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:
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I think they call these juliet balconies in the real estate lexicon. So, if you have a lot of suitors, or very long hair, you might find it extremely useful.
But of course, balcony provides “outside space”.
I like many modernist buildings, but this is ugggggly!
Holy crap batman. I am completely baffled by the balcony action on all the new construction around town. Please does anyone live in one of these buildings and could they explain to me what they use the balcony for???
WOW! That might be the ugliest thing I have ever seen done to a house – definitly with you on this one B-Stoner
I think we need to reserve judgement until this is complete. Cinderblocks look ugly but they are what are under just about all buildings today, ugly or not. This could turn out to look really nice.
This is why IT DOES MATTER to buy in a landmarked area and why people who say it’s elitist to be picky about neighborhood borders are wrong. Actual Carroll Gardens, as dlineated by the LPC, is a very small area. would you pay 50 to 100 bucks a square foot more not to have to look at this every day on your block. A lot of people seem willing to.
I think the condo extension would look pretty cool– IF it weren’t glommed onto an existing building of an entirely different style.
The sad thing is there are so few of those corner house with a pitched roof and bay window.