Development Watch: 165 Havemeyer Street
Not mincing words, blogger Brooklyn 11211 calls this nine-unit new building at 165 Havemeyer Street in Williamsburg “soul-deadeningly ugly’ and we’d have to agree. While at least this POS is symmetrical, those small windows and the vast expanse of bricks between the ground floor and second floor make this worthy of enmity from anyone with…
Not mincing words, blogger Brooklyn 11211 calls this nine-unit new building at 165 Havemeyer Street in Williamsburg “soul-deadeningly ugly’ and we’d have to agree. While at least this POS is symmetrical, those small windows and the vast expanse of bricks between the ground floor and second floor make this worthy of enmity from anyone with an aesthetically-inclined bone in his or her body.
Soul-Deadeningly Ugly on Havemeyer [Brooklyn 11211] GMAP P*Shark DOB
I know the big area of brick under the 1st floor of apts looks silly…but I assume that is blank now because signage for commercial on street level will be there.
(as can see it is same horizontal line as signage on building on the left). Won’t appear as foolish then.
My cats, now deceased, were born in that building. It was a fruit stand, single-story building. Not the nicest produce ever, but the only one in the immediate neighborhood. It closed several years ago and was then vacant, before they pretty much tore it down in the dead of night (well, almost) and built this. What’s even sadder is that Havemeyer has lost its fish store, meat store, hardware store, portrait studio (well, he retired I think), all in the last year or so.
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The buildings on Bedford Avenue aren’t pieces of crap like this one either.
ha. but the same cannot be said about the people tho
*rob*
You’re right dh. Bedford has some nice architecture.
I don’t see how this is necessarily better than an empty lot if people don’t move in and it sits vacant.
“5th Avenue was seedy. The buildings aren’t pieces of crap like this one. There’s a difference.”
This was an empty lot.
Surprisingly most of the major avenues in Williamsburg aren’t filled with buildings like this. The buildings on Bedford Avenue aren’t pieces of crap like this one either.
I call them “Romeo and Juliet balconies” since about the only thing you can do is stand on them and yell down to someone. Or, you can throw yourself off of them when you realize you paid a lot of money for your own pile of crap. Seriously, a balcony ought to be wide enough for a potted plant.
Here’s the problem with these particular types of developments. They are usually-though not always-poorly designed and constructed. As such, serious buyers with money will chose to spend their $$s on places that are of higher quality and/or more astheticaly pleasing. So, these would make the most sense for renters living in older, poorly maintained building that are looking for newer construction in and around the communities they have always lived in. But the conversions from condos/co-ops to rentals means that the developers aren’t able to get the returns they forcasted prior to the bubble bursting and they might need to be in the deal for many more years than originally projected.
So buildings sit empty while renters continue to have problems finding places and developers wait for the returns promised at the beginning of the Naughts. Everyone loses.
Nope, it sucks.
And not in a good way.
11217…5th avenue in Park Slope?
Nope never been. I don’t know where Park Slope is. Is it nice?
5th Avenue was seedy. The buildings aren’t pieces of crap like this one. There’s a difference.
Have you been to 5th Avenue?