The Answer to What's Happening at 342 Smith
The last post of the day yesterday on Curbed included a reader question about what was happening on the corner of Smith and 1st Place. In the comments, one reader provided a link to the site of Hannah Senesh, a progressive Jewish day school that is building a new facility on the site designed by…
The last post of the day yesterday on Curbed included a reader question about what was happening on the corner of Smith and 1st Place. In the comments, one reader provided a link to the site of Hannah Senesh, a progressive Jewish day school that is building a new facility on the site designed by Horowitz Architects. The school has its own little reno blog going with some sweet action photos of the demolition. What do people think of the design and how it will fit into the landscape? GMAP M*LOCAL
342 Smith Update [Hannah Sennesh]
Rumbling and Bumblings [Curbed]
you forgot good looking as well.
And he is charming too.
As a long-time local, the school doesn’t bother me. Also, the students at PS 58 are better behaved than some attending other nearby schools…I don’t foresee any rumbles. Don’t know about the noise issue first hand, but they’ll certainly feel the vibrations at the very least.
Just wait for the rumbles after school!
Should be fun to walk through on the way home…
Great posts, btw.
One question lingers, what is going to happen to the little concrete parking area on 1st Place (right hand side of the image)? Will it be a garden or be used as parking?
Obvs would prefer a garden, but parking space is always a big issue, especially right across the street from a school.
Wonder how loud it is in there when the trains come and go?
The new building will definitely be an improvement. Unfortunately, some of the long-time locals aren’t too pleased with the school (which I keep hearing referred to as a “yeshiva school” despite the fact it isn’t). Some PS 58 parents believed that property was supposed to become a much-needed middle school for District 15, and couldn’t understand how it was given to a private school. But my understanding is that the Board of Ed. never actually owned the property, but just leased it, so it wasn’t theirs to build on.
Isn’t Lawrence Horowitz the father of B-Boy Adam Horowitz? I think that it is very important to get to the bottom of that! Because what is Brownstoner about if not about mining any and all celebrity connections to B’klyn? Oh yeah, and what is the emoticon for sarcasm?
I truly hope Smith St. project is a figment of someone’s imagination – just like the “Smith St.” subway station that is mentioned on the Scarano website.
I think will be improvement and certainly no worse than what exits.
The Scarano architects site lists a project for across the street over the subway station – (multifam projects -1st column -14th row down)-
with completion date of 2005.
Anyone know if thats been completely scrapped or still possibility?
I live two blocks away from the construction site. From what I can see so far, the building won’t be much higher than P.S. 58 which is just across the street (where I attended kindergartin in 1958). The drawings above depict a low-rise institutional building (with no Fedders cutouts, thank heaven), which looks to be much more attractive than the brick-box, practically windowless Bd of Ed building that was there, so I think the building will fit into its environs fairly well.