27 Cranberry Going Mod
27 Cranberry Street, the 25-by-100 lot that recently sold for $1,500,000 (to developer Louis Greco!), is now going through the design phase. The Brooklyn Eagle dishes on the modern design: Subject to approval from the LPC, it’ll be a four-story single family home with a mostly glass facade and a stoop. An underground squash court…
27 Cranberry Street, the 25-by-100 lot that recently sold for $1,500,000 (to developer Louis Greco!), is now going through the design phase. The Brooklyn Eagle dishes on the modern design: Subject to approval from the LPC, it’ll be a four-story single family home with a mostly glass facade and a stoop. An underground squash court and pool are also planned. The CB2 Land Use Committee has given its approval, but the LPC hearing date was laid over from November 9th. The Brooklyn Heights Association expressed its concern over the width of the home and the glass facade. According to the Brooklyn Eagle, “The architect said the design is contemporary and not intended to imitate its neighbors. Although much limestone will be included, the style will differ.” We’ll see what the LPC thinks. In the meantime, we’ll trade our first-born for a rendering!
Modern House Planned Beside Historic Cranberry St. Neighbors [BK Eagle]
Heights Lot Sells for $1,500,000 [Brownstoner]
Minard, you’re right.
But that’s the difference between old money and new money….people with “new money” usually have more of it!!!!
I have not commented here for a while but I feel compelled to do so in this case. First of all, jessibaby nails it. The people who build private squash courts and tennis courts more than likely cannot get in the private clubs.
A new massive McMansion here will be a shame. It will crowd the 1830’s house next door, one of the oldest houses in Brooklyn. The excavation required for a squash court will be enormous, obscene even. I feel sorry for the neighbors. Too bad someone did not buy the lot in order to create a garden.
squash court = awesome
I think everyone should ease up on the criticism of the squash court in the basement. If someone can afford to pay $1.5m for a vacant lot, it would make sense that they might want to spend some of their wealth on a squash court or a massive wine cellar to house their $1,500 bottles. The squash court will be out of sight in the privacy of their home.
Plus, I can think of a lot worse ways they could be spending their wealth, like say trying to erect a house with modern glass facade.
Hey, at least they’re not using vinyl siding.
Guess I’ll never understand this type of (in)conspicuous consumption. 🙂
Blayze – put down the pom poms and click this link. It’s all gonna be okay:
http://cfa.aiany.org/index.php?section=PE2009&expid=89
Noki…your “whine cellar” is awfully big itself. 🙂
Pete, precisely.
I was going to say also that the kinds of people who buy 150 thousand dollar empty lots, put in private squash courts and swimming pools and hire starchitects to help squash (get it?) likely protestations to an extremely contemporary design that would be totally out of place in an historic neighborhood in which people really and truly care about that kind of thing, are not the kinds of people who give much whoop-dee-do what said neighbors think.
Oh, and the tax breaks they will likely be enjoying under our new Republican cavalry — while the lowly masses simply hold their breath hoping for a job (ANY job), or health care or a stay on the loss of their home, or a chance to possibly still be able to afford college for their kid, or a monthly Metrocard — probably bought the squash court AND the swimming pool. Maybe a wine cellar too.