Development Watch: 357 Dean Street
And the steamroller called progress rolls on. A year ago, a beautiful, albeit rundown, woodframe house stood at 357 Dean Street; now the skeleton of a new 6-unit residential building juts out beyond the facade line of the neighboring 19th-century house. The architect, Sears Tambasco, has managed to squeeze 8,700 square feet of floor area…
And the steamroller called progress rolls on. A year ago, a beautiful, albeit rundown, woodframe house stood at 357 Dean Street; now the skeleton of a new 6-unit residential building juts out beyond the facade line of the neighboring 19th-century house. The architect, Sears Tambasco, has managed to squeeze 8,700 square feet of floor area onto the 25-by-100-foot lot.
House of the Day: 357 Dean Street [Brownstoner] GMAP P*Shark DOB
I just saw this building complete and was told that they’re up for a Gold LEED Certification. Building looks great. A sign is up says http://www.greenondean.com. Looks awesome.
8:16pm
I own property on the block and I am pleased with the value this lends the block and their property. Do you own anything??Or is your eyesores caused by sour grapes.
I doubt there WERE any lot-line windows… fire code requirements make them very expensive to install in this kind of configuration. It would suck to suddenly have that big building suddenly crowding your home, but on the other hand, is having a crumbling & vacant rat-hole next door preferable?
“are pleased with the value this lends the block and their property.”
Only if they are blind. What an eyesore.
Guest 4:02pm is right – I went to see this property when they were asking a million for it. My girlfriend walked in and walked right back out for fear of injury and overall smell. There were holes in the floor, and everything was rotting. The biggest problem though was a tree that had gone unchecked between this property and the one next door to the right which had damaged the foundation and structure along the side of the house. Quaint as it might have appeared from the sidewalk, it was an absolute tear-down disaster inside with virtually no detail of any sort. So, without approving the ridiculous thing going up in its place, it absolutely had to come down before anything could be done with the property.
That building was a DUMP. I used to live next door and they raised chickens in the back “yard.” Although it was really more of a mud pit. There was NOTHING beautiful about that building. Good riddance! From what I hear the neighbors have not lost any light in the back and are pleased with the value this lends the block and their property.
Lot line windows = your wall goes right up to the property’s edge. If you have windows in that wall, and new construction on the adjacent property also builds right up to the edge of the property line, you got no more windows. Sucks. You have no recourse. This happens a lot when a property that was single story switches to multiple story next door to you.
Thank you 4:14 for setting the idiots straight. They see through their rose colored glasses or are still have flashbacks from the 60’s. Damn that was good acid back then, wasn’t it? Besides your description of this wood frame house, they absolutely no right to mandate shit. Money talks and bullhist walks. Property is still private around here, last I checked we are still a capatlist society. Don’t like that, move to Iran or Cuba or something where they still have pipe dreams of a collective good. Don’t forget your Burqa.
“a beautiful, albeit rundown, woodframe house”
You are a moron!!
It was a beet up no back wall bad foundation SRO old crack house and the roof was falling in.
I live on the block and was in it before it came down.
It leaned 12â€to the left, it’s life was over. Thinking this is a “beautiful, albeit rundown, wood-frame house†makes you a moron.