Development Watch: 414 Hicks Street
A reader just sent in this update of the six-story building rising at 414 Hicks Street along with this note: “Fucking massive. Will strain PS29. Insufficient parking. Can’t wait.” A ringing endorsement if we ever heard one. Development Watch: 414 Hicks Street [Brownstoner] Development Watch: 414 Hicks Street [Brownstoner] Development Watch: 414 Hicks Street [Brownstoner]…
A reader just sent in this update of the six-story building rising at 414 Hicks Street along with this note: “Fucking massive. Will strain PS29. Insufficient parking. Can’t wait.” A ringing endorsement if we ever heard one.
Development Watch: 414 Hicks Street [Brownstoner]
Development Watch: 414 Hicks Street [Brownstoner]
Development Watch: 414 Hicks Street [Brownstoner]
Development Watch: 414 Hicks Proceeds Apace [Brownstoner]
Development Watch: 414 Hicks Street [Brownstoner] GMAP P*Shark DOB
Columbia-Hicks Development Still Being Tweaked [Brownstoner]
It will be great for renters once they are completed. It will bring the cost of renting down drastically. Of course that means less money for the homeowners or the area but look at it on the bright side. Less rent money means less trips to the Lotto stand and Atlantic City!
I think he claims he pays for it because he’s required by law to keep it clean. But that’s BS: that’s part of the cost of homeownership, and has nothing to do with whether he owns a car and/or parks it there.
(denton- how do you pay for the spot in front of your house? You mean like a parking pad in front of the building?)
“Insufficient” parking means less car trips generated on Clinton and Henry Streets. It’s still probably not insufficient enough.
Yes there go those violin lessens at P.S. 29 once all those ghetto kids arrive! The poor folks just don’t know how to stay with their own poor folks. Good thing we will all be poor very soon!
I don’t think the plight of Bococa vs. Red Hook’s public schools is especially unique or special. From what I’ve seen there are versions of it in every gentrified neighborhood in the borough.
NH, it’s usually 50%, ie, 100 apts, 50 spots. However the law doesn’t force the developer to give them away free. So, most likely there will be some new people who will park on the street. Also, some of them may have guests (how horrible) and some of them may arrive by private automobile, thereby depriving the original tipster of his personal parking spot on the block. Along with his children’s guaranteed spot in PS29.
Zinka, I pay for the spot in front of my house. I have to shovel it and sweep it, else I get fined. Additionally, I have a driveway and a spot behind my house that I pay for.
“Insufficient parking.”
Can’t comment on the other criticisms, but don’t the zoning regs require a certain amount of onsite parking for new developments?
Oh c’mon. Those who insist on driving in NY need to pay for the public space their cars take up, whether parked or driving. They’re huge space hogs. And before you mention gas taxes, those don’t go even a small fraction of the way towards paying for roads.