Red Hook Un-Modern: CB6 Dings Townhouse Proposal
To the great surprise of local developer Marshall Sohne (who’s done conversion and development projects on Tiffany Place and DeGraw Street), Community Board 6 has overwhelmingly rejected his proposal for three modern townhouses on the corner of Columbia and Woodhull Streets in Red Hook. Evidently, board members didn’t like that the defining material of the…
To the great surprise of local developer Marshall Sohne (who’s done conversion and development projects on Tiffany Place and DeGraw Street), Community Board 6 has overwhelmingly rejected his proposal for three modern townhouses on the corner of Columbia and Woodhull Streets in Red Hook. Evidently, board members didn’t like that the defining material of the proposed buildings was metal. It’s not that the committee is against modern, it’s that the committee wants some elements of the existing Columbia Street stock, incorporated in the design, said Land Use Committee czar Jerry Armer. As far as Sohne is concerned, context doesn’t mean a whole lot when the surroundings are “pretty much some crumbling buildings, barbed wire, and used car lots. Since the community board’s vote is purely advisory in nature, there will be no changes to the plans before they go in front of the BSA.
Land Use Committee Doesn’t Welcome Columbia St. Plan [Courier Life]
A Red Hook Renewal on Tiffany Place [NY Times]
Photo by Kate Leonova for Property Shark
7:22 is misinformed. As a board member of the Carroll Garden’s Association, Inc. Mr Scotto attempted to get infill housing built at what is now the Post Graduate Center metal health facility site. The community board rejected the proposal. The State then took the property, presumably to avoid a City ULURP process and sold it to PGC. The Carroll Garden’s Association was one of many petitioners’ in a proceeding to stop the project. A stay was granted. Environmental issues were raised. But the project was not built because PGC fell on hard times. The Carroll Garden’s Association many numerous attempts during the intervening years to get the property transfered back to the City for the purposes of building the infill housing, but to no avial. So you can blame Buddy for wanting an educational campus, open space, and housing with a mix of one third low, one third moderate and one third market by the waterfront, but not for the PGC facility.
Dear Sam and Joe Show,
I got that loud and clear from some of the others, who seem to be extremely PO’d at the city agencies and I do know that policy regarding RedHook has been bungled and it has suffered a history of confused initiatives from NY City from Moses on down. And probably having a real stake in the real Red Hook, you are very sensitive to wiseasses like me. So, I am sorry OK? Peace.
donatella,
red hook is treated like a second class neighborhood by the CB6 and city agencies, in part because of people like you who try to propagate an image of it being a fun neighborhood to ogle at on the way to fairways, but without any real merit as a place to live. and yet the real estate market in Red Hook is thriving, proving that there is a very real market for people who appreciate everything that it has to offer: the mix of ethnicity and class; the artists and galleries; the beautiful working waterfront; the breathtaking views including a full frontal of the statue of liberty. so yes, we get angry when you insist on trying to knock red hook down, taking jabs when ever brownstoner presents you with an opportunity. red hook has been crapped on for so long by this city that I would hope more people would be rooting for its continued revitalization and share the excitement of its early stages of renaissance.
I liked donatella’s comment and I LIVE in Red Hook (which is why I thanked her). Y’all need to calm down.
Dear 11:22,
That was a gentle joke, my friend, please don’t be offended. It wasn’t meant that way.
Have a good day.
dear donatella,
i imagine that your neighborhood is about as boring and repetitive as your posts are.
Dear 10:44, Thank you darlin’ for paying attention.
donatella,
your a broken record.
a columbia street resident:
cb6, buddy scotto, and all his cronies sure were up in arms when a battered womens shelter moved into carroll gardens “proper” a few years ago, but you can be sure they don’t care about something like a halfway house as long as it’s not too close to them. Oh, and as long as it’s ‘brick, limestone, brownstone’ too.