Development Watch: Facade Phase at 620 10th Street
Brick facing has appeared on the side of 620 10th Street, the former churchyard turned condo. The DOB shows a five-story, 10-unit condo on the rise (it’s really four stories with a penthouse on top, says the developer, New York Properties Fund). A rep says work is moving along nicely, but no word on pricing,…
Brick facing has appeared on the side of 620 10th Street, the former churchyard turned condo. The DOB shows a five-story, 10-unit condo on the rise (it’s really four stories with a penthouse on top, says the developer, New York Properties Fund). A rep says work is moving along nicely, but no word on pricing, and no renderings to release yet. He does say this about the building: “It’s going to go very nicely with the neighborhood. It’ll look nothing like that stuff on Fourth Avenue.”
Slope Church Garden Goes Condo [Brownstoner]
I will miss that scruffy and somnolent little churchyard. I find myself nostalgic for a time when a lot could be just…empty; sort of the urban version of a field lying fallow. Now if you see a vacant lot, you wonder who is sitting in an office somewhere, rubbing their hands together in anticipation of making a killing. I wouldn’t want to return to the NYC of burnt-out wastelands, but…I lived near that corner, and the churchyard was a little breathing space on the streetscape. So long to all of those. [emo sigh]
GMAP link goes to a 10th Ave address in Queens.
Building does not seem out of scale for that corner. The setback is not so visible from the street.
I was just thinking how this builder had escaped all the problems that seem to plague every other builder in the neighborhood…Lots of excavation/foundation related Stop Work Orders. Then I checked your DOB link and found this from 8.08.08
Re:CONSTRUCTION POSSIBLE CAUSING DAMAGE TO 618, PLEASE CHECK 618 DBC
and this from earlier.
CALLER STATES THERE IS ONGOING CONSTRUCTION AT THE NOTED LOC DAMAGING THE NEIGHBORING PROPERTY, THERE ARE NOW CRACKS IN THE WALLS, CEILING, CELLAR,ETC. CALLER STATES PLEASE CONTACT TO COME SEE DAMAGE/DO INSPECTION”
The site has always been pretty clean and well run at least from a passerby’s standpoint. Would like to know that there was at least one guy out there who knew what they were doing.