New Northern Crown Heights Hotel in the Works
A large lot on Atlantic Avenue between Nostrand and New York avenues that used to be a place where you could (according to a sign that’s still hanging there) buy live poultry is now a hotel development site. Foundation work is underway on the property, which, per DOB filings is going to be a 5-story,…
A large lot on Atlantic Avenue between Nostrand and New York avenues that used to be a place where you could (according to a sign that’s still hanging there) buy live poultry is now a hotel development site. Foundation work is underway on the property, which, per DOB filings is going to be a 5-story, 54-room hotel. The view is of train tracks, and it’s a couple blocks from the Crown Heights armory, where the city wants to relocate a homeless intake center from Manhattan. Competition for the Nu and Le Bleu? GMAP DOB
I love those apartment buildings! they must have been wonderful back then. It may be that the doors were replaced but the interiors weren’t really changed? Hard to know. did you have beautiful woodwork and fireplaces in there? we have some truly amazing apartment buildings in the nabe. Some are such architectural fanstasies. Wish we were able to find out more about what the interiors looked like originally.
If they removed the fire escapes, wouldn’t they have put in sprinklers systems then?
Brownstoner:
(So here’s a third try, this time consisting of the second part of my post.)
….The photo also shows the six story building next to the lot on Pacific Street. This is where the block’s decline began during the time when Crown Heights was subject to block-busting and speculation by dummy real-estate companies fronting for absentee landlords. Here the apartments were chopped up and rented to transients, creating a gauntlet of young men swigging alcohol near the corner of Nostrand Avenue. A shame, really, because it was a nice looking building in a kind of Spanish Renaissance style, and with an elevator, which means it was among the newer buildings on the block (and certainly erected for a middle-class tenantry).
From this location, the block’s problems spread as other landlords pressured long-term residents to move, cutting back on services and turning apartments into rooming houses. (I was happy to see on my drive that the building in the photo appears recently renovated and in much better shape than I remember.)
I hope that the hotel planned for Atlantic is legitimate and doesn’t compromise its neighbors’ hard work in bringing Crown Heights back. Condos along Pacific are a nice idea. Although it was good to have that view.
(To this day I have a painting my father, a Sunday artist, did from our front windows, one of several making our view his subject. The trees are lush, the railroad station trim and bright, and the tower of Boys High a punctuation mark in the sky. Nice.)
Nostalgic on Park Avenue
Brownstoner:
(Apologies for the second posting, but some of the text was lost the first time.)
I remember this lot from days growing up in Crown Heights during the 1950s. It was, in fact, right across the street from the apartment where my family lived on Pacific Street. (The front of our building is visible in the left-hand corner of the photo above.)
Sure, empty lots aren’t so great, but this one opened views of the Brooklyn skyline from the French windows in our living room and dining room. Pacific Street had several big trees at the time so the lot was pretty well screened, the sky above rolling to distant church towers and that grand daddy of all Brooklyn campaniles, Boys High School. Much better than looking at another apartment building!
When the leaves fell, the LIRR station on Atlantic Avenue appeared. This was a very old-fashioned number, made of wood with a shingle roof. It was painted green and yellow, cheerful to look at and a pleasant reminder of the trips the family took to visit friends on the Island or to go to the Hamptons.
Our living room had a very deep window seat, so it was possible to open the casement windows and look directly up to the sky and follow the paths of planes going to and from La Guardia. To this day, the sound of planes bring me back to my childhood and pleasant thoughts of travel, all derived from sitting for hours in that window seat, trying to do my homework.
(On a recent drive by the building, I was sad to see that the French windows have been knocked out and replaced with double hung ones. Also, the fire escapes have been removed, which means that our old place must have been gutted and completely rearranged. Too bad,
Brownstoner:
I remember this lot from days growing up in Crown Heights during the 1950s. It was, in fact, right across the street from the apartment where my family lived on Pacific Street. (The front of our building is visible in the left-hand corner of the photo above.)
Sure, empty lots aren’t so great, but this one opened views of the Brooklyn skyline from the French windows in our living room and dining room. Pacific Street had several big trees at the time so the lot was pretty well screened, the sky above rolling to distant church towers and that grand daddy of all Brooklyn campaniles, Boys High School. Much better than looking at another apartment building!
When the leaves fell, the LIRR station on Atlantic Avenue appeared. This was a very old-fashioned number, made of wood with a shingle roof. It was painted green and yellow, cheerful to look at and a pleasant reminder of the trips the family took to visit friends on the Island or to go to the Hamptons.
Our living room had a very deep window seat, so it was possible to open the casement windows and look directly up to the sky and follow the paths of planes going to and from La Guardia. To this day, the sound of planes bring me back to my childhood and pleasant thoughts of travel, all derived from sitting for hours in that window seat, trying to do my homework.
(On a recent drive by the building, I was sad to see that the French windows have been knocked out and replaced with double hung ones. Also, the fire escapes have been removed, which means that our old place must have been gutted and completely rearranged. Too bad, because the apartments were spacious, elegant, and great for families.)
The photo also shows the
More power to you, ACHL- still doesn’t relate that to the new hotel in CHN.
Don’t bother with spitting the pits out here, people in glass houses shouldn’t spit, period.
Sweet! We could copy the state government and spit the pits out in northern crown heights!
bxgrl & 4:04…
lol…how about in trying to prove a point I googled and found the information…it’s called research people. Hilarious!
I just bet she does. Maybe you two will be the new biff and dave.
Funny that you would know the going rates for hourly places. I can only assume how you would know – However since you are so arrogantly sure of what will happen I can only say please keep your hourly business out of the CHN hotel and in your own house. 🙂
As for moreteasir- You don’t have enough class for the Bronx or CHN. Well luckily for you, you can go over to ACHL’s place- she’s not cheap but she does charge hourly. And you can both commiserate over the fall of Crown Heights North.