Bracing For The Worst on South Portland Avenue
South Portland Avenue is getting a new addition. At 97 South Portland, between Lafayette and Fulton, a five-story residential building was just approved on the site of a former garden center. (This is not the same block of South Portland that won the best block award from TimeOutNY a couple of years ago.) Given that…
South Portland Avenue is getting a new addition. At 97 South Portland, between Lafayette and Fulton, a five-story residential building was just approved on the site of a former garden center. (This is not the same block of South Portland that won the best block award from TimeOutNY a couple of years ago.) Given that the total height of the structure is 48 feet, don’t expect the kind of ceiling heights typically found in this part of town. (This site falls outside of the Fort Greene Historic District. Unfortunately.) In fact, based upon this architect’s other projects, it doesn’t seem like you should expect much at all. Let’s hope our pessimism is misplaced. GMAP P*Shark DOB
LMAO
“12:10 guest, nope. Your post is too boring for me to respond really”
– Biff
Really.
WonTon: Can Biff pay for me or do you think he is too stupid to have a real job that can pay the bill?
I took a look at Gardel’s plans. They dont look too bad. Unfortunately they dont show the facade of the building. I just hope Dooley attempted to blend it in with Brooklyn’s unique architecture.
2:23: These numbnuts are too busy posting here all day to do anything constructive. YOu are going to have to look elsewhere.
“and a fascinating comment by you too 11:26”
Thanks, Dave. Your posts are always so helpful.
You guys should stop complaining, get together, and find a good, inexpensive architect for Mr. Gardel. If he’s really a nice guy who cares about the neighborhood, he’ll appreciate the favor.
Gardell is indeed a righteous bloke, but all the same, I can’t help but cringe at the examples of the arhcitect’s previous work. Makes me want to chunder. His lack of imagination is horrific, and his aesthetic eye was obviously either poked out in in the middle of architecture school (because there’s no other excuse for designing such awful-looking buildings) or he didn’t have the fortune to be born with one in the first place. With so many extraordinary examples of beautiful arhitecture in FG/CH/and Bed-Stuy, there’s simply no excuses if a heinous monster is built here. Hell, copy a couple of the gems on Clinton Ave if you can’t come up with something by yourself, Mr. Architect. Either that or offer your services to some manical head of State trying to promote a Cult of Personality via statues, museums dedicated to his greatness, and of course, his mausoleum. But stay the hell away from Fort Greene. I beg you.
Legend has it that on completion of St. Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow, Tsar Ivan the Terrible ordered the architect, Postnik Yakovlev, to be blinded to prevent him from ever creating anything to rival its beauty again. (He did in fact go on to build another cathedral in Vladimir despite his ocular impediment, so he was either an amazing bloke or the legend is complete crap.) While I am shocked and horrified at such a display of savagery, I wouldn’t mind appropriating such a punishment on all the asshats that design and then inflict eyesores on our beloved nabes. May the fleas of a thousand Taliban camels infest these architects’ nether regions.
I agree Gardel had a nice little shop and is a cool dude. He probably is hiring the architect because it is cheap, but aren’t there any people out there volunteering to design and build him a structure for a good deal so we can all be happy? I heard he was going to reopen his shop on the first floor of the building.