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
also – I’m sorry. The new condos/existing housing stock in South Slope (teens, west of 6th) doesn’t look drastically different then your average block in Williamsburg. There – I said it.
It’s the perfect storm of shoddy construction and unrealistic pricing. When a building in Williamsburg is well made and priced correctly – they go like hotcakes (see building on Berry mentioned previously in the week)
They just don’t make them like they used to. The Gretsch Building is probably one of the coolest buildings in the whole city – but why do an expensive factory conversion when you can knock it down and build a shitbox?
But buildings like this, I’m not sure who they are fooling. This looks more like it was built for the Hasids south of the bridge then the yuppies.
I’m more concerned with the stalled construction sites that are a definite blight on the neighborhood. When it gets windy I can’t even walk westward on my block since the dust/metal fencing from the huge construction site starts blowing around.
11217: unlike some other bears here, I don’t see a quick & big drop in the good hoods. It might be drip drip for another 2 yrs so if I can save up some more $$ during that wait living in these POS bldgs, have to consider it.
ugly & crappy buildings priced as if they’re beauties = no sales vacant buildings
price it to reflect they’re crap, I predict quick sell-out
and 11217 has hijacked yet another thread to defend park slope!
*rob*
It boggles my mind, that all it takes is a cheap price and someone would then be interested in a total piece of crap.
I guess that’s why Walmart is successful.
Go America! Quantity over Quality!!
ENY,
I agree…4th Avenue isn’t gorgeous in the slightest, but those units are at least selling/renting. The places in Williamsburg are sitting empty. Walk by even McCarren Park at night, and those highrises along it are 1/4th empty and they’ve been up for years.
And comparing about 5-10 large buildings confined along one single Avenue is not the same as an entire neighborhood filled with hundreds of these dumpy, crappy and EMPTY developments.
the ugliness can all be overlooked by a big enough price cut (ie price it at or below rental cashflow and buyers will line up to snap ’em up). Williamsburg is not on my short list but a big enough price cut will move it up to top of my list.
11217..you’re right about a lot of inventory of this kind of crap. But who would substitute this POS as an alternative to what they really want??? Some, of course but no one on this blog, not even BHO or MM. cornerbodega and brickoven probably would. Winelover probably already lives in one, surrounded by illegals.
These places sit unfinished and therefore uninhabitable and are not part of the true inventory numbers.