Keep Passing Broken Windows
We have to admit to feeling a certain satisfaction as the developers of one of the biggest eyesores and examples of crapola design in Clinton Hill have struggled to find suckers to move into their new building. They gave up trying to find a buyer a while ago and have spent the last couple of…
We have to admit to feeling a certain satisfaction as the developers of one of the biggest eyesores and examples of crapola design in Clinton Hill have struggled to find suckers to move into their new building. They gave up trying to find a buyer a while ago and have spent the last couple of months looking for renters. Just last night we noticed some lights on in the top unit for the first time. Still no takers for the lower triplex, which includes this broken window on the second floor (it’s been like this for several weeks). We can only hope that other developers of the Fedders variety take note of how long it has taken to get just one apartment rented here.
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Electro geek – I hear the developers are actually installing 3 ready made sheets of brick walls, crazy glue them together, sod the front, then hide while they wait for the next sucker to buy. If no sucker in 6 months then they Section 8.
I’ll take a vacant lot and a strong block association any day.
I like living in my bunker. I feel safe in my bunker.
True indeed the DOB final touches. It’s going to be a blast when the next drunk swerves off the road and right into one of those corner Fedder building.
armchair warrior & electrogeek:
For almost 20yrs I have lived down the block from the vacant lot that this building was built on. I will take the vacant lot anyday. How can you begin to justify this piece of crap?
armchair_warrior, all these carpet baggers arrived after Giuliani. They do not know how NYC was before.
The window is broken on the inside – happens all the time in construction. Someone swings a 2×4 or a pipe the wrong way, and crack.
Doesn’t excuse the fact its a horrendously ugly building. Guess this goes to show that you can’t just build anything, put a Profile refigerator in it and expect it to sell.
Heh, is it just me or does the window look broken on the inside? I’ve seen a lot of that in the new crapdevelopment around my hood. A building is fixed up but vacant, or a new building is still vacant and the developers just leave the broken interior panes as-is. Until it sells I guess?
Anon 1:10–
This building is on Greene, not Grand. The block is actually pretty nice. The rowhouses across the street are some of my favorites; too bad they’re not landmarked.
Even if I had no problems with the aesthetics of this building, let’s not forget that it has EXTERNAL GAS PIPES AND METERS on the front of the house, on the first floor. Thank you DOB!
Actually they do build new brownstones – ie. quality infill. Around the corner on Greene nearer to Washington; carriage house on Waverly featured about a month ago; new townhouse on State in Boerum Hill. All of those are examples of tasteful and high-end design. My colleague who lives across the street from this piece of crap calls it the Gaza Strip. What Mr. Brownstoner is trying to express is a community standard of design. And even better for you free marketters out there, he is pointing out that the market is rejecting it. Maybe next time the developer will actually hire an architect or base his/her building on something more attractive than a bunker.