BSA Shows Rare Cojones in Carroll Street Rebuke
It shouldn’t come as a surprise based on earlier comments, but the Board of Standards and Appeals’ final ruling against the developers of 580 Carroll Street is still noteworthy because, well, it’s a ruling against a developer from a group that historically has bent over back to accommodate developers. This case, which we’ve followed ad…
It shouldn’t come as a surprise based on earlier comments, but the Board of Standards and Appeals’ final ruling against the developers of 580 Carroll Street is still noteworthy because, well, it’s a ruling against a developer from a group that historically has bent over back to accommodate developers. This case, which we’ve followed ad nauseam as the links below indicated, involved the developer’s request to build three townhouses in the front yard of a five-story Enrique Norten-designed glass building in Park Slope. The request was based on a claim of hardship deriving from the discovery of underground concrete bunkers whose removal added unforeseen expense to the project. The BSA wasn’t buying it: “The applicant’s inability to realize a reasonable return is due to mismanagement rather than actual costs…any hardship claimed by the applicant is self-created.” Ouch.
BSA Shoots Down Controversial Slope Addition [NY Post]
No Means No for Garfield Sparta [Curbed]
City Rejects Norten’s Park Slope Project [Brooklyn Paper]
580 Carroll-BSA Journey To End Next Month [Brownstoner]
580 Carroll-BSA Saga Drags On! [Brownstoner]
BSA Smacks Down 580 Carroll Hardship Claim…For Now [Brownstoner]
580 Carroll Developers Cite Chambers of Horror [Brownstoner]
Development Watch: 580 Carroll Gets Its Glass On [Brownstoner]
BSA Postpones Decision on Carroll St Norten Again [Brownstoner]
580 Carroll Decision Postponed [Brownstoner]
Slope Rallies Against 580 Carroll, Rags on the BSA [Brownstoner]
Battle Over Carroll St. Norten Build Heats Up This Week [Brownstoner]
CB6 Doesn’t Buy Carroll Street Hardship Claim [Brownstoner]
580 Carroll Developer Trying to Supersize Norten Project [Brownstoner]
Development Watch: 580 Carroll Street [Brownstoner] GMAP
Enrique Norten-Designed Project in Park Slope Revealed [Brownstoner]
Four Developments Coming to One Stretch of Carroll [Brownstoner]
Photo by Denton Taylor
what details? please specify a detail.
I think it’s very attractive. One of the nicer new buildings I have seen in Brooklyn. No Fedders, for starters. Nice late 1950s feel. Looks like they spent some money on the details.
this is the ugliest building i have ever seen. the group of people who have created this
glass shit house need to get back to development 101. if its ugly no one will come.
this is a disgusting structure lacking any style. i would not buy, rent, lease or foreclose on
this concrete cemetery mosemleum. please cover this structure with anything that will mask its obvious inadequacy. it is a disaster. the architect should be ashamed to have his name on this fugly piece of shit. the developers should move in and cut their losses.
people there will be losses on this project. i will bet it leaks like a colander and will be so
energy inefficient that it will cost a fortune to maintain. please do not build anymore,
find a new hobby. maybe someone will buy the whole thing and demolish it.
disgusting. DISGUSTING!!!!!!!!!!!
Those cement balconies (at least that’s what the look to be made of) will bleed heat to the outside. Such dumb design.
NYC is such a case study in slap-dash. I wish some of these architects could apply what they may have learned putting up similar buildings in Germany and apply those techniques and design ideas in the USA.
… ’twas not uninterrupted brownstone. btwn 4th and 5th is very mixed in use and style.
personally, i like it but maybe i am sick.
“Except the idiots here have created a sort of meld of the Hamptons [Wood fence and setbacks] and Baghdad [Blank Walls facing the street]….”
Mid-Easthampton?
Just for the ‘record’ – I am not in favor of everything – I just dont subscribe to the view that new=bad or tall=bad – but I do subscribe to the idea that a successful urban landscape is defined by pedestrian friendly streets – and a consistent and open street wall is essential for that; this is sort of urban design 101
Except the idiots here have created a sort of meld of the Hamptons [Wood fence and setbacks] and Baghdad [Blank Walls facing the street]….
Its sickening
Wow, a development that managed to align BSA and FSRQ against it. Impressive. But I agree with FS.
dreamking — the answer is nothing that couldn’t have been detected at the outset with reasonably diligent test borings, hence the decision.
I would guess nothing exotic – I believe their was a warehouse of some sort on that site – they were probably just storage vaults.
As for the building – forget the windows (curtains can fix that) –
this is the most offensive building I have seen built in a very long time….
It destroys the street walls of 2 blocks – the back is covered with the inane wood fence (cause the apartments are literally right on the street with the same large windows…. and the front (?) has the same UGLY fencing and then is set back like hundred feet.
I’d rather live on a block of all Feeders buildings than this – the architect should be indicted.