Carroll Gardens "Bastardization" Hits Market
When we wrote about 45 3rd Place last Spring as it was still under construction, we had this to say: “The addition to this house has to be one of the greatest bastardizations of a beautiful old brownstone we’ve ever seen.” (Click on the link below to see the photo from last April.) While some…
When we wrote about 45 3rd Place last Spring as it was still under construction, we had this to say: “The addition to this house has to be one of the greatest bastardizations of a beautiful old brownstone we’ve ever seen.” (Click on the link below to see the photo from last April.) While some readers leapt to its defense, others chimed in with such comments as “jaw-droppingly horrendous” and “cancerous growth”. Now the sucker is on the market. It appears to have been divided into two units, both two floors and approximately 2,000 square feet. They share the parking garage that sits were the garden once was. The lower unit is asking $1.45 million and interested parties as well as architectural critics can check it out at the open house on Sunday from 12 to 2 o’clock.
45 Third Place [Landmark Properties] GMAP
CG Atrocity: There Goes the Neighborhood [Brownstoner]
Passed by the place on my way home from a party in Red Hook tonight. Really, banal at greatest provocation. The addition seemed terribly typical eurotrash pagoda a la bedford ave, but if it had actually been a valid modernist addition (even a swallowing whole) of an historic building (see 23 beekman place), I do doubt it would have brought about any less cries of corruption.
Mr. Imby: f*cks?
The real estate agent (and her agency) should be shamed into dropping this listing.
I’m really tired of those useless cantilevered porches on the rear facade. Also the roof top exit for the staircase, visible from the street, completely f*cks up the skyline of the new addition. It reminds me of something you see on tenement buildings. Mr. Remy….Tis?
As underwhelming as this whole affair is, I would much rather see something like it than a vinyl-sided attempt to reproduce an older style. New methods of building are new methods of building, and old ones are old ones. Unlike the building in question, each has the potential to be excellent, and each, given that they are excellent, have their place in the urban context. Many older structures certainly warrant an extremely guarded preservation, but in many cases, especially in America, we are unable to recognize which have that value and which don’t. In your quest for authenticity we would inevitably arrive back in Disneyland with such inane, indiscriminate casts of the preservationist’s net. Tis a condition of such a young nation to overvalue the old. Webmaster: do venture across the pond, and behold the contrasts of old (hundreds of years older than Brooklyn’s brownstones) and new architecture existing in harmony.
uh…don’t you think murder is a little harsh over an aesthetic disagreement?
As underwhelming as this whole affair is, I would much rather see something like it than a vinyl-sided attempt to reproduce an older style. New methods of building are new methods of building, and old ones are old ones. Unlike the building in question, each has the potential to be excellent, and each, given that they are excellent, have their place in the urban context. Many older structures certainly warrant an extremely guarded preservation, but in many cases, especially in America, we are unable to recognize which have that value and which don’t. In your quest for authenticity we would inevitably arrive back in Disneyland with such inane, indiscriminate casts of the preservationist’s net. Tis a condition of such a young nation to overvalue the old. Webmaster: do venture across the pond, and behold the contrasts of old (hundreds of years older than Brooklyn’s brownstones) and new architecture existing in harmony.
like Scarano, the developer should be shot.
I’m another neighbor, and I agree that it’s an interesting idea, but very poorly executed. Probably the reason they’re still using a rendering is that the building is nowhere near finished, at least from the outside — the bare cinderblocks are still exposed, several broken windows, overgrown yard, the garages are in severe disrepair. But more than that, the place just looks cheap. I think this is another situation of a Fedders-quality reno asking top-quality prices. I’d be suprised if they get the prices they’re asking for on these units.
There were 3 garages; they tore one down to extend the ground floor out. Horrible, ugly piece of crap conversion, but that house wasn’t huge before and it’s a nice corner and, of course, the people inside won’t have to see it.