Development Watch: 170 North 11th Street
This new development on North 11th Street between Bedford and Driggs has a big fat Stop Work Order slapped on it for “Work without a Permit”. Otherwise, it looks like it’s pretty close to completion. The design looks fine to us and the light and views are quite nice right now, but how long do…
This new development on North 11th Street between Bedford and Driggs has a big fat Stop Work Order slapped on it for “Work without a Permit”. Otherwise, it looks like it’s pretty close to completion. The design looks fine to us and the light and views are quite nice right now, but how long do you think that vacant lot in the foreground is going to remain unbuilt?
Stop Work Order [DOB] GMAP P*Shark
Another boring and very unattractive building. Yawn.
RobertDD,
2:30 here…OK, fair enough, you don’t like people who interfere with other people’s business just to spite them or to exact revenge. I feel the same way.
But to me, the DOB is so lax about everything that you pretty much have to go out of your way to get a stop work order slapped on your building. And if they didn’t put up a shed (or if it was somehow inadequate) then the DOB owes it to the public to make the builder comply. Obviously it appears that they have not been in compliance. Someone could get killed.
I don’t see why you have a problem with the SWO. I don’t want to see half-completed projects either, but I want the project area to be safe for the neighbors and the finished project to be of sound construction for the buyers/renters. If there are questions about either aspect, A stop work order is about the only thing the DOB can do, and I think it’s OK.
Many of these guys work through stop work orders anyway – it’s just a part of the cost of doing business to them, because the DOB has no teeth and many think there is widespread corruption within the DOB anyway. So I would surmise that this developer must have messed up big time.
The architect is Gene Kaufman (was involved in Schaeffer Landing and did buildings on Havemeyer/N5 and Dunham/S6 among others).
The site across the street IS toxic, but its lead, not sludge. The site across the street is also zoned R7, so whenever something does go in, it will be taller than this building.
(There were enviro issues at this site too (not lead), but one would hope they’ve been properly remediated.)
I don’t like NIMBYs because I was accosted by these two older woman (one of them my neighbor) that I should get involve in stopping any changes or progress in Brooklyn. I ofcourse did not join them.
But they go around to meetings and try to learn ways to attack developers at any cost. I think they should just worry about their gardens than on stupid issues like these.
I think that once a development is off ground then they should let the developer finished the job. I hate all this annoying waits and then you get some bad stories of unfinished buildings.
RobertDD,
What is this NIMBY hangup you’ve got?
Please read the DOB link – I think the main problem stems from the developer’s own stupidity in not bothering “to protect the public” by not putting up a sidewalk shed. (although one is certainly visible now in the photo.)
Anyway, kind of a stupid mistake to make, and one that’s kind of a big middle finger to everyone, IMO.
They can fully blame themselves, seems to me.
Please stop with all the NIMBY rhetoric. It’s unimaginative and annoying.
Oh great another abandon new buildings that is soon going to be home to drugdealers.
I am sure that NIMBYs are involve in getting this progress on the work to stop.
All the brick you see there has been painted on. Very cheap construction. People won’t realize this for about two years, at which time things will start to fail — or peal off.
Who’s the architect?
I agree with Bob999 – This looks pretty cool to me too; the architect has talent. Like the zigzagging “S.”