Sterling Place Crash Site Shaping Up Nicely
It looks like the new building on the site of the 1960 airplane crash at Sterling Place and Seventh Avenue is almost done. Unlike the new building across the street, this one is a contextual success (barring any last-minute flourishes!): Perfectly proportioned windows, unobtrusive brick choice, simple lintels. The two wild cards at this point…
It looks like the new building on the site of the 1960 airplane crash at Sterling Place and Seventh Avenue is almost done. Unlike the new building across the street, this one is a contextual success (barring any last-minute flourishes!): Perfectly proportioned windows, unobtrusive brick choice, simple lintels. The two wild cards at this point are how they will finish the bay window sections and whether they choose to add a cornice. This building was designed by the Manhattan-based Danois Architects. Anyone know anything else they’ve done? On a prior thread, a reader mentioned that this building will be condos while the uglier one across the street is a rental. That true? GMAP
Developments Rising at Sterling Place Crash Site [Brownstoner]
Beware of Pinson’s shoddy work and shadier character – know thine developer before you buy and don’t ever judge a book by its cover.
I spoke to Dolly on the 4 unit building, it’s all rented. Also spoke to Abe Pinson on this 38 unit bldg. It is largely going to be 3 and 4 b.r. duplex apts. for large families (check DOB filing.) Corcoran is handling the crap on Park Place and Flatbush. This building is not yet approved for sale but will be handled by Brown Harris on 7th Ave. at Union St.
I live in the Slope and am not displeased at all with the building. Construction however has been amazingly slow. The foundation was untouched for about a year. The architect, Dave Danois, started out 35 years ago with the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corp. where I met him. I think he is trying to fit the building as best he can in the neighborhood but after all has to please the client.
Expect these units to go for $1,000 per s.f. per Abe. I actually might sell my small 825 s.f. 3 b.r. for a unit here but await more details. This building will definitely get a 421a exemption.
This is a brand new building so I think it’s going to qualify for a 421a tax break. J51 I think is only for renovated buildings.
i believe the building is by the same developer as 618-626 dean street in prospect heights. the name is abe pinson. i live in the dean street building……still awtg our J51. hope this building has better luck than we have had.
I lived on this block for ten years. It’s not a landmark block, hence the condos midway down the block on the south side. Not very “contextual” but better than the vacant lot from the 80s. We have bigger fights than this to fight. These buildings will do. Could be much much worse.
This is a landmark block, I believe.
This building looks really nice to me. I guess it would be better to build taller windows, but in a regular brownstone there really isn’t as much light as there would be with wider windows. So I think it’s smart to let in more light. I think historically accurate is a funny concept because nothing about the way we live today in actual old houses is historicallly accurate. They used to have riotous colors everywhere and very dimly lit interiors and heavy, heavy furniture. I think it would be funny to have to live like you are the curator of a museum inside your own house, why do you people insist that new construction adheres to curatorial standards on non-landmark blocks? And of course our fantasy version of how things ought to be accurate also is related in NYC to everybody being familiar with the WPA photos which were taken within 10 years of the depression, which was after a very affluent time period. So certainly it’s more of a disneyland kind of time capsule for photos I think because people then didn’t have any money to do anything to their houses exteriors and that’s what we remember about our houses to be historically accurate. But if they did they would have most certainly done a lot of different things to them I think. Really what is a brownstone now besides a house made out of concrete?
The window openings are nearly square on the long facade! This is not historically accurate. Battery Park City’s design guidelines allow this same offense: the ganging of individual windows that are each vertical in aspect ratio into groups that are square or horizontal. You’ll find it in the modern brick buildings, but not the turn-of-the-century types that this building seeks to emulate.
how many of you critics are actually FROM brooklyn? i love the opinions, but i suspect you are all transplants. my family grew up on park place and lived there on the day of the plane crash. we all think the new development looks fine and it’s nice to see something getting built.