Permits Renewed for Dean Street Project
Permits were just renewed for the unfinished project at 340 Dean Street, between 3rd and 4th avenues. The new building application—for an eight-unit Scarano design—was first approved in 2007. Construction has been stalled for a while now, but it appears that the original plans are still in place. This is a block away from the…
Permits were just renewed for the unfinished project at 340 Dean Street, between 3rd and 4th avenues. The new building application—for an eight-unit Scarano design—was first approved in 2007. Construction has been stalled for a while now, but it appears that the original plans are still in place. This is a block away from the eye-catching new development 396 Dean. GMAP DOB
If you go the other way down the block, there is a mixed bag of styles, ages, heights, widths, and materials.
“The frame houses have mostly been renovated (this is Dean St, after all) and very charming. ”
Really, Bxgrl??
OK, I invite everyone to do the following. Please go to Google maps and type in the address above. Then take a Streetview look at the row of homes next to this new construction. Here is what you will see:
1) first house next to it (the gray house shown in the photo above): the top half is sagging clapboard. The bottom half has been replaced by cheap plywood and painted gray.
2) 2nd house: red aluminum siding.
3) 3rd house: stuccod over, ala Garden St. Brickface. One of the windows is boarded up.
4) 4th, 5th and 6th house: clapboard
5) Remaining 4 houses in the row: aluminum siding.
As to this statement:
“if any of you are going to walk down that block expecting the hellhole benson is promising, you’ll be sorely disappointed.”
Here is what I wrote about this block:
“This block has seen a spate of new construction in the past few years, and it is a welcome addition.”
I guess benson is not using his eyes.
I often go down this street- it’s on our bus route. The frame houses have mostly been renovated (this is Dean St, after all) and very charming. Yes there is a mix, but if any of you are going to walk down that block expecting the hellhole benson is promising, you’ll be sorely disappointed.
May I ask a question?
Can someone explain to me how they know that this design is not good when we have no idea of what the facade will look like? All we know is the envelope of this building. How can people say that it is non-contextual and bad design?
Benson, you presume you know so much about me, I have NEVER said I don’t like modern design. I like good modern design. In this place, next to its neighbors, is not good modern design. That’s what I think, and I’m sticking with it. I am quite familiar with the block, and with its progress over the last 10 years.
Herkimer street is exactly as Minard noted, and an entirely different story.
Get a grip yourself, you’re starting to foam at the mouth again.
There is an old apartment building as tall as this 2 lots down the street, and a lager modern apartment building 5 lots down.
Directly across the street there is a school building as tall.
All within 1 block of the 3rd largest subway complex in the city.
benson, what mitigates the height in older buildings like the ones on Herkimer street is that they are designed in the same classical vocabulary as the houses. They have punched windows with sills and decorative lintels, they have nice stonework etc etc. That helps.
On the other hand, a building designed with sliding glass windows and projecting concrete balconies is more jarring.
good – nothing wrong with a little architectural diversity.
How can a building that is 1.5 stories higher than its neighbors be called non-contextual?!?!?!?!!??!!? Modern design is not your cup of tea – fine. Calling this non-contextual -good grief, get a grip. Pretend that it’s the building on Herkimer St. that Cristopher Gray discussed.