322 Myrtle Ave: So Close and Yet So Far
This new building on Myrtle between Washington Park and Carlton is better than a lot of the smaller buildings that have been built in recent years. However, one can’t help but look at this and ask why in the world they wouldn’t have used a redder brick and tried to match the cornice to the…
This new building on Myrtle between Washington Park and Carlton is better than a lot of the smaller buildings that have been built in recent years. However, one can’t help but look at this and ask why in the world they wouldn’t have used a redder brick and tried to match the cornice to the adjacent buildings. That railing on the roof looks ridiculous. We’re curious to know that the retail tenant will be for this place. GMAP P*Shark DOB
Anonymous at May 15, 2007 12:39 PM, I don’t remember any “elegant brownstones” that were in that location. I do remember some really rundown storefronts though and while I think the developer could have done something a little nicer, all in all, it’s not bad. Certainly better than what was there before.
its me, 5:11 again. just 20min ago there was another shooting right there, 10 police cars etc..you get the picture. who with 5k to spend wants to live at such a corner? no,9:28, i am not going into real estate, i have a degree.
Oh anon 5:11 so $2500 for a block where they kill people as opposed to east of Adelphi. Are you a complete excuse for a person? Do you perhaps mean that for a better block on myrtle one should pay $3500? Because they get rubbed out below Adelphi on eshould only pay $2500> DOn’t go into real estate please.
I don’t want to sound insensitive but this building is pretty good for myrtle avenue. Better than some of the things going up in more upscale (or midscale) locales. The design is, of course, awful, but it makes a good valiant try, The curved headed windows are nice, the balustrade could be nice if it had a cornice or beltcourse under it to anchor it visually. The windows would look better if they fit more naturally in their masonry openings. The theory of proportion is the lost language of architecture. Even architects are clueless about the careful rules of proportion and visual congruencies that guided both the fancy architect and the modest builder of long ago.
Anon 2:15, thanks for your quiet, thoughtful explanation to the more clueless readers of this blog about what it means to love a neighborhood and work to make it nice. Anon 3:57, you are a clueless jackass. Yes, there is a reason the original buildings that were on this site are gone. Their owners didn’t give a shit and neglected their property. Then they sold it to charlatans. It’s nothing for you, or anybody else, to celebrate. Can’t we all agree that it would be nice to live in a neighborhood full of cool, well-maintained, beautiful buildings? And yes, I will be jumping for joy in the unlikely event the city ever tears down the warehouses of poverty known as the projects and spreads low-income folks throughout communities instead of stacking them up like cordwood. Doesn’t work–obviously.
It’s likely that the building dept required a railing on the roof. I know it looks stupid, but I had that happen to me on a similar project.
3-5k is too much for this location. i live there, they killed a guy last september just across the street and one in february this year(drug related). 2 bodegas in same block are hang outs for druggies from projects across the street. this is a very bad corner. 2500$ max. myrtle gets better after adelphi.
Listen to what is being said: the building isn’t that bad.
Is this what architecture has become in NYC? A good building is one deemed not to be an eyesore?
The praise of mediocrity has to stop.
I wouldn’t call this an improvement (: >