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.
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Crawford,
this is the most intelligent post I’ve seen on this site for a while.
Anonymous, care to explain why an eight-floor modernist condo with no parking directly above a subway station is somehow not in context with NYC, but is in context with Houston(!) of all places???
Do you find Amsterdam, Stockholm or Berlin similar to Houston? This building looks exactly like the new stuff in these cities. And cut it with the historic district reasoning. This building isn’t in the landmark district. Cities in Europe have 500-year old buildings located in proximity to modern design and it doesn’t seem to be a problem. Why is it always such a problem with activists in Brooklyn? Relatively young 100 year-old buildings can’t have modern neighbors, but Rome’s 2,000 year-old buildings can??
I’m guessing you would prefer suburban retro-Disney New Urbanist development. Somehow you think suburban Virginia is an appropriate context for South Brooklyn.
Lay off of Brownstoner, I am sure he is just trying to find his groove/balance now that he is full time. Stop being so critical.
Rock on Brownstoner!
If it was for these NIMBY types none of Brownstone Brooklyn would have been landmarked and there would be a lot fewer Brownstones left for people to discuss on this site. So, kudos to the people who do take the time to go to meetings and do care about what happens to the neighborhood. For everyone making smarmy comments, I’d say if you want to live in a city that looks like Huuston, move to Houston.
Crawford: The choice is not between a vacant lot or this project. The choice is between developing the parcel in a manner keeping with the neighborhood, or in throwing up this piece of crap and covering over what is currently a public plaza in front of the subway stop.
Grandpa: This development is neither attractive nor smart, in my opinion. The vacant lot is the perfect place for new residential development. Covering over the plaza is unnecessary and unwarranted.
Why would you want to give away the farm, in this case a public space, for development that would be enormously profitable at 6 floors?
Mr B, is it safe to say you would stop attacking Scarano if he took out an ad like Forte? You promised change when you went full-time but all I see is a superiority complex in judging real estate and bus stop ads. what happened to some editorial content from real experts – you can host the forum but don’t assume the role of expert – I never see anything from the likes of Shahn Anderson anymore telling me the site is becoming less relevant.
I moved to Brooklyn in 2002. Therefore 2002 is the boundary line, beyond which all changes to Brooklyn should be opposed. I had the sense to get in earlier–the rest of you are too late! No more room! Go home!
We need public intervention to keep Brooklyn the way I personally like it!
We need development that is attractive and smart. Require new building to be well designed and attractive, but protesting anything that is new is silly and counterproductive. New York is not a museum. Scale? Its 8 floors high. This is not the Trump Soho, its a modern high density development that should be supported.
How does one go about battling these NIMBYs? Time and time again NIMBYs are in the minority but are the only voice heard by the pandering politicos. I bet you most people in the neighborhood have no problem with this project, but don’t have the time or passion to show up at “community” meetings. We have lives, with work and family and don’t care to try and out-shout the anti-everythings. The project is as-of-right. Who wants a vacant lot over new housing? Not me.