Development Watch: 599 4th Avenue
All things considered, 599 4th Avenue isn’t the worst piece of new architecture on Brooklyn’s Park Avenue. The funnily-named “Bisney View” (what the heck does that refer to?) condo looks like it’s nearing completion. While its conversion to rentals seems like a no-brainer, the sign on the side of the building still proclaims that it’s…
All things considered, 599 4th Avenue isn’t the worst piece of new architecture on Brooklyn’s Park Avenue. The funnily-named “Bisney View” (what the heck does that refer to?) condo looks like it’s nearing completion. While its conversion to rentals seems like a no-brainer, the sign on the side of the building still proclaims that it’s for sale. Photos on the development’s placeholder website also suggest the interior is just about done. Prices for units range from $333,000 to $1,980,000. We shall see. GMAP P*Shark DOB
To spend all that money and have a balcony over looking 4th Avenue & Prospect Expressway doesn’t seem to good. Car fumes will fill the air, and not to mention the noise.
I saw the layouts and they are the same old (yawn) boring crap. Living room / Dining room with Kitchen cabinets tucked away in the corner. Is this the cheap way out now that all builders seem to be doing? Instead of making a seperate kitchen, seperate Living room, they just make 1 big room and shove everything in it.
oh and another pet peeve, why can’t any new construction ever have a window in the bathroom????
not a PAA
pretty sure you can’t change an Alt 2 to an Alt 1 on a PAA. You’d have to file a new job.
The Alt 1 was filed in 2004:
seems like they were pretty up front about what they were doing (the job description clearly states that they are adding 4 floors….)
Random Tangent: Is everyone aware of the DOB’s proposal to post a ‘zoning summary’ of new building and alteration type 1 applications and allow the public a 1 month challenge period?
Any thoughts on that?
changed from alt 2 to alt 1. Gotta love PAA’s after the fact.
This is an Alt 1 (big difference from alt 2)…
“Question for architects out there. If you check the DOB BIS site this building is an Alt. type 2 job described as a four story addition.
How is that possible? Has the old walk-up been “absorbed” into the building some how? Just curious…”
Tax purposes. Leave a wee bit of the building and there is no change of use. They used it up and down 16th Street.
Not to say they won’t get slapped with a fine (or a SWO like Sweet 16 did, during construction, for the same reason) at some point.
This is in Greenwood Hts./South Slope and certainly wins the 4th Avenue beauty contest…which is kinda sad.
If I recall (from daily walks by this corner since they started construction) they didn’t completely tear down the existing brick building. That is perhaps why they can say 4-story addition.
If I recall (from daily walks by this corner since they started construction) they didn’t completely tear down the existing brick building. That is perhaps why they can say 4-story addition.
4th Avenue has been zoned for these 12-14 story apt buildings. Instead of retail, the ground floors have been zoned for ‘community service’ uses.
Talking about it and buying it are two totally different things.