From Corregated Boxes to White Boxes on N. 4th
Yesterday Curbed reported a tip from a reader that the four-story, block-long building that used to house the S&S Corregated Box Company on North 4th Street between Berry and Wythe is being turned into 99 condos. (According to the Gene Kaufman Architect’s website, where the rendering above comes from, the number’s actually 92; DOB filings…
Yesterday Curbed reported a tip from a reader that the four-story, block-long building that used to house the S&S Corregated Box Company on North 4th Street between Berry and Wythe is being turned into 99 condos. (According to the Gene Kaufman Architect’s website, where the rendering above comes from, the number’s actually 92; DOB filings say 96.) Gene Kaufman also notes that the building originally looked like it was going to be a toughie to convert:
This 450 foot long, full block building, left as an underutilized warehouse, was considered not convertible for residential use due to its 60-foot depth and blind rear lot line. An extra wide hallway served by three separate elevator cores runs the entire 450 length, illuminated by windows at both ends and along the south facing exterior wall, providing a dynamic space to enter the living lofts. The program for 92 lofts and multi-level parking includes the transfer of floor area to create a two story vertical expansion. Restoration of the old brick façade and steel structure is combined with a glass addition. The 130,000 square foot project features luxury interiors by Escobar.
As far as the exterior is concerned, the big cosmetic changes appear to be with the fourth floor and the new fifth-floor addition. (Compare to the existing building on the jump.) That, and the color of the bricks. (To find the project on the Kaufman website, click on projects and scroll down to the one called “The Factory.”)
Rumblings & Bumblings [Curbed] GMAP P*Shark DOB
Photo by Gregg Snodgrass for Property Shark
Long before this was a box manufacturing equipment factory and long before the Europeans came to this land, this site was an Manhasset Indian bathing ground. So if you think you have been here longer than the next guy, you haven’t.
They should leave this building alone. I love the old warehouses and industrial feel and the grittiness. That’s williamsburg. Oh and the luxury condos that have been built should be burned down. Burn baby burn!
Housing for the moderate and lower income people must be considered if this neighborhood is to have any integrity. The north 3-5th street area from Bedford to Kent, seems to be where tall buildings are being proposed. Let’s be sure that all of the buildings here have one third affordable housing. I would prefer the buildings be contextual (under 6 stories) but if not possible I’d rather have tall buildings with enforced one third affordable housing.
Never claimed to know it all, sonny (to play along), just claimed to know that. Actually, did you know that S&S…oh, never mind. You don’t care and that’s fine. I clean the basement regularly and, thanks to the Internet, know exactly what my house is worth, so punks like you pay the same price as everybody else. Sheesh, at least 6:01 has a sense of humor.
The way Billyburg is going, I see two big opportunities. i) Helicopter service to Midtown and Wall St. ii) A new category of MTA employee: Japanese-style shove-the-commuters-onto-the-L workers. Seriously, after all the new construction is occupied, HTF are people meant to get on the subways at rush hour?
Next minute you’re a schmo living in a box making equipment factory
I hate it when know-it-alls post so smugly about their superior knowlege of a city or neighborhood. Yeah, yeah, Pops, you’ve really seen it all. Now, shovel the shit out of that basement you haven’t cleaned since the forties, and sell me your house, cheap.
For all the newbies out there: S&S wasn’t a box factory; it was a manfacturer of box making equipment.
Before y’all moved to Williamsburg, S&S was an oasis in an otherwise dead Bedford Avenue where you could pop inside if you thought you were about to be robbed. It ran three shifts a day not all that long ago … well, actually, before you were born.
That is going to look so much better! Thanks Gene Kaufman.