Vinegar Hill Not Forgotten Anymore
Kevin from Forgotten NY used the sunny weather last weekend to update his page on Vinegar Hill. “Some of the DUMBO building boom is leaching over to Vinegar Hill,” he notes, “and some of the results aren’t pretty.” Of particular note on the negative side is a new Fedders building going up on Hudson Avenue…
Kevin from Forgotten NY used the sunny weather last weekend to update his page on Vinegar Hill. “Some of the DUMBO building boom is leaching over to Vinegar Hill,” he notes, “and some of the results aren’t pretty.” Of particular note on the negative side is a new Fedders building going up on Hudson Avenue near the Farragut Houses. On the positive, there are still a number of brick row houses that haven’t given up the ghost and some charming old store-front windows that are just calling out for a tea house or book store.
Vinegar Hill [Forgotten NY]
sux that the power plant is right there and all the farragut shootings
Most of Vinegar Hill is landmarked.
I’ve heard that the people who live in Vinegar Hill don’t want to be ‘put on the map’. It is an enclave and that’s what the residents love about it. In this era of out-of-control ‘development’ and growth in Brooklyn, however, I don’t see how it can avoid the Corcoranization/Fedderization that seems to be infecting all of our other neighborhoods.
The NYT piece that ran last year said one of those streets that ran where the Farrugut houses now stands was called ‘Hell’s Half Acre’ when it was full of brothels, saloons, and navy yard workers. Really conjurs up an image of old NY.
If somebody would open a very interesting restaurant or bar, something special, something worth a trip (it is not so far to F train) it could be a turning point for VH. VH has this magical quality that right, iconic place could exploit. It could be a way of putting VH on the map. It could be like a Galapagos back in the day in Williamsburg for example. But on another hand it would lead to inevitable change of the area. I am not sure i would want that.
but I think VH has potential to be not residential but next hang out place.
Vinegar Hill is beautiful, but I have trouble thinking of it as an “individual” neighborhood. More like an eclave, along the lines of Albemarle and Kenmare Terrace in Flatbush. It’s not much bigger.