Development Watch: 163 Washington Gets Glassy
With its sales launch date only four month or so away, the condo project at 163 Washington Avenue in Clinton Hill is starting to come into focus. In addition to the brick, you can now see what the windows look like. This’ll be a very interesting one to watch as it hits the market. 163…
With its sales launch date only four month or so away, the condo project at 163 Washington Avenue in Clinton Hill is starting to come into focus. In addition to the brick, you can now see what the windows look like. This’ll be a very interesting one to watch as it hits the market.
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Development Watch: 163 Washington Topping Out [Brownstoner]
Development Watch: 163 Washington Avenue [Brownstoner]
Windy Times at 163 Washington [Brownstoner] GMAP
What’s Up With 163 Washington Avenue? [Brownstoner] DOB
Development Watch: 163 Washington Avenue Rising [Brownstoner]
Development Watch: 163 Washington Avenue Takes Root [Brownstoner]
Back in Business at 163 Washington Avenue [Brownstoner]
Work Resuming at 163 Washington Avenue? [Brownstoner]
11th Hour Compromise at 163 Washington? [Brownstoner]
Fate of 163 Washington Avenue Still TBD [Brownstoner]
BSA Considers 163 Washington Plans For a 3rd Time [Brownstoner]
Day of Reckoning for 163 Washington Avenue? [Brownstoner]
How often do folks frequent this area? Sure, this building might not be your style. But, have you taken a walk down this block all the way to Park Ave… or to Flushing **GASP** for that matter? There are quite a few buildings that are in anything but attractive/ well-maintained condition. And, even one that’s sitting vacant and collecting vagrants and trash as lawn ornaments. Then there’s Hall street (the back side of this building)- not too many winners there.
I’ll take an ugly building (whose management is very likely going to maintain its property) over something appropriately-quaint (whose tenants/owners let litter accumulate in hopes of using it as some sort of monetary instrument when we’re all living in water world).
Anyway, if they don’t finish that thing soon who’s going to support Fresh Fanatic’s addiction for selling $6/Lb shallots & $20/Lb cheese? Who damn it!?
Actually glass makes sense here. Because it slipped in before rezoning, the views from the building will be unobstructed. What I don’t get is the grey brick. Could it be uglier? I remembering hearing about how the mayor of Tirana, Albania, repainted buildings bright colors there. Wouldn’t it have been better to have a huge mosaic of a tree or even a blown up representation of a brownstone looming over Clinton Hill. Or maybe a rainbow…
Bsquared – you mean like 50 years ago when everyone lived in a brownstone just like everyone else’s brownstone and everyone was begging for some glass? I for one like new and glass covered buildings much more than dilapidated 100 year old crap houses that were never meant to live this long.
Sheesh…when is all of this going to end? Can you imagine in 5 years when everyone will be tired of glass and living in a fishbowl that’s looks like everyone else’s fishbowl? This building is so out of context. It’s an eyesore and a further insult. When will this high rising of Brooklyn end? One would have thought that the developers had already lost their shirts or at least would have a loud and clear clue that this has got to stop.
To me, this building makes even less sense than the finger building. You’re at least a 10 minute walk from the G Train, and the rest of the buildings on the block are crumbling and neglected clapboard houses. so 2007.
can we please start calling this Finger Building Part II. this building is so incredibly out of scale for this neighborhood and it ignores the context around it completely! this building could be put down in any city across America… it is a real shame.