Development Watch: 36 St. Felix Street
This new building at 36 St. Felix Street in Fort Greene kinda snuck up on us; then again, for some reason we don’t end up going on that block very often. Regardless, the borough now has one more soulless building on its landscape. This particular one, though apparently basically finished, may not have a resident…
This new building at 36 St. Felix Street in Fort Greene kinda snuck up on us; then again, for some reason we don’t end up going on that block very often. Regardless, the borough now has one more soulless building on its landscape. This particular one, though apparently basically finished, may not have a resident any time soon as there remains a Stop Work Order on it. Does anyone know if this was built as affordable housing? It’s hard to imagine it doing too well on the open market. GMAP P*Shark DOB
Only a visionary like Federesky would utilize valuable frontage area for locating the stairs and the stair landing windows. Its not just quality housing, its genius!
I suspect that the stairwell windows were installed to satisfy a “Quality Housing” requirement. (perhaps an oxymoron in this case – however, Quality Housing isn’t about aesthetics). Essentially a developer gets additional floor area and reduced lot coverage for providing double glazed windows, natural light in the public hallways/stairs, laundry facilities, etc.
Like other zoning blunders, such as bonus plazas, it was a good idea 15 years ago. But more recently Quality Housing gave away ‘free’ floor area in projects that would have included many of the amentites anyway.
jeesh, you guys, those off-center windows are intended as an ironic gesture that conveys a certain onomastic and yet ultimately mundane reflection on the state of gentrification and its overarching associations with the banal and the sublime.
They also symbolize a subtle nod to climate change and a subliminal assertion that the planet is going to hell in handbasket.
Federesky will be speaking at the MAS next week.
To be filed under “what were they thinking?”
> Looks like the rear of any tenament building.
Maybe they accidentally built it bassackwards?
Could those be windows in the stairwells on the landings between floors?
“Federesky” is pure genius.
What’s up with the mis-aligned windows? Are they building half floors, “John Malkovich”-style?
Looks like the rear of any tenament building.