4th Ave. Buildings Have a Date With the Wrecking Ball
A row of Fourth Avenue buildings is about to bite the dust, clearing the way for a fairly massive development site. The properties, between Butler and Douglass, have been boarded up for awhile now, but the DOB just issued demolition permits for all of ’em. We got word of their coming demise via a tipster…
A row of Fourth Avenue buildings is about to bite the dust, clearing the way for a fairly massive development site. The properties, between Butler and Douglass, have been boarded up for awhile now, but the DOB just issued demolition permits for all of ’em. We got word of their coming demise via a tipster who noticed they were sporting tell-tale big boxed X’s and who opined I wonder what crappy 20 story eyesore will go up in its place. All that nice brick…all gone… Last we heard, a developer was planning to put a 12-story condo in their place. We’ll reserve judgment about the shape of things to come until we see some renderings, but like our tipster we’ve always had a soft spot for the old school tenement look of these buildings, and it’s gonna be sad to see them go. GMAP DOB
Also, scroll down any thread here and see how many registered posts there are as opposed to guests. People have voted and they don’t want to register. If Brownstoner required it, this would become a little social club for Carol Gardens et al.
I guess anyone that doesn’t agree with you is an A HOLE. I believe some one before posted a “Move to Dallas” comment. Please move to France to instead. They think they are superior, elite, and rightous as well.
How does registering a fictitious name come to mean courage and bravery? Whether you are anonymous or have a name like Action Jackson, you remain just as anonymous. Unless we all begin posting our addresses, phone numbers and legal names, we are equally faceless.
If you’re going to get angry at people who disagree with or insult you, debate the contents of their post.
And again, brownstoner has tried requiring registration in the past and the traffic here plummeted as a result.
Carol Gardens, I am assuming you are referring to me so, sure. I actually purchased a small parcel some time ago when they were more readily available, reasonably priced and it wasn’t hip yet to live in glass fish tank. I had a developer build me a small multi unit residence (moderate, what I could afford). Almost went bankrupt doing it, but in the end live in a comfortable residence. Another option I did consider at that time was purchasing exactly a building like this (4 Units or less) for renovation. I didn’t pick that option. Had I done so, it would not have been to save the historical architecture though, but rather the pure economics of it and what return I could generate. I hope that answers your question on what I have done. But I do appreciate what it took to get there, the risk I took, the money I laid out, time and sweat invested, etc. I don’t claim to be selfless, just hard working like everyone else trying to own a home. It is precisely because of what is happening that I am benefiting as are a lot of other people. Anyone who owns any real property is benefiting. I don’t consider many of those posters “evil”, just hypocrites. Judging by what an apartment goes for in a lovely turn of the century brownstone or any square box for that matter, I would say you don’t have to be a developer to be greedy. As for you who rent, sorry you are getting priced out of your neighborhood. Maybe your homeowner will not sell you out and jack you up for major rent increases. As far as my handle, what? You want to hang out a have a beer or something? Sounds unlikely, so why bother.
(Funny! This is the same block of Fourth Avenue that Berenice Abbott shot in 1936 for “Changing New York”. It was boarded up and decrepit back then, with posters covering the ground floor. Nothing changes. Did it ever get renovated after the 1930s? It must have. How long has it been fallow this time around?)
Now THAT is interesting. That could be a magazine article in and of itself!
“Why is it that real estate blogs have a higher percentage of unbelievable a**holes posting comments than any other type of blog?”
Guest 1:27PM, Because Mr. B allows “guest” posts and all the trolls don’t have the balls to register their names…even if they were fictional. Perhaps you can sign up yourself and not add to the anon clatter?
Nothing more to say on this particular 4th Ave. thread, since I spoke up last time around and got hit by the same Libertarian “build more now, it’s our right” and “supply vs. demand” shit than I could stomach.
Snooze.
Why is it that real estate blogs have a higher percentage of unbelievable a**holes posting comments than any other type of blog?
The X in a box means there’s no floor or no safe floor, a warning for firefighters. (I think.)
Hey, guest, why don’t you tell us about yourself? I suppose you are somehow improving the housing supply situation in this city? That you are completely selfless, unlike all those evil people you rail against? As I have mentioned before, I rent, so I am not particularly benefiting from low density. I just love my neighborhood. And why don’t you just pick a handle already?