Time Puts Its Stamp on South 4th Street
When we first moved to Brooklyn in 2003, we lived in the upper duplex of the yellow house on the far left of the top photo. We stayed there for two years; the second year was when we were doing the renovations on our newly purchased house in Clinton Hill. When we lived on the…
When we first moved to Brooklyn in 2003, we lived in the upper duplex of the yellow house on the far left of the top photo. We stayed there for two years; the second year was when we were doing the renovations on our newly purchased house in Clinton Hill. When we lived on the block, neither the heinous new building in the top photo or the super-modern building in the second photo existed. We walked down the street a couple of weeks ago for the first time and struck by both of them. While we hope there’s some utilitarian reason for the tiny windows in the latter, we find it interesting; the former has no business ever having been built. Anyone like the modern one?
99 South 4th Street: GMAP DOB
107 South 4th Street: GMAP DOB
cmu, MM- I’ll meet you over there too. Loved the show- felt cheated by the finale.
Well, they’re parking their car there, which sort of destroys the “open studio” concept.
I see what you’re saying, idisagree, but that doesn’t make it look less like a garage and the building less like a bunker.
sorry, i meant maybe the artist needs to sleep during the day.
eastriver’s link says the bottom floor isn’t just a garage but also an artist’s studio.
i also don’t get the very minimal windows on the front, but who knows? maybe the owner is an artist who works at night and wanted a dark, quiet space to sleep at night. also, a quick look at google maps suggests that across the street is a not-too-beautiful garage and a boring industrial (?) building whereas behind the house is a playground and a lot of open space. i could see wanting to emphasize the back view over the front. regardless of the cost of windows, if you’re going to have one curtain of glass, i could see efficiency (and interior design) reasons for needing a basically solid surface on the other side.
Rob, brownstones were thought of as passe, which is different than ugly. When they were built, people thought they were gorgeous and they were widely admired. And even in the darklest days of the 1950’s and 60’s brownstones had admirers in many neighborhoods.
cmu, going there now….
but they would also need that creepy cylon sound effect as well.
I liked the ending – after wasting (i mean investing) all that time watching – its nice to finally have a show with some closure – maybe not as “artistic” or as well thought-out as the series as a whole but a real ending for a change (at least until someone decides to make a movie)
OT: wow,THREE BSG fans! Finale was Terrible! [hey what about an OT discussion?]
The Brutalist horror can have all the windows and skylights it wants, but there’s no way it could not be dark in the lower floors. What a stupid design. While I am not at all enslaved by history, there’s a reason for windows.
whoa i mean brownSTONES. !
*rob*