Development Watch: Rooftop Addition at 386 Wythe Ave
We used to live a block from this old brick manufacturing building at the corner of Wythe and South 4th Street in Williamsburg and used to love going to the Roebling Hall art gallery that used to be in the ground floor. We hadn’t noticed until this week that a sizable addition is springing up…
We used to live a block from this old brick manufacturing building at the corner of Wythe and South 4th Street in Williamsburg and used to love going to the Roebling Hall art gallery that used to be in the ground floor. We hadn’t noticed until this week that a sizable addition is springing up on the roof. It looks like it’s part of a plan to convert the entire building to residential. Total units: 69. GMAP P*Shark DOB
69 x 10 x …
***Bid half off peak comps***
Ahh my old building: ’98 – ’06. RIP Southside. MIss that loft space and the community of creative folks who worked to live there terribly. Hope the new owner of the building paid Scrappy many millions to leave otherwise living on the S4th side will be a huge auditory compromise for residential use.
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BTW, the building was artists lofts for much of the 80s through 00s, but those folks were moved out over the past few years to make way for this.
that’s sad 🙁
*rob*
This building was constructed as the Matchett Candy Factory, probably between 1895 and 1905. It is a gorgeous building (this is a really awful photo, B) – a brick barrel-hinge corner, large segmented window openings, massively-scaled ground-floor openings and lovely decorative iron ties throughout the facade. Truly a powerful work of architecture. Matchett’s presence is a somewhat out of the ordinary, as most of the candy manufacturing was centered a bit further south in Wallabout. (In both cases, the proximity to Williamsburg’s sugar manufacturers surely played a role in location selection.)
As for the addition, it is pretty huge, particularly when you see it from the bridge. But with no idea what it will look like, I’ll hold off on judgement too. I do hope they replace the windows – the existing windows are crappy aluminum replacements.
BTW, the building was artists lofts for much of the 80s through 00s, but those folks were moved out over the past few years to make way for this.
At this point it looks like a large contemporary interpretation of the razor wire on top of the scrap yard wall.
“It’s in Williamsburg. Why does it matter? It couldn’t be out of context with anything there.”
Says the guy who proudly proclaims “i’ve never been to williamsburg”
pwned
Heh – 69 units.
Mr. B, are there any additional windows to report on the Norah Jones house???
This addition doesn’t bother us in the slightest…so far