Horror Show Friday: 1715 11th Avenue
Here’s what the tipster who sent in this photo of 1715 11th Avenue had to say: “one way to ruin a cute row of circa 1940’s Tudor style single family homes? Throw an illegal extension on the roof of one of them and create a stalled work site.” According to this tipster, despite a Stop…
Here’s what the tipster who sent in this photo of 1715 11th Avenue had to say: “one way to ruin a cute row of circa 1940’s Tudor style single family homes? Throw an illegal extension on the roof of one of them and create a stalled work site.” According to this tipster, despite a Stop Work Order still being in place, there was activity on the site last week. Classy. GMAP
Reminds me of the tumor brownstone in Carroll Gardens
“If you stop your fixation of the yellow color you would actually realize that is just a protective cover often used in construction before the outer wall is installed.”
To be covered with what? Vinyl siding? Stucco? Certainly not brick…could not handle the load to roof below.
And even if it could be brick, the dimensions compared to the house are out-of-whack.
Driveways aside, remember when this was built and it’s context, this is ruining the “style” of the block of distinct row houses (again, whether you like their motif or not).
The yellow board is insulation.
DOB revoking *approved permits* for 2nd floor addition… Architect has self-certified this job…
C of O change in works…
I don’t see anything about zoning violations.
Sounds a lot like the garage/curbcut post earlier in the day.
If you stop your fixation of the yellow color you would actually realize that is just a protective cover often used in construction before the outer wall is installed.
How blatantly out of context. Not only disturbing the architectural character of the row of houses (whether you like faux Tudor, Dutch, Euro…whatever), but also not taking the style of the building into affect before throwing the shit box extension on top.
There ARE ways to design the extension of livable space without just tossing some metal studs, plywood and yellow board on the roof…and I’d bet, puke, eventually stucco.
Dormers may have been AOK, or why not bump up the roof line, keeping the slate-style roofing?
Shameful.
If they had gotten the fake brick up faster no one would have ever noticed it. 🙂
And I thought things like this only happened in South Brooklyn.
I looked at the pictures again and just had to highlight the garages and driveways. Imagine this on landmarked Prospect Heights and Park Slope streets? Infinite Jester needs to take a hard long look at these pictures.