Thursday Links
Fairway Building, Red Hook. Photo by Frank Lynch. Brooklyn Swimmers Rejoice in a Pool With a View [NY Times] Mayor to Work in Brooklyn During City Hall Renovation [NY Times] Coney Island Has New Top Dog [NY Post] Leave lot alone, W’burg merchants say [NY Daily News] Another Condo Planned for Brooklyn’s Fourth Avenue [The…
Fairway Building, Red Hook. Photo by Frank Lynch.
Brooklyn Swimmers Rejoice in a Pool With a View [NY Times]
Mayor to Work in Brooklyn During City Hall Renovation [NY Times]
Coney Island Has New Top Dog [NY Post]
Leave lot alone, W’burg merchants say [NY Daily News]
Another Condo Planned for Brooklyn’s Fourth Avenue [The Real Deal]
Sick Owner of 105 Greene Defrauded by Con Man [ABC News]
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“There’s a lot of money to be made” on Fourth Avenue, says Pearl”
Pearls before swine? Or the other way around?
Would love to know what the housing looked like inside before it was all closed up earlier in the year.
From the front, they look as if they could have been rehabbed. Not here in the “wild west” of 4th Ave development.
“Demolition on these 4th Ave. buildings has not even begun, yet people are already starting to whine about what could be built there.”
Gee, if I can’t “complain” about Pearl operating one of the most dangerouos S.R.O.’s & now developing on 4th Ave, what would be an acceptable reason? This is more about “concern” for the area, rather than “complaining.”
Whatever goes in on 4th Avenue is going to be better than what was there.
Whoop! You been gentrified!
Brooklyn in da house!
Again, people love to complain. Demolition on these 4th Ave. buildings has not even begun, yet people are already starting to whine about what could be built there.
The story about the doctor with Alzheimer’s losing her home is absolutely heartbreaking. I hope criminal fraud charges are pressed, or at least a good lawsuit against the man who swindled her out of her house. He is not a savvy businessman, or a clever wheeler dealer. He is a thief, pure and simple.
before you jump for joy over that block being developed, consider this quote from the article, “Although Pearl intends to build in an area increasingly marked by new residential developments, the developer is perhaps best known for a notoriously decaying structure he owns in Greenpoint. Pearl’s Greenpoint Hotel on Manhattan Avenue is considered ‘one of the most dangerous S.R.O.’s in the city’ and a haven for drug deals, according to a New York Times article published last year.”
These new large developments on 4th Ave are an eyesore, and this one doesn’t give any reason that it will be any different.
word!
re: 4th Avenue condo. Great to hear block to be developed. I didn’t really understand the article. Said their is permit for interior demo. Yet also says they will build the 12 story.
If current facades can be incorporated that would be great.
Don’t know why article refers as 5 row houses. 5 walk-up tenement apt. bldgs to me.
BTW, quite awhile back a Brownstoner posting had pics of this row from recent time and years ago. Both boarded up.