Development Watch: 145-159 Classon Avenue
While we’d love to give ourselves a pat on the back for our predictive powers, it didn’t take a crystal ball (or any great knowledge of the development market) to know that this new residential building on the corner of Classon and Park Avenues wouldn’t be much to look at. (“What are the chances that…
While we’d love to give ourselves a pat on the back for our predictive powers, it didn’t take a crystal ball (or any great knowledge of the development market) to know that this new residential building on the corner of Classon and Park Avenues wouldn’t be much to look at. (“What are the chances that this building will be even remotely attractive?” we asked back in July 2006. “Zero, we’d guess.”) Scarano’s “Gaza Chic” design on this one makes us long for a good old glass box with illegal mezzanines.
Development Watch: 159 Classon Avenue [Brownstoner] GMAP P*Shark DOB
You all need to give it up. This is Jewish housing and it is in a Jewish area. If you really live in this area you would notice that the area has either ANglos moving in or Jewish pushing down. And I am not Jewish but lived in this area for 32 years.
I am not jewish, but I don’t think we should generalize jewish housing as cheap 3:37. Like every racial group in this city, you will find people living in all social-economic conditions. But I think the housing you are refering to is this warehouse style housing that seem to popping up within jewish communities. 2:00 made some interesting points. These apartment bldgs were creating to deal with the overcrowding of immigrant european jews who follow the lubavitch sect. Former mayor Ed Koch made a committment to increase housing for this population by using both city owed property and tax incentives for developers. What made these projects work was the private capital raised from Isreali investors that shifted some of the responsibility away from the city. Most of these projects were certified section 8 buildings that subsidized rental payments to the owners. So tenants were fasttracked through the social service (welfare) agencies with lighting speed with the help of a friendly mayor. To the former mayors credit, he initiated some bold housing plans in other parts of the city including the south bronx and harlem. But, with these projects depending solely on city funds….well you know the story. But back to your question about why these bldgs. look so cheap. Its because most of them are equivalent to public housing, financed with public and private funds. It seemed to be a great partnership at first, but than the evil color of money began to darken the sky and people abused their power in city hall, and poor people of spanish decent began to lose their homes and neighborhood to backdoor deals that ultimately set the climate that lead to the Crown Heights riots and the removal of Ed Koch.
How can it possibly be for Hasidim? It’s not clad from head to toe with window security bars.
John Ife
this area is intensely hasidic as they move down from south wmsbrg into bed stuy and boarder clinton hill. go check it out. the building is actually contextual! (first time for scarano??)
Why does Jewish housing have to be so cheap?
I won’t make the obvious joke. But you know it’s true.
2;29, you don’t know your ass from your elbow.
as 1:26 said, this is an armpit.
dumbass.
2:29, this is just two blocks from a ton of other hasidim buildings on Bedford and Flushing.
Okay 2:29, you probably just arrived here from some suburban dusty town. Your geography, history and knowledge of Brooklyn is horrible.
You at 2:02
If beeing against uglines equals beeing Anti-Semite I’m in this category together with 2:00.