Development Watch: Butt-Ugly on Smith
What can you say about this Bricolage piece o’ crap going up at 478 Smith Street at the corner of 9th Street? Not much really. Given the size of the three apartments, they presumably have been designed to sell as condos but it’s hard to imagine anyone deciding to sink their nest egg into this,…
What can you say about this Bricolage piece o’ crap going up at 478 Smith Street at the corner of 9th Street? Not much really. Given the size of the three apartments, they presumably have been designed to sell as condos but it’s hard to imagine anyone deciding to sink their nest egg into this, is it not? GMAP P*Shark DOB
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I know the difference btw poor folks and junkies. Yes, I know the Red Hook bus stops there and yes, I also know there are -several- projects in RH.
I’m also quite struck by the number of junkies who seem to live at that corner…
The poor folks waiting on the corner for the bus are en route from the subway to Red Hook where, you may have noticed, there is a housing project of some size.
Steps from a Superfund site….and how convenient! There is a brisk drug trade in the early mornings
Is the hideous piece of crap on Classon between Clifton and Lafayette also a Bricolage building? That building is an eyesore.
Someone mentioned the “dicey” characters that seem to live at that corner but no one has mentioned ( or maybe someone can confirm…) Isn’t that a methadone clinic by the F station? Or is just where the junkies hang out? Because they are not thugs, or gangsters, or troublemakers. They almost always have a heroin glaze in their eyes.
Or do junkies just like to hang out on the single grittiest, ugliest corner within a 50 block radius?
Someone mentioned the “dicey” characters that seem to live at that corner but no one has mentioned ( or maybe someone can confirm…) Isn’t that a methadone clinic by the F station? Or is just where the junkies hang out? Because they are not thugs, or gangsters, or troublemakers. They almost always have a heroin glaze in their eyes.
Or do junkies just like to hang out on the single grittiest, ugliest corner within a 50 block radius?
It just occurred to me. Take a good look at that piece of crap and all the other Bricolage (Radufsky) buildings built in the last 10 years and one thing comes to mind – PRISON.
They look like Jails houses. To bad our City officials haven’t seen the signs cause that’s where Radufsky and all his Associates belong.
To all who may consider buying in and to all our government officials I have 2 words-
WAKE UP.
Can be compared to some of the monstrosities being put in and around Clinton Hill and Bedstuy in the blink of an eye. And the mother of all bricolage, Fulton ST and Classon Ave.I dont think the homeless would live there for free if offered.
Thanks Brownstoner,
An architecture firm named Bricolage… that explains it.