Wrapping Things Up at 380 Baltic Street
As we were heading down Wyckoff Street on Monday, we looked up and noticed that the last window was in the process of being installed at 380 Baltic Street, the controversial 11-story tower in Boerum Hill. At the time, it was the scale of the project that most worried people. In retrospect, perhaps the focus…
As we were heading down Wyckoff Street on Monday, we looked up and noticed that the last window was in the process of being installed at 380 Baltic Street, the controversial 11-story tower in Boerum Hill. At the time, it was the scale of the project that most worried people. In retrospect, perhaps the focus should have been the quality of design. Not liking this one bit.
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it kind of matches the Gowanus Houses. So I guess the architect was trying to contextualize the space.
“Can someone please remind exactly what is the purpose of any balcony in a new Brooklyn building?”
For smoking, because GOD-FORBID I should smoke in my apartment and lower the property value of the entire building because my cigarette smoke seeps into the faintest of air gaps in our shared wall.
1:21, are you kidding me? Living right in the middle of all these towers going up on Atlantic, I can tell you that there are DEFINITELY some winners and losers in terms of design. This one is a big time loser. Sure it’s subjective, but I don’t see how anyone can look at that thing and say it looks good.
Can someone please remind exactly what is the purpose of any balcony in a new Brooklyn building? I never ever see anyone used by anyone for anything other than storage or a plant. Why don’t developers put the few dollars saved in to something else more useful?
These balconies to not extend beyond footprint of building…because the footprint of first couple of floors (non-residential) is much larger.
It isn’t simply because it’s new, 1:02. It’s a crap developer that’s all. Much of Brooklyn isn’t yet attracting the more serious, high-end real estate developers who invest real money in a building and hire bigger architects. With only a few exceptions like the Meier building and that other tall glass building going up on the other side of the park, and some buildings in DUMBO and Williamsburg. It seems there has to be a big geographical landmark like the park or the East River to get those fancier buildings.
I keep wondering what if instead of always resisting all development, neighborhoods actively courted the better developers and waged campaigned to get them to build something super nice in their neighborhood. Push out the shlocky developers by increasing the bigger developers’ awareness of the place.
“Not liking this one bit.” Has there ever been a new design you guys have liked? I mean come on, let’s be real here. The days of shipping huge slabs of stone down the Erie canal to Brooklyn in order to build what we now consider our picturesque brownstone neighborhoods are long over. What do you expect? Developers are using the building materials most readily available to them at a cost that provides them with the largest possible profit margin. Do you believe that was any different when they built the hundreds of pre-war apartment buildings around Brooklyn? I grew up in one on Kings Highway. It looks like every other apartment building built during the period. I bet there were a bunch of people like you guys who went off on them back then calling them ugly, cheap, carbon copies. But now you would shell out close to a million dollars for a two bedroom in one if it’s in the right neighborhood. I’m starting to get sick of the negativity here. Have you guys taken a look at the apartment stock that’s available in the neighborhood? It’s nearly non-existant. Yet more and more people move into our area every month. What about those of us who want to end our days of being renters and become vested in the neighborhood by becoming owners? We need choices. We need options. Thank god for the condo glut in Brooklyn right now. It’s the only thing keeping prices down. Can you imagine how how prices would be if there weren’t so many avaiable new apartments on the market? Suddenly, Brooklyn Heights is relatively affordable. Any life-long Brooklynite like myself never thought they’d be saying that some day.
This building has balconies. To no one’s surprise, critics here say they’re too small. If it didn’t have balconies at all, you’d all say “Where are the balconies?” How many of your dilapidated, illegally convereted, mice infested brownstone apartments with sagging floors, leaky pipes and cracks in the plaster have balconies? And you mean to tell me you can tell from that one small picture how big the windows are in relation to ceiling height of the interiors? Give me a break. How about reserving judgement until you can actually get inside one of these apartments and take a look around.
Yes. Shocking. Crap design on a new building in Brooklyn.
Balconies that extend beyond the footprint of a building need to be banned in the city.