Scarano Pushback on Smith
Some Carroll Gardens residents are very, very upset about a Scarano building that a developer wants to put up on the corner of Smith Street and Second Place. According to Gowanus Lounge, plans for an 8-story, 46-unit building of glass and metal were recently denied by the Department of Buildings. But neighbors are trying not…
Some Carroll Gardens residents are very, very upset about a Scarano building that a developer wants to put up on the corner of Smith Street and Second Place. According to Gowanus Lounge, plans for an 8-story, 46-unit building of glass and metal were recently denied by the Department of Buildings. But neighbors are trying not to leave anything to chance. Flyers have been popping up all over the nabe urging people to attend to show up for the Carroll Gardens Neighborhood Association meeting on June 11 at 7:30 PM at Buddy Scottos’ Funeral Parlor and to contact Community Board 6 to express concern over the scale and style of the project. And how’s this for street cred? The woman behind the flyers is the great grand daughter of Frank Lloyd Wright’s first cousin by marriage. Okay.
Smith Street Revolt Brewing Over Shiny New Building? [Gowanus Lounge]
Smith Street Could Get Very, Very Shiny [GL] GMAP P*Shark DOB
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Downsizing equals less supply, and more demand, provided we can keep the neighborhood as beautiful and desirable as it is today. Therefor, higher property value.
Boy you are good, I’ve owned here for about that time and done well. But I rented here for 30 years first and now my daughter can’t find an affordable rent in the neighborhood. In the long run? Keynes said in the long run we are all dead. Downzoning raises rents and lowers property values, the iron laws of economics, supply and demand. The essential character is an industrial-maritime working class neighborhood, I like it that way. You want to freeze development at a particular point in time. If this proposed building is the worst thing to happen in the coming development boom then I, personally, have nothing to fear. Building a dense development, above a transit stop, displacing a parking lot is what I think we need more of.
See you at the voting booth. Thats what it comes down to. DeBlasio thinks he can have it both ways, pats on the back from you for downzoning, while preaching about affordable housing.
It’s Scaranos pblebes doing the designs.
He just approves things. They were supposed to shock the monkey and come up with new and wonderfully modern designs.
Part of designing a building is using the best materials possible, not the cheapest.
Brooklyn is pock marked with shabby construction. You should really look before you leap. Many of these buildings are less than afive years old, and look shabby.
“jihad inimical”… Give me break! And if you own in Carroll Gardens for anything more than 5 years you have made a killing and are plenty affluent yourself. You think of down-zoning as devaluing the neighborhood, but in the long run it will preserve the value of the neighborhood. But perhaps you just want to sell at a premium and get out of this nimby infested neighborhood.
Who does Scarano sleep with at the DOB?
There must be a special department of Scarano underlings working full time writing these comments praising his designs.
Who else would think well of them.
His designs are ugly and clumsy.
Like he wants to “ugly-fi” the neighborhood.
“how hard its it to design something that complements the neighbourhood and doesn’t destroy it.”
is the neighborhood so fragile that a single new building can “destroy” it?
I go to those community meetings. Pre-determined agendas led by a few “activists” push a relentless down-zoning jihad inimical to the needs of the 60% of Carrol Gardens residents who rent. Of the 40% who own many are apparently affluent enough to devalue their property by down-zoning. Many are not. I am one of those. Most of my money is wrapped up in my house and I don’t want my Floor Area Ratio restricted by turning the R6 to R5. At least not for free. And, many people agree with me. I’d like to see one community meeting open to presenting the arguments against down-zoning, of which there are many. Believe it or not there are downsides to down-zoning.
Cocco, be honest, you couldnt afford the Upper East Side.
Cocco, be honest, you couldnt afford the Upper East Side.