Development Watch: 111 Kent Avenue
Now that much of the facade and some of the windows are complete, you can get a pretty good sense of how 111 Kent Avenue is going to end up looking and the result ain’t that pretty. The 62-unit development is a pretty classic example of how simpler is usually better. These non-right-angled windows look…
Now that much of the facade and some of the windows are complete, you can get a pretty good sense of how 111 Kent Avenue is going to end up looking and the result ain’t that pretty. The 62-unit development is a pretty classic example of how simpler is usually better. These non-right-angled windows look forced and silly; the design is not helped by the choice of brick, which looks like it belongs somewhere on the border of Bed Stuy and Bushwick. Too bad, too, given the building’s striking views over East River State Park and Manhattan. As for how sales are going, it’s anybody’s guess: No sales are recorded on StreetEasy and the Elliman site shows nine units available.
Development Watch: 111 Kent Avenue (June ’08) [Brownstoner] GMAP
Development Watch: 111 Kent Avenue (March ’08) [Brownstoner] P*Shark
Development Watch: 111 Kent Avenue (July ’07) [Brownstoner] DOB
haha we’ve had this convo tons of times. i’m starting to think your asshole radar is broken ;), although huckleberry is exceptionally crappy lately.
To summarize:
I always leave Williamsburg feeling like I just spent an entire day watching an America’s Next Top Model marathon.
And not in a good way.
lol i think dipster might be right.
*r*
“he hates the neighborhood, i think he associates it with an ex lover.”
I only wish it were that simple. It’s not about disliking the neighborhood as much as it is disliking almost every person I’ve ever met who lives there. I’ve given it 100’s of chances, and every time the hood lets me down. Just not my kinda people. I like people who are curious about the world, not those who are so narrowly focused that they would say…and I quote from someone I met in Huckleberry Bar there 2 weeks ago “isn’t Carroll Gardens in Queens?”
She was also totally unaware of what’s going on in the world right now with regard to the economic situation.
Girls (and guys) like this I’ve met there are the norm. Not the exception, sadly.
Guess I’m going to the WRONG places.
The long blocks in Williamsburg are shorter then those in manhattan – i used to live on the UES, so to compare the walk from kent to bedford to the walk from york to lexington is inaccurate.
If you don’t believe me, type in the walking directions on google maps. 5 minutes exactly.
I’d love to see these for 200k – but once again it’s 2006 pricing thinking Kent avenue is going to turn into some bustling street – which it wont.
Ok, fine the views.
I’m not a views person, but I can see how some are.
Nevermind then. They are worth 3 million each in that case.
😉
“I don’t see what the problem is 11217”
he hates the neighborhood, i think he associates it with an ex lover.
Bedford to Berry to Wythe to Kent are 3 LONG blocks. Like Manhattan Avenue blocks. Except uglier.
There’s a reason why apartments on York Avenue on the Upper East Side are less expensive than those 3 blocks farther west, near 1st Avenue.
It’s not about the neighborhood, dh. These would be great for 200K.
The bedford stop is three blocks away. Granted, three long blocks but still… And the blocks of N 7th out to Kent Ave are perfectly nice residential blocks. I don’t see what the problem is 11217