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:
Can you speLl U*G*L*Y?????
I’m a modernist.
This is the ugliest picture I have ever seen on this website, and stucco’ing it isn’t going to help the ackward proportions or max-zoning-envelope formmaking. They should have at least gone ahead and pulled the old eaves off, God help them.
Additions benefit when they are “additions” — not co-planar globbings-on. No subtlety, no scale, no grace, no thanks.
[didn’t bother to view the rendering; these tend to be fictions designed to get construction funding and the like]
–an architect in Brooklyn
I agree with some posters here, and I’ve heard b’stoner talk about this in the past; it is interesting and important to have some mixed architecture, but I think we’ve gotten to the point where, when you see modern architecture, you really want it to be good and I just don’t think that ANYTHING stuccoed can be good.
my $0.02
Well, I bet the light in those back rooms is pretty spectacular….
My two cents. I know that my nabe of Greenpoint is not too historically districted. And because of this, we are paying a price of developer madness. How many pictures of ugly outlandish, out of context buildings are being raised up out of the urge to make quick mega bucks.
The streets that are NOT historic districts have incredible finds…The outside of these mostly frame houses are sided, but the interiors feature lots of historic goodies that MANY folks retain, restore and renovate in the Old House style.
But Greenpoint doesn’t have the political muscle at all to stop the overbuilding or to have a say in the esthetic features.
It is sad, you know. You all in the nabes that are majority landmarked are lucky.
Excellent attempt of the old meeting the new. I can’t wait for the finish piece to see the contrast of the two.
I thought we didn’t live in Switzerland or in a Communist country. If it isn’t that fact that you guys attempt to impede on an expression (Beauty is in the eye of the beholder), your ACORN group decides to enter the new developments in DUMBO.
I knew that when the peep shows on 42nd street were being shut down it was the beginning of Communism (Relatively the same as the Cabarets shutting down nearly 100 years ago in Russia)
Brownstoner is loving this – keep it up
maybe one or two more *pretty* pitched rooves would make things better then… hell, let’s make CG a pitched roof, brownstone themepark! yay!
Oh. My. Gawd.