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
big difference between a residential townhouse block (union) and this industrial location
This is going to look exactly like that dump on Union Street between 5th and 4th Ave. 3 Years ago when it started out I thought “okay, may not be bad. It is brick, clean lines, nice big openings”. Oh how wrong was I, they ended up filling in those openings with vinyl windows from Lowes, those god awful chrome railings, and balconies that look like they were made by the GC’s cousin at Winn Restaurant Supply. The foundations were CMU and they tried getting away with spraypainting them to fancy them up. Luckily the neighbors complained and they removed that feature. You wait, this is shaping up to be as bad as that.
“construction till 2012”
Wait, isn’t that the Mayan year for Armageddon? (NY Times magazine from this past weekend. Yes, I read things other than brownstoner and curbed!)
Perhaps Mr. Radusky had that in mind when designing this bunker.
Shit sandwich.
Well said 11:57
You need a lot of brick when you’re sitting on an oil spill that’s just waiting to blow. Not to mention the cancer causing fumes and the falling debris from the elevated viaduct (construction till 2012).
It doesn’t get better than this.
lets face it, this site is a ruse, dedicated to promoting CH over other BK neighborhoods in an unbalanced manner, thereby speeding up its gentrification, and rapidly increasing mr B’s property value.
Mos Def would be proud indeed
it is funny how short-sighted the negative comments tend to be… who knows, perhaps with the push to clean the gowanus and the “public space” are on smith and 5th street, the area may improve some. no one who buys in this development could afford your pristine townhouse next to prospect park or the hot FG/CH…
toxic schmoxic….in 50 years it’ll be a landmark….
AMEN 11:57.
Goes to prove my point. The only positive posts on this website are about FG/CH Houses of the Day.
Get off your high horses.