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
Quiet, thoughtful people sure like to bitch and moan about improvements on Myrtle Ave. The buildings that were there before were so great? There is a reason those buildings are gone now while others that are just as old as they would be still stand. When they knock down the projects across the street an displace everyone who lives there and replace those buildings with new developments everyone who condemns this building at 322 Myrtle will be jumping for joy.
Brownstoner, i walk past this building almost every day on my way to work and i absolutely concur with your ambivalence.
Does anyone know what the retail space will hold?
anon 1:19, true. I’m just patronizing the poster(s) who are still stuck on the ghetto aspects of Myrtle Ave. To me they lack insight and vision. I don’t believe these developers understand what it’s like to ‘root’ for a neighborhood the same way that you’d root for your favorite team.
One of the best experiences of living in a neighborhood under transition, is the feelings evoked from witnessing the changes that occur on a weekly/monthly basis.
Sometimes it’s a cheer and a ‘hooray’ as a corner or a block improves gradually. Othertimes it’s a mourning as a favorite local hang-out closes within the wake of ‘condos’ or other signs of gentrification. But the experience can’t be beat; feeling as if you’re part of history in the making (regardless of whether or not you eventually are displaced by those changes).
This is a connection with a neighborhood that most developers can never, even in their wildest imagination, begin to comprehend.
I’m not sure why exactly I’m so perturbed by this new facade. I guess it’s because I knew what was there before. And I waited patiently, with bated breath for the day that the new and improved beauty would be unveiled.
Imagine my surprise when I saw THIS.
I mean, it’s not bad…but still.
Quiet, thoughtful people have spent generations contributing to the renaissance of these neighborhoods. Yet it’s so easy for a developer, in one felt swoop, to undo the hard work of others and do something contrary to the spirit of the movement.
BTW, this site is FORT GREENE, not Bed Sty, a half block from Ft. Greene Park!
Are we ever happy? Do you enjoy seeing your community’s identity and history destroyed? These buildings are from the 19th Century!!!!
Are you people ever happy? Whine, whine, whine.
This isn’t really true anymore:
“Granted, there’s nothing but bodegas and 99 cents stores for miles”
normally i think everyone is corny on this site but really that building in Bed Stuy is RIDICULOUS. It reminds me of Dublin, where i used to live, They had no building codes and ruined dozens of historic areas. All the appartments there are just sheetrock sans insulation. every conversation can be heard throughout every room/appt/hallway etc. All these buildings are approaching 7-10 years old and are completely falling apart, leaking and just plain tiny. Not to mention about as lovely in appearance as the Bed Stuy one.
this is so ugly. Ahhh!!! Are we in Israel? Is the Mediterranean on the other side of Myrtle?
I thank the developer for forever destroying the context of this historic Brooklyn block!