Heinous Bricks Confirmed at 324 Grand Avenue
As we feared, it’s looking like 324 Grand Avenue is going to be as tough on the eyes as its older sister across the street. Quel bummer! Development Watch: 324-328 Grand Avenue [Brownstoner] 324 Grand Avenue Status Check [Brownstoner] GMAP SWO for 324 Grand Avenue [Brownstoner] P*Shark DOB Development Watch: 328 Grand Avenue [Brownstoner] 328…
As we feared, it’s looking like 324 Grand Avenue is going to be as tough on the eyes as its older sister across the street. Quel bummer!
Development Watch: 324-328 Grand Avenue [Brownstoner]
324 Grand Avenue Status Check [Brownstoner] GMAP
SWO for 324 Grand Avenue [Brownstoner] P*Shark DOB
Development Watch: 328 Grand Avenue [Brownstoner]
328 Grand: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow [Brownstoner]
Razing 328 Grand: What a Waste [Brownstoner]
I don’t livethere- we’re simply commenting on the brick. If you want to make that into a social statement that’s your problem, not ours.
admitted, the brick is ugly. but what’s uglier is the way you guys rip into anyone doing anything to improve the hood you live in.
how well its’ constructed? def, better than most of the other places on the street.
the buildings bring tenants = artists = money = brings up our area.
personally i’m glad someone took the initiative to build up our ‘hood.
you have nothing better to do with your lives? stop ripping into people you don’t know squat about. they never did anything to you except maybe raise the value of the land u’r living on.
This is a blog about Jon posted the thread and asked for reactions. We responded.It’s still a free country.
New cheap ugly brick is new cheap ugly brick. And if the detail photo is any indication, I wonder how well it’s contructed overall.
not debating impovemt vs. what was there. The headline is asking for comments on the brick. The brick is ugly.
Oh get a life people. The owners built a beautiful building to replace the overgrown dilapidated lot that was there before. They added class to the neighborhood if you ask me. So what if some people don’t like the color or the quality of the brick- I don’t hear anyone volunteering to pay for the ones you want…
And 328- it needed to come down. That place was a fire hazard and a disaster. It was falling apart for 30 years before the owners decided to invest and build it up now. I’m surprised the fire marshals didn’t take a wrecking ball to it decades ago. Give the people at 328 credit for adding to the neighborhood and for providing (maybe Heinous, but at least) safe facing to a building you pass every day.
it’s too glossy too – almost like “hey, look here at my ugliness”. Looking at these new construction and the pre-war ones, putting in some sort of pattern with the bricks does wonders too. But like everything else, these new constuction bldgs seem to be designed without any thought
I wonder how this brick will age in the first place. Or will it simply deteriorate?
I’m assuming the brick face is made out of some kind of cheaper composite material rather than clay … but I have no idea why developers continue to pick brown and yellow instead of red.
Personally though, while I prefer real brick by a landslide, I think all brick looks better once it’s been weathered for a few decades (at least). That would probably apply to this stuff, too. Part of the reason I think it stands out so much is that it looks too new.