Scarano-on-Fulton Finally Finishing Up
After going into suspended animation for the better part of 2007 (due, we can only guess, to architect Robert Scarano’s problems with the DOB), the eight-unit trapezoidal residential building at 888 Fulton Street in Clinton Hill appears to be nearing completion. Anyone have any idea whether this will be condos or rentals? Our bet would…
After going into suspended animation for the better part of 2007 (due, we can only guess, to architect Robert Scarano’s problems with the DOB), the eight-unit trapezoidal residential building at 888 Fulton Street in Clinton Hill appears to be nearing completion. Anyone have any idea whether this will be condos or rentals? Our bet would be on the latter.
Development Watch: 888 Fulton Street [Brownstoner] GMAP DOB
I think this place is charming. It adds a certain “lift” to the block.
But in all seriousness… the ceilings must be really high in that place, eh? The 3-story place next door only goes up the the 2nd floor of the snazzy new building.
Again, I’ll use my favorite 2 word descriptor:
“sh*t sandwich”
(liverwurst, by the color of it)
Way to keep raising the bar in “excellence in architecture,” Bob.
(wait, that has become an oxymoronic statement, correct?
I agree with MrMinerva. There are far worse examples of ugly in Brooklyn. Honestly, I don’t even think this building is that bad except for the fact that it’s out of scale with the surrounding buildings…
You people really actually know absolutely nothing about buildings in New York? Amazing. Look at the picture. Empty lot next to said Scarano snooze-job. Imagine this scenario: there are windows where you people think there should be. You buy an apartment in the building. A year from now, someone builds a building on the empty lot, right up to the lot-line, same height as your building, bricking over your windows, as they would have every right to do. You proceed to sue the developer, the architect, and the real-estate agent for false advertising or somesuch nonsense, because you are in idiot and bought an apartment with lot-line windows that could be built over by a neighboring building as-of-right. Ergo, only an idiot would think that there should be windows there.
And the building is not ugly, per se. It is just another boring building by a talentless hack who got caught exploiting a loophole in an illegal fashion, bordering (?) on fraud that screwed his clients and end-buyers. Save the honorific of ‘ugly’ for much more deserving Fedderiffic pieces of s—, like it’s darling friend down Fulton at 1067. Now THAT is ugly.
Missile silo, I like that.
I don’t know if the apartments go the length of the building. If they do, why would anyone put a tiny balcony in the front? I would use on in the back, with some privacy and quiet. Never would use the one in the front.
Meh.
What a hideous eyesore. just terrible proportions; looks like a converted missile silo.
RE: the windows. Can anyone explain why someone would put up a modern building with very few or no windows on the side, especially when there is no other building close to that side? I don’t understand it. Is there some building code that limits windows in certain situations?
Hey, it’s suburbandude, the guy who always explains how “up there” is better than Brooklyn and yet inexplicably spends lots of time on Brownstoner.
You know dude, I can send you some listings for places in the Slope. You could put your Westchester house on the market today and be back where you actually want to be in just a few months. We won’t judge you.
Absolutely ghastly. Where are the windows?
One thing we do have in my suburban community that NYC is sorely lacking – an architecuture review board. This would not have gotten to first base.