360 Smith Tops Out
The once-controversial (is it still?) 70-foot-high development at 360 Smith Street in Carroll Gardens has topped out. Does it look every bit as hulking and out-of-context as everyone once feared? The blog Pardon Me For Asking recently had this to say about how the project was turning out: “The building has not only changed the…
The once-controversial (is it still?) 70-foot-high development at 360 Smith Street in Carroll Gardens has topped out. Does it look every bit as hulking and out-of-context as everyone once feared? The blog Pardon Me For Asking recently had this to say about how the project was turning out: “The building has not only changed the skyline of Carroll Gardens, it has dwarfed neighborhood brownstones and blocked the sun of many residents along First and Second Place.”
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Won’t the new Carroll Gardens zoning laws prohibit similar hulks from being erected?
Didn’t this building just squeeze by the new zoning laws, in the nick of time?
Out of context? Well, what is the context? If your answer is 19th-century rowhouses, then the building is out of context.
I think the context is an intersection that is quite spacious, due to the east-west streets not aligning and no building to the south because of the train tracks, all of it directly above a subway station. In that context, I think the new building has plenty of elbow room. I say construct another building of similar size, with lots of ground floor retail, on the former gas station site across the street.
If the city isn’t going to increase density at nodes like this, where should it? (Conservative answer: any place but my neighborhood.)
I live on Second Place between Court and Smith. The morning light in my garden is very minimally impacted by this building. The sun is indeed high enough in the sky for the vast majority of the day that it’s not an issue. I think this building only affects the sunlight for Frank’s Grocery and Deli on Smith Street.
Though, more for those on First Place, since the building will block part of the southern sky for them. Not blocking so much for the people across the street on 2nd, cause they’re facing north already.
“Sorry but looking at this building, the blocking the sun comment is absurd. The sun is high in the sky for the majority of the day, not hovering around the ground. It might block a few minutes of sunset for literally a handful of people. Get the hell over it.”
Have to disagree with this. The sun, even in the summer months, is still a good part in the southern part of the sky at this latitude. This building will block light and not only for a few minutes a day.
I am not “against” development, but if this place were suddenly blocking my light, which is pretty much the number one thing I look for in place to live, I would be beside myself.
what is ugly is across the street from this on smith. Why not try to get rid of that eyesore.
Tear down the St. George Hotel. It’s blocking the view of the sun from the brownstones on Cranberry Street.
Plus it’s hulking.
P.S. If you’re going to whine about this development at every stage of the game, then buy a house in a landmarked district. Otherwise, shut your trap.
Out of Context? Only for the time being. A couple hundred more of these and it will be the context!
Out of context? Who gives an aborted rat fetus? Pre-war apartment buildings were out of context with brownstones were out of context with farmhouses and mills were out of context with leantwos and shanties were out of context with marshlands and swamps!