119 Court Street: Just About There
Last March we took a look at the slow-moving development at the corner of Court and State. A reader chimed in with some background at the time: A guy named Danny who used to run a Chinese restaurant on the site woke up one day and realized he could make a lot more dough building…
Last March we took a look at the slow-moving development at the corner of Court and State. A reader chimed in with some background at the time: A guy named Danny who used to run a Chinese restaurant on the site woke up one day and realized he could make a lot more dough building condos than slinging chow mein. He had a tough time putting together the financing which, our commenter guessed, explained the project’s fits and starts. We went by on Saturday, though, and it looks like the building is just about finished. Anyone know anything about price or timing? Who’s got the listing?
Development Watch: 117-119 Court Street [Brownstoner] GMAP
A friend lives almost next door to this, on the same block and this block is LOUD. Between the crowds of people coming in and out of the movie theater, the ‘blood bus’ that parks outside with the engine and AC running all day, exchanging blood donations for movie tix, and the garbage trucks that come usually between 1 and 3 am and sometimes take up to an hour to load up all the trash from the combo of movie theater and B&N, it’s never quite on this block. It is nice that the windows open, but especially on the lower floors, you’d probably never want them open.
Convenient ‘hood though. Close to most subways, Brooklyn Heights and stuff on Court or Smith.
I just noticed the bottom-panes on those big windows do open. That’s really nice. A big drawback on large windows most of the time, is that they can’t be opened and the building is hermetically sealed. This nice features makes this building NOT like an office building.
It’s the fashionable things, those big “living in a glass house” windows. The Meier buildings in Manhattan are like that; even cars going by the on expressway can see right inside. But in those Meier buildings there are a white, flat, screen style shades residents can draw down that let in some light but obscures the view for passersby. The window covering question might be the drawback for this building; if there isn’t a uniform style of shade installed on the windows there is going to be a chaotic cacophony of colors and texture and types of window fixtures and then the uniform look of the exterior we are admiring now, won’t be evident anymore. However it’s a drag for people who live in a building to have restrictions on what kind of window fixtures they can use. Limits their interior decor, creatively. The upside for the exterior is the downside for the interiors, in those kinds of buildings. Which we don’t know is the case here.
I think that they are floorthroughs. Family sized apts.
It’s not bad looking, but you do feel a little exposed by the large, clear windows. The combo movie theater, Starbucks, Barnes&Noble is directly across the street with all the gawkers looking out their large windows and so is the Court House Apartments on their other side.
The windows should have been the dark tinted kind, or something with a little reflective property.
defenestration
1620, “the action of throwing out of a window,” from L. fenestra “window.” A word invented for one incident: the “Defenestration of Prague,” May 21, 1618, when two Catholic deputies to the Bohemian national assembly and a secretary were tossed out the window (into a moat) of the castle of Hradshin by Protestant radicals. It marked the start of the Thirty Years War. Some linguists link fenestra with Gk. verb phainein “to show;” others see in it an Etruscan borrowing, based on the suffix -(s)tra, as in L. loan-words aplustre “the carved stern of a ship with its ornaments,” genista “the plant broom,” lanista “trainer of gladiators.”
i like them! one of the first new constructions i’ve looked at and immediately had a sense of liking about it.
kinda looks like an ofc bldg, but i really like them.
I agree. It’s a nice looking building. Good proportions, harmonious. Nice brick. I like a window that ends at a mullion (never knew what it was called before though!)
fenestration?
Anyways, I think the penthouse looks nice. I’ve been eyeing this building on my way to and from work for some time. It’ll be interesting to see how the sales go. With this and 110 Livingston, the few square blocks around Court between Joralemon and Atlantic are going to get an influx of residents really soon.