Slope Church Garden Goes Condo
A tipster writes in to say that “a beautiful garden with several mature trees” has been cleared on 8th Avenue and 10th Street to make way for a new residential development. And she’s right: Slope-based developer New York Property Fund recently purchased the site from the neighboring Church Of Gethsemane and is about to begin…
A tipster writes in to say that “a beautiful garden with several mature trees” has been cleared on 8th Avenue and 10th Street to make way for a new residential development. And she’s right: Slope-based developer New York Property Fund recently purchased the site from the neighboring Church Of Gethsemane and is about to begin construction on a 10-unit condo that includes three townhouses, according to NYPF partner John O’Reilly. O’Reilly said the luxury condos are going to range in size from around 1,300 to 1,800 square feet, while the townhouses are going to top out at 2,300 feet. A spokesperson for the church says they sold the property in order to raise funds. “We sold it because we’re a poor congregation, but we’re also right next door, so of course we’re hoping for the best,” she said. O’Reilly said that although renderings for the development haven’t been finalized, the design will be in keeping with the area’s overall aesthetic. “We’re local, and we have respect for the street,” he said. GMAP P*Shark DOB
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No, what’s asinine is using public money to conserve tremendously expensive land so that a neighborhood of $2M brownstones can be protected from change.
I would much rather the government spent money building parks and playgrounds in underserved poor neighborhoods.
Last I heard, private property was just that and they can plant and cut down any trees they want regardless of condition. I wasn’t aware any apporval is necessary let alone yours. If one of the tree’s were to fall on your car or your house, you would be the first one to sue for someone not maintaining them. Build condos to the sky and give the church all the breaks. You want trees, move to New Jersey. Further would be better.
Man, that prisoner comment was a low blow. As for the land, it’s being returned to the tax rolls.
According to the Parks Dept. Prospect Park isn’t in NYC’s top ten in terms of acreage. Nor does the Trust for Public Land list Prospect in it’s list of the 100 largest urban parks. To suggest that the public purchase of land for conservation is an assinine use of tax dollars is a stretch.
Did you mean affordable housing?
12:46 – nice straw-man argument!
That the city needs more parks and open space is not the debate (it does) but it also needs more housing and buying private property (at market prices) on a major avenue – 1 block from one of the largest urban parks in the country to make a “community garden” would be an asinine use of taxpayer dollars.
I agree with 11:41. The City should ban any green space within a reasonable distance of any park. Hell, we need less green spaces not more!!! In fact, let’s encourage our City officials to auction off any parks or play grounds deemed too close to a park, the land can then be developed and give a much needed boost to our poor, overly taxed developers. School yards too,auction those bad boys off. And hell, the parks are too big anyway, why not whittle them down to a more reasonable size.
Let’s just hope the “church” pays its fair share of taxes on the sale, afterall, the sale of land doesn’t exactly fall into a non-profit activity.
Why not knock down the church too? People need housing, not fairy tales about some omnipotent Sky Daddy.