Development Watch: 614 7th Avenue
After years of struggle, the development site at 614 7th Avenue that caught media attention for its potential to block the views from the Minerva statue in nearby Green-Wood Heights Cemetery to the Statue of Liberty finally ended up with a design that both DOB and the community could live with—eleven 14-foot-wide townhouses. Though not…
After years of struggle, the development site at 614 7th Avenue that caught media attention for its potential to block the views from the Minerva statue in nearby Green-Wood Heights Cemetery to the Statue of Liberty finally ended up with a design that both DOB and the community could live with—eleven 14-foot-wide townhouses. Though not completed yet, they’ve been on the market since January, now for $999,000. A tipster walked by last week and was not particularly impressed: Along with this photo of the townhouse at the corner of 23rd Street and 7th Avenue, here’s what he had to say. “No rebar in this wall, many holes cut, many filled in and now, wacky windows.” Update: In the name of fair and balanced coverage, we’ve posted a photo below from Denton of the front of this development.
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So no one thinks its horrible design to have the entire front of the house taken up by a garage door, which means the entire curb frontage is a cut? What a travesty! This is like the grossest of San Francisco 50’s-80’s style houses which have the same layout.
dibs that was racist.
> Very, very bad feng shui living within sight of a cemetary.
The dead are quiet neighbors. Until they aren’t, in which case, aim for the head.
Very, very bad feng shui living within sight of a cemetary. They look better than most other new townhouse development that we’ve seen.
Many developers would have put much uglier, less functional, and intentionally more downmarket construction on this site– and many continue to do so on nearby blocks.
Regardless of how you feel about the aesthetic, I think it’s wonderful that someone attempted slightly upscale and modern design for single family homes across the street from this landmark cemetary.
“I suppose it’s nice to have the garage, but do you think there is any way to fit some greenery in front of these places? ”
SS, you can always go across the street and plant some flowers 🙂
PS: The second series of shots, along with the shot from the OP, are on the 23rd Street side, not the 7th Avenue side.
This annoyed me so much I walked over just now to get some, shall we say, ‘contextual’ views?
If you go to the below image and click ‘next’ you will see a series of four images. The last image shows a close up of the wall that the OP sent to Mr. B.
If you look at it in closeup, it appears that this wall was part of another older building, and that the developer chose to incorporate it into the new building in some way. Don’t they call that ‘green’ these days?
http://www.pbase.com/dentontay/image/114149246
imo these are quite a bit above the ‘fedders’ buildings that have been inflicted on the SS/GH area. As to the quality of construction, who knows? Any worse than what’s gone up on 4th Avenue?
The Graves Have Eyes.