Development Watch: 272 19th Street
We’ll give you one guess who’s developing this four-story, six-unit building in the South Slope/Greenwood Heights. You’re right! It’s another BK Developers building, which looks a heck of a lot like many of the other buildings these folks have erected in infill pockets throughout the neighborhood. Hey, if you like this kind of thing, looks…
We’ll give you one guess who’s developing this four-story, six-unit building in the South Slope/Greenwood Heights. You’re right! It’s another BK Developers building, which looks a heck of a lot like many of the other buildings these folks have erected in infill pockets throughout the neighborhood. Hey, if you like this kind of thing, looks like it’ll be ready any minute. GMAP P*Shark DOB
Hey, on the upside it does look to be flush with the adjacent building.
“I would be less upset if they weren’t charging shitloads of money for these apartments.”
Fret not, Santa. It doesn’t look like many of these South Slope travesties are selling.
I don’t see a single fedders unit sticking out of it. Can’t these guys get anything right?
Brownstoner, and all brownstoner readers-
Do any of you have a solution to these kinds of demo/quick-rebuilds?
Or will you all be content to make snide comments on brownstoner while the architecture of brooklyn as you like it disappear?
It’s peculiar that developers and the city think that tearing down most of the south slope if just fine, but that many people on this site (who probably live in much nicer nabes) think that this area should not be torn down. Why is it? What unites our complaints? Can’t we work together to find some sort of argument to save what it is we all agree on?
New York now takes for granted (mostly) the value of brownstones. I think there is a nascent awareness in this site that the woodframe houses are also inherently valuable, as are the streetscape in these areas.
However, I don’t think anyone has yet made a compelling landmark or business argument to save them. Clearly it can be done. It’s hard to imagine, but people felt much the same way about blighted old federals and brownstones not so long ago.
What can we do?
They splurged by not putting in feders.
Yuck. Poor South Slope…
By the looks of it I’m guessing the whole place can concertina away into nothing. Which is handy.
FUGLY
I would be less upset if they weren’t charging shitloads of money for these apartments.