Broken Angel Up For Sale
It’s a sad day in Mudville: Shahn and Arthur are having to give up on their dream of converting the Broken Angel into a bunch of eclectically designed condos. A few days ago, they put the 13,000-square-foot property up for sale with no asking price. Interested parties can contact Shahn at 917-627-6454. Given that the…
It’s a sad day in Mudville: Shahn and Arthur are having to give up on their dream of converting the Broken Angel into a bunch of eclectically designed condos. A few days ago, they put the 13,000-square-foot property up for sale with no asking price. Interested parties can contact Shahn at 917-627-6454. Given that the new NYT listings site currently returns zero responses to a Clinton Hill search, we’re unable to come up with the listing right now!
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Shahn,
If you’re reading this, I would set a reasonable price and sell ASAP.
Not publicly listing a price is also a bad idea because lots of folks, myself included, just assume it’s too high and won’t even bother to call you to find it out.
MMHTPH….couldn’t agree with you more on that last point. Why is it so difficult to achieve that???
bxgirl- I win the contest of who hurt arthur less. Agreed, this is bad news for him, but really his fate was sealed quite a while ago on this. As I’ve said in previous posts – it’s easy to make art with no retrictions. The true artists are people who can work within the confines of completely reasonable public safety regulations and still come up with a unique and artistic outcome. Like DIBS – given the choice between and unique building that could one day topple and fall on innocent bystanders and boring fedders building that is structurally sound, I’ll take the fedder building every time. Hopefully though, we all have a third option – buildings that adhere to public safety regulations but still have artistic merit.
wow, What. Here I almost thought you had a heart when you said: “but that Asshat Shahn got the best of that old man and his son. Now it’s all FUBAR and Arthur my lose his house and you see why I got off, unbelievable!”
well, I did say I was delusional. If we were all always deserving severe punishment for every financial mistake we ever made, we’d all be in jails, and no one on the outside.
Arthur went with his art- I always appreciate people who live their art. It’s isn’t always convenient, it isn’t always safe. Sometimes it isn’t pretty- but we need more people like Arthur. They inspire, they anger, they make us think or rant, they add interest, they make art. There’s a long list of truly great artists who lived destitute- the result of bad financial decisions, probably. But they left behind great art. I’m not saying Broken Angel was the Sistine Chapel by any means, but it had character, and if you can appreciate it, magic.
Once again, why did the project fail?
Financing should have been locked in two years ago — well before the crash.
Selling a vacant shell in this market is gonna be tough.
If somebody offers two million, I’d take it.
A year ago, they might have gotten four million.
It would be a perfect spot for a funky modern art museum . . .
And like FSRQ and I have been saying all along (if I can speak for you on this one FSRQ) – we join together in admiring the gumption that Shahn displayed in taking on a project that most would’ve thought was destined to fail. If Shahn had gone into this with the attitude of ” You know what, this is going to be really difficult and goes against all existing understainding of how real estate works, but it’s ab beautiful unique building and I really think someone should at least take a shot at making this work” then I would have no issue with him. But that was not his attitude. Seriously – go back and read his arrogant condescending comments on this and other posts. Maybe you’ll understand why fsrq and I feel so vindicated.
P…You don’t “dare to try something different” and “attempt to lead by example” with the construction of a dangerous structure that’s in violation of every building code imaginable. The majority of the building code is there for people’s safety.
Go back and look at the original photos…
http://bstoner.wpengine.com/brownstoner/archives/2007/04/broken_angel_re.php
fsrq –
I never said I thought developers or investors were greedy or evil, or that architects and engineers are dumb or not interested in art. I said that the sad current economic reality and the way people view what are viable options for development in this city generally are disappointing. And this news regarding Broken Angel is especially sad and does not bode well for the future of building in New York, and especially Brooklyn, since this was one of those few stand-out projects that dared to try something different. We need more people who attempt to lead by example.
” It was certainly an act of defiance.(I thought you especially would appreciate that, What!)”
It was a hunk of junk on top to a building, nothing more, nothing less.
“I really hope he doesn’t lose the house. That would be criminal.”
It would be justice because Arthur and Shahn was two delusional Asshats and should be punished like everyone else who make a bad financial decision.
The What
Someday this war is gonna end…