CG Atrocity: There Goes the Neighborhood
Carroll Gardens better get off its ass and create some historic districts pronto. Here’s the poster child for the cause: The addition to this house at 3rd Place and Clinton Street, made all the worse by its corner location, has to be one of the greatest bastardizations of a beautiful old brownstone we’ve ever seen….
Carroll Gardens better get off its ass and create some historic districts pronto. Here’s the poster child for the cause: The addition to this house at 3rd Place and Clinton Street, made all the worse by its corner location, has to be one of the greatest bastardizations of a beautiful old brownstone we’ve ever seen. May their condos languish on the market indefinitely. Do you think it would be possible to organize a buying strike against this place? Picket the open houses? GMAP P*Shark
Here’s the rendering of the finished product:
Come on. Extensions on existing homes are one thing, but to pile crap on *top* of the really pretty pitched roof? Oy.
It looks like a Williamsburg monster is trying to shove a brownstone down its gullet.
a couple of months ago i looked at the house next door, and lost interest when i realized how totally eclipsed the back was going to be by the pod on top of the corner house. on that day, the construction crew was loading cinderblocks and giving hate stares to anybody who had the gall to look at what they were doing. maybe they were just having a bad day, but the level of stress seemed higher than normal. do construction workers feel guilt about acts of architectural vandalism?
Contextual architecture is the worst, most offensive kind of design there is. This tact (and the community groups that stand behind it) is why NYC is so far behind other international cities in outstanding architecture. I have never seen faux-old cut the mustard. It doesn’t work and this is an example of good design that does!
Anyway, kudos to Brownstoner for being a provocateur this morning – I bet he secretly likes it but just wanted to get us going.
Well, if people are serious about trying to extend the landmark district, or to get DCP to adjust the zoning, start getting organized and complain loudly to the local electeds -that’s the best way to get the City’s attention. That’s how neighborhoods all over the city have gotten “contextual rezonings,” including, in some neighborhoods. Has CG had any “town hall meetings” with the Mayor?
naomi,
Whose side are you on?! Stop trying to temper our hysteria! We need more hysteria! Hysteria is the sign of fidelity to the cause! Perspective is the sign of weakness and ideological impurity!
JUDAS!!!!
I like the rendering on property shark. brownstoner, can you post this pic as well so everyone knows what the finished product will look like? (45 3rd Pl as someone else mentioned)
I live on one of those place blocks, and unfortunately, there are more than a few architecturally out of context buildings on many streets. I was shocked that buyers would spend well over a million dollars for the new condos at 11 2nd Place, but they apparently sold. But I think people are buying in Carroll Gardens for more reasons than beautiful landmarked architecture. It’s still full of quiet, tree-lined streets with a good public elementary school (Carroll Gardens families, I’d guess, choose public over private much more than families in the Heights or Cobble Hill). And though the neighborhood still has the reputation of being unfriendly to minorities, PS 58, according to insideschools.org is only 37% white and most residents are extremely happy to send their kids there.
By the way, we checked out the FAR on our building and were told we maxed it out with our original 20×45 4-story building (on a 20 x 133 lot). We had thought about building a small one story extension with a deck from the parlor floor on top, but couldn’t. So I’m guessing lots of place block houses don’t have much room to build up. I suspect corner lots have more FAR, or perhaps blocks other than place blocks do.
As I said above, “my point was that it will be way less of an outrage-inducing eyesore once it is finished.” I was just trying to temper some of the hysteria in these comments…
amen