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From Atlantic Yards Report comes the sad news that the Spalding Building at 24 6th Avenue is being prepped to meet its maker. Another clear example of an architectural eyesore that needed to be purged from the blighted neighborhood. Not. Ratner purchased the building for $2,200,000 in August 2009. As far as we can figure out, there’s still that last-minute lawsuit out there involving the building’s air rights too.
The Spalding Building Is Prepared For Its Fate [AYR] GMAP
Photo by Raul Rothblatt


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  1. as for those developers using the ‘cabbage patch’ argument – there’s a difference between natural growth and state funded boondoogles – but there is also the realization destroying buildings and building new ones is not a way to ‘keep the economy going’ anymore than digging useless holes and filling them up again keeps the economy going. To keep the economy going you need real industry- exactly the find of thing the new york elite have gone out of their way to displace.

  2. What makes brooklyn beautiful? Ratner’s metrotech? Or her old historic buildings? Ratner’s ghetto malls? or Fort Greene brownstones.

    The fact remains ratner seized via corruption and probably bribery – private property – using the threat of the state’s power. He robbed middle class homeowners to line his own pockets- hes’ a crook, through and through.

    With this building, the old ward bakery-, and the nice italianate townhouses that have been razed, we had an area that could have become a “Tribeca’ now we have tax payer funded parking lots and Ratner’s notoriously ugly, poorly designed buildings.