What's Up With The New Building on Myrtle?
A reader sent us this photo of this new building on Myrtle Avenue at Adelphi. We didn’t know anything about it but share his curiosity. As far as we’re concerned, the design works fine for a commercial avenue like Myrtle though we’re not wild about the break in the rooflines. Nothing to get our knickers…

A reader sent us this photo of this new building on Myrtle Avenue at Adelphi. We didn’t know anything about it but share his curiosity. As far as we’re concerned, the design works fine for a commercial avenue like Myrtle though we’re not wild about the break in the rooflines. Nothing to get our knickers in a twist about anyway. Anyone got the goods? Who built it? What’s it being used for? GMAP
Gustavo opened the new hardware.
adami retired. hard to let him go but it was time!
this looks very similar to a building going up near the dekalb L stop. i wonder if they are related?
Adami was long ago originally in the spot they’re in now. They moved across the street into the larger store in the seventies. The Adami’s are good business people and I imagine they see the threat from the new home depot and have adjusted scale accordingly.
The Adami hardware store is going to be a bank. I was told a BoA. Adami will expand their new location to include the barbershop and the One Last Look store when those leases expire.
Does anyone know why Adami hardware on Myrtle near Waverly moved across the street to a location about the 1/4 of the size they previously had. Their original location is a large one story concrete building which is next to a vacant lot on the corner of Waverly. Possible new construction?
There seems to be quite a few things opening on Myrtle although some haven’t lasted some have.
Wow. I walked right under that the other day and didn’t even notice because I was on the same side of the street. I think that Malymis is right that we might see more of this stuff in the non-landmarked areas. Look at the Salle house in lower Ft. Greene, and the Muniz place in eastern CH. It’d be great to see more of those industrial stretches re-purposed into more architecturally interesting loft-style residences. ‘Stoner – you discussed the upper stretch of Washington Ave as a good candidate in some posts a while back. If this particular development were on the other (north) side of the street, it’d be in the same Wallabout nabe as the Washington Ave stretch you looked at. In addition to my afore-posted musings re what to buy, I’ve also long harbored ideas about those industrial stretches of Lexington, Quincy, etc. Would love to find something for sale along there.
This looks so much better than the typical Fedders construction going up around Brooklyn.
there also seems to be another one going up around the corner that looks similar.
as for the businesses failing, blame the Myrtle Ave BID. they offer very low initial rents then jack em up. no one can afford $4500 a month on myrtle.
Loft condos? Kind of reminds me of the sketches for the evenutal “Switch Building” on Norfolk St on the LES.