Tower To Go Up Next Door to BAM?
According to Brooklyn Papers, The Clarett Group, which has developed four luxury residential towers in Manhattan, has gobbled up three lots next door to the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Located at the corner of Fulton and Ashland Place, the properties fall under C6-4 zoning, which would enable the developer to build a 20-story hotel or…
According to Brooklyn Papers, The Clarett Group, which has developed four luxury residential towers in Manhattan, has gobbled up three lots next door to the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Located at the corner of Fulton and Ashland Place, the properties fall under C6-4 zoning, which would enable the developer to build a 20-story hotel or office tower as of right and possibly as many as 30 stories of residential. No permits have been filed, but neighbors believe the existing buildings will be demolished.
Hotel Harvey [Brooklyn Papers] GMAP
I agree, poor people need a place to live too, but not in a prime residential neighborhood, sorry. There is no public policy that requires drug and crime ridden projects be located in nice neighborhoods.
Re: Anon 4:59’s comments, I believe moving housing projects to undesirable neighborhoods is called “ghettoization”–in the most literal sense! Are you suggesting that people who live in public housing don’t also deserve to live in “nice” neighborhoods? That they shouldn’t live among the rest of us “decent” folk? That we should relocate housing projects and uproot entire communities every decade or so to suit gentrification patterns?
I’m kinda flabbergasted at the insensitivity of your comments. We’re not just talking about architectural structures here–we’re talking about the people and the communities who inhabit them.
I admit to loving the Fulton Mall Macy’s!! If you go on a Sunday morning there is hardly anyone there and it’s like you’re the only shopper in the store. Yes- it is in deserate need of a reno… but Herald Square is insanely crowded, I hate going there!
I do agree Fulton Mall is not at ALL aesthetically pleasing AND its very littered – in fact the corner of Joralemon/Fulton/Boerum Place is always SO littered by the end of the day. WTF is wrong with people, that they can’t place their fast food conainers in a trash can 2 feet away?!?
uhhhm, poor people need a place to live too.
I agree with anon 4:59. Why there? And the projects are being RENOVATED??? You gotta be kidding me.
projects aren’t getting torn down. they are currently under renovation and being updated. because of this some residents were temporarily re-located, that’s why the buildings are not at full capacity.
I’m not sure what the poster meant when he said a “public policy disaster”, but one thing that is sad is that they put up public housing in such central prime areas. I suppose the areas were not “prime” when they were built, but what poor planning from a long term perspective. It might sound controversial, but the public housing should be moved to less expensive parcels of real estate away from central locations which would otherwise become nice neighborhoods.
I’d bet that hundreds of thousands of current and former NYC wouldn’t call the housing projects
a ‘public policy disaster’.
No matter what negatice effects, they have provided decent shelter, a real home, for generations in this city who probably would not have had a decent place to live otherwise. Although I have never lived in one, plenty of hardworking decent taxpaying people I have known throughout my life have – and was a blessing compared to available alternatives.
That wonderful capitalist ‘marketplace’ has never been able to provide affordable decent housing for a large segment of population – (and I don’t just mean just in this expensive city) – and it never will be able to.
Prices low??? Give me a break?
Designer shoes for $150 bucks and brand name hip hop gear? That stuff is waaay more expensive than the Gap. Those jerseys cost over a hundred bucks and the Air Jordans, etc, are outrageously priced. The stores in the mall are, for the most part, NOT cheap, outside of the conway types and the like….