Charming Paint Peeler, RIP
What a gigantic bummer. A reader just sent us this shot of 1518 10th Avenue in Windsor Terrace where some philistine has torn down the charming, albeit worse-for-the-wear, woodframe house we wrote about last spring. (The tax photo at right shows the house in better days.) In its place, neighbors can look forward to a…
What a gigantic bummer. A reader just sent us this shot of 1518 10th Avenue in Windsor Terrace where some philistine has torn down the charming, albeit worse-for-the-wear, woodframe house we wrote about last spring. (The tax photo at right shows the house in better days.) In its place, neighbors can look forward to a two-family, 4,000-square-foot house. What are the chances that this won’t be blindingly ugly?
Paint-Peeling Charm in Windsor Terrace [Brownstoner] GMAP P*Shark DOB
“community boards allow anything to be built”
For the record, CB’s have no power over “what gets built” unless it comes before a Board’s land use committee for a BSA or ULURP application. And still then it has nothing to do with the aesthetics, so to speak.
Wish they could, but then that is overstepping constitutional boundaries.
that is indeed true sucker lucker, i can’t believe this guy quit his job for this, anyway:
WHAT WOULD ALL YOU KNOW IT ALL TYPES SAY IF IT WAS TADAO ANDO OR ZAHA HADID DOING THE ARCHITECTURE? YEAH THEN YOU SHOULD YOUR MOUTHS?????
as soon as an architect puts his/her name on a project and files it with the DOB/AG office, they are legally liable, regardless of the selfless nature of the endeavor.
The alternate universe I live in is called Building Boom Brooklyn and its being ruined by “developers” putting up hideous, out of context, soul sucking crap at every turn. The reasons they do it is because they don’t give a shit, don’t have any sense of aesthetics or basically just don’t know any better.
Zoning’s not going to stop it. The community boards allow anything to be built. Landmarking takes too long, and will only work in precious few neighborhoods – so what’s left? Education, incentives and making it easy and profitable to put up nicer neighborhood enhancing buildings.
Now I know there is a pro-Fedders contingent on this site, but assuming you’re not in that group what’s your suggestion to try and stop this?
And in case you haven’t noticed, professionals do pro bono work all the time. If you did it right I’m sure you could leverage it and get tons of free publicity that would probably pay you more then you’d make on a similar for profit project.
Or just be smart alecks. That’s easier and more fun.
“By the way there *are* community lawyers and tax preparers.”
Yeah, I don’t think they work for developers.
“It’s called Open Source software and/or freeware. Why can’t something similar be done with urban architecture?”
You’ve got it! Free downloadable architecture.
um, ok.
“I’ve got some taxes to be filed- C’mom community tax preparers! I’ve also got a small legal matter- C’mon community lawyers!”
I need some software that’s not sky-high in price – C’mon community programmers! Oh wait, that exists. It’s called Open Source software and/or freeware. Why can’t something similar be done with urban architecture?
By the way there *are* community lawyers and tax preparers.
Awwwww. I used to live around the block from this house. An old man lived there, and he seemed really crochety and ornery, and he would sit inside the garage with the door open. I think he was a vet, from the baseball cap he would wear. I always wondered about him. Hope the house didn’t get sold from underneath him or anything shady like that, he probably just moved on to the great battleship in the sky.
“You know, the ones that are available FOR FREE to any “developer” who agrees to use the materials.
C’mon “community of architects”, if you draw them, I’ll help market them… at DOB, at Home Depot, wherever these developers hang out.”
I’ve got some taxes to be filed- C’mom community tax preparers! I’ve also got a small legal matter- C’mon community lawyers! Not to mention my empty fridge- C’mon community grocers!
Thanks SeamusMacD. Further proof that some brownstoners live in a different universe.