Playing Catch-Up at the Newswalk Building
We’ve gazed at the 300,000-square-foot Newswalk building (mentioned twice in yesterday’s
We’ve gazed at the 300,000-square-foot Newswalk building (mentioned twice in yesterday’s commentary) countless times from the Atlantic Avenue side but never really stopped to stare at the wacky Dean Street side of the project that put Shaya Boymelgreen on the map as a developer in Brooklyn back in 2000. The conversion required a zoning change for three city blocks. As we were still living in that other borough across the river at the time, though, we’d appreciate a little history lesson on the conversion. Who designed it? How controversial was it? And has there been much turnover at the 150-unit building recently? What kind of price per square foot are the apartments commanding?
Newswalk Building Spared by Ratner [Village Voice] GMAP P*Shark
Newswalk Marketing Site [Condos in Brooklyn]
Current Newswalk Listing [Corcoran]
Hey Anon 2.29. I don’t even live in PH and while I agree that PH is not the same as B Heights etc., it sure is not the crime ridden hole you seem to want to drone on about. Just because people discuss things on a message board does not mean a neighborhood is bad. I used to live in Carroll Gardens, historically one of the safest neighborhoods in the city according to crime stats, and knew of plenty of break ins, drugs, and muggings. Get off your high horse there toodles.
Heh, once again another person from the run-down, arson-happy, drugs, and crime-ridden Prospect Heights person is trying to equate their neighborhood with the rest of Brooklyn.
Park Slope, Bay Ridge, Ditmas Park, Brooklyn Heights, Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, heck…Red Hook hardly has the problems Prospect Heights has had. Neighborhood of the Year, indeed. Go no further than looking at your own Prospect Heights message board site, and search on “crime” or “drugs” etc. YOUR OWN PEOPLE freely admit as much.
Please just accept that your neck of the woods is in fact the skids and always has been, unlike other nicer areas of Brooklyn.
Your area is nothing like Brooklyn Heights. Your area is nothing like Park Slope. Your area is nothing like Bay Ridge. Your area is nothing like Ditmas park. Your area is nothing like Cobble Hill. I could go on and on, and could cite a zillion articles and published crime, drugs, arson and dangerous abandoned buildings in your neighborhood.
But, your neighbors have made all that nice and easy, as it’s all right there within the honest, actual day-to-day citizen’s reports at http://dailyheights.com .
Quit trying to convince yourself that your neighborhood is anything like the rest of Brooklyn (except perhaps BedStuy, which I hear is coming up much faster than PH, even without an arena to spur development.
Tear down Brooklyn, there are too many buildings and vacant lots in this borough that don’t appeal to Anon.
Tear the Borough down. YAY!
It’s a good thing we have more mature, intelligent, evolved human beings amongst us to remind us of the seriousness of this forum and the subject of brownstones in general. God forbid this should be a mere entertaining repartee on a purely fun level.
What I love about anonymous forums is that you really get to understand that most “grown-ups” still think like 15 year olds. Hence revealing the true meaning of the expression “arrested development”. Mental development that is.
i’ve lived in newswalk for four years and it is GREAT building. the people here are friendly with real interactions. every day i feel as though this is a real home. i have a spectacular loft with views to n.j.
totally happy. Shaya did a great job on this project.
Now Ladies, meet me at the newswalk in my 4th floor love pad.
Hrummph!
I”ll give you sexist, you nagging hag.
haha. That too is a joke. Lighten up!