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
Maybe the marketers are total geniuses because they have us all talking about it?
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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…
Almost 2 mil for an apt at the Bisney View on 4th Ave in Brooklyn? I’ll take it! Who wouldn’t?
Thanks, tinarina. I was having images of a youth center or something. And, I also wondered how they got away with building so tall. The rest of 17th street is brownstone-type houses and this seemed out of context. The only thing that seemed to save it was having a 4th ave address and being on the corner.
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A community facility could be a nonprofit or a medical office. Basically by setting aside space for this, you can build taller.
it’s in the heart of SloGoGreen (South Slope/Gowanus/Greenwood Heights) the next hipsterest neighborhood centered on 4th avenue and Prospect Expressway.
Mr B we agree sad as it is this building is architecturally a cut above all that new junk construction going on in all of Brooklyn…you know the garbage from Bricolage & Scarano. The designers did well with that roof water tank enclosure unlike that monstrosity atop the Forte…
Will be a rental though before you can figure out what Bisney means!
p.s someone tagges this development with the neigborhood category of greenpoint. Maybe that was to avoid the south slope/greenwood argument?