Fortress Rising on 19th Street
In February 2008, a developer purchased the small frame house at 277 19th Street for $879,458. By June he’d gotten his demolition permits. He applied for New Building permits around the same time, but it wasn’t until January of this year that they were approved. Since then, the builders have been making up for lost…
In February 2008, a developer purchased the small frame house at 277 19th Street for $879,458. By June he’d gotten his demolition permits. He applied for New Building permits around the same time, but it wasn’t until January of this year that they were approved. Since then, the builders have been making up for lost time, throwing up what will be a five-story, nine-family (!) structure where the two-story house used to stand. The buttressed design comes courtesy of Scarano School of Architecture grad Natalya Donskoy. What a doozie! GMAP P*Shark DOB
This is another quality Mark Zeldin Development. Think Jackson Place. Here is the old house prior to demo.
http://imby.blogspot.com/2008_04_29_archive.html
Looks like the adjoining property owners have had to bend over and grab their shoe laces on this one as well.
Multiple Stop Work Orders and ECB violations.
04/22/2009 FULL STOP WORK ORDER SERVED FOR EXCAVATING APPROX 3 FT IN DEPTH AND MUDDY WATER IS SEEPING THROUGH ADJ CELLAR WALL
03/05/2010 FULL STOP WORK ORDER SERVED
5 VIOL ISSUED FOR VARIOUS SAFETY ISSUES/FAIL TO PROTECT ADJ ROOFS&REAR YARD.
For those who like to keep track of this sort of thing, Marie Grasso (MGM DEMO) still owes $2500 in unpaid fines on this job dating back to 5/22/08. I thought they were going after her to collect these outstanding fines?
http://tinyurl.com/2wl85vt
Sorry, misspelled SCARano…
And now you all see that yesterday’s “tile house” is definitely the winner in this 19th St. throw down.
Who in their right minds at BK Developers thought this was a good idea, let alone a good design?
Any “archies” out there, ‘cos this seems to violate R6B ZR by going beyond the streetwall of the adjacent structures. And don’t tell me that column is not structural.
Scarnao continues to leave his mark (unfortunately) even after his demise.
Thanks Bob.
or is that actually gonna be all building going out past the other houses? lame.
What’s the deal with these buildings with non-functional exoskeletons? There’s one like this up on Maspeth Ave and I’ve always wondered why.
The building that stood there before was a little pitch-roofed front porch number– covered in siding, but would have made a nice little house for someone. Had a great cornice. Easily as attractive as those houses at the far end of vanderbilt the Times ran a piece about a few weeks back.
Then they knocked it down, and….nothing. Maybe the developer lost his loan, maybe he was just waiting. They had already cut the huge hole in the ground and wrecked the whole sidewalk.
Two years went by. Generations of rats grew up and pondered the meaning of life. Somehow the mud from the site came to cover the sidewalk in front of the site too. Doog poop farmers tended their ever growing crop.
Now we have a weird carbuncled brick edifice rising– hunched over the site like an ugly insect mouth ready to eat the little wooden houses across the street. I feel bad that I can’t but view it as an improvement on the two years of developer-caused blight.
OMG. It’s hideous. Another eyesore. Everything that makes me cringe about my neighborhood. By the way, it’s Greenwood, not Greenpoint as the heading states.
Send her back to the old country
Whatevs. It’s not as if that block is festooned with architectural gems.