green! [PMFA] Old building in Gowanus. Photo by jackie weisberg from the Brownstoner Flickr Pool.
Hook, Line, and Hipster [BB]
Myrtle Ave Wants Your Feedback! [ClintonHB]
Sugar Heads for the Dead [BVIB]
Get Your Pets Blessed Sunday [BHB]
Brooklyn, Be Proud, Be Green! [PMFA]
Old building in Gowanus. Photo by jackie weisberg from the Brownstoner Flickr Pool.
Sorry… It’s not the gatehouse but the Brooklyn Improvement Company (the irony), and it was built by Litchfield just down his then driveway (hence 3rd street is wider than all of the other streets in park slope).
See: http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/oldstone/3rdstreet.html and http://www.callalillie.com/archives/2004/06/pippin_on_third.html
This was a limestone building before landmarking – I think it was landmarked with the awful phony brick stucco on the outside. I used to ride a bus past this daily in the 70’s and at some point it got “rehabbed” with the crappy red and white finish it has now (and was probably landmarked with).
I love that house. Wish it would get fixed up.
I think Tyler Durten lives there making his soaps.
not, sj. Others are correct, And it is landmarked.
ninethreesix is correct, but CG’d, I don’t think the building is part of the Whole Foods site. It’s an individual city landmark and it’s really going to hell. I saw a DOB inspector checking it out last month and wondered whether the city is getting ready to charge the owner with demolition by neglect.
This is the gatehouse at the beginning of the driveway (now 3rd street) for the Litchfield Mansion in Prospect Park.
Yep, that’s the old building at 3rd and 3rd in gowanus. Unfortunately, it now has these big ugly ads for a demolition company plastered on it. It’s a pretty cool spot though.
Ah, Kensingtonian, you’ve arisen from the dead. Good to see you.
Jeff, Jonathan and staff,
Can you look into and report on what’s going on with the corner store at Cumberland and Lafayette? They’ve been closed and now it appears work is going on there (looks like demolition and a dumpster was dropped off).
Because it has that deep sidewalk, I’ve always thought it would make GREAT outdoor seating for a cafe/bistro. If St*rb*cks or a Quotidian Pain ends up opening there I think I may pass out! (…from annoyance)
If not a restaurant, I’d LOVE a good green grocer! That gets my vote!!! Apparently, the fruit/vegetable stores can make a lot of money.
The neighborhood could use a few other types of businesses. I think this website has hosted such conversations in the past.
Whatever they open, I hope it’s exciting!!! If they’re simply closed to remodel the store (which it needed), it will be a bit of a let-down.
The Nigerian Restaurant on the opposite corner appears is near to opening!