Horror Show Friday
From Bed Stuy (left) to PLG (middle) to Bushwick (right), the building boom’s bottom-of-the-barrel are looking like particularly tough sells now. Who’s going to buy one of these places now? Hard to imagine. $549000 2 fm, Short Sale [Craigslist] $729000 / 7br Parkside Ave [Craigslist] $729000 / 8br PRIME Bushwick [Craigslist]
From Bed Stuy (left) to PLG (middle) to Bushwick (right), the building boom’s bottom-of-the-barrel are looking like particularly tough sells now. Who’s going to buy one of these places now? Hard to imagine.
$549000 2 fm, Short Sale [Craigslist]
$729000 / 7br Parkside Ave [Craigslist]
$729000 / 8br PRIME Bushwick [Craigslist]
BTW I think the electric utility meters are required to be on the front of the property on new construction. When the hell this City is going to move into remote meter reading like they now have throughout most of China is a good question.
It doesn’t have to “fail” fsrq…it will nickel and dime the owner to death with cracks here and there, this falling off of that, etc, etc, etc. You can’t be serious if you think these POSs are built to the same standards as brownstones were with party walls that are about 24″ thick made of multiple layes of brick. And do you really think these things were well insulated?? I’m sure the exterior walls are only 2 X 4 and not 2 x 6.
MM – Since the past can sometimes predict the future…..please cite a SINGLE completed residential structure that “failed” within the last 50 years due to anything other than disaster (natural or otherwise), or horrific maintenance neglect……
fsrq…I have to disagree with you. Outrage is the correct reponse on a blog that purports to deal primarily with architecture and brownstone architecture in particular.
And stroller issues are a more appropriate basis of discussion here than are either poverty or war. Will there ever be a war in Brooklyn? The North vs. the South with Atlantic Ave as the “Mason-Dixon” line?? Owners vs. Renters?
fsrq, I happen to know a great deal about construction, thank you very much. But anyone with eyes can recognise crap when they see it, you don’t need to be a builder. Dave is absolutely right. Brownstones may need some upkeep 100 plus years later, but that’s to be expected. Most of these pos buildings need the same major upkeep 10 years after they are built. BIIGGGG difference.
“We as a society need to hold ourselves responsible for what we ‘settle’ for.” – bayridgegirl
No, I bow to you, BRG! : )
“Should it be acceptable? Should we sit back and condone this?”
This is still (barely) a free country – I truly do not think it is the Government’s role to legislate architectural designs. Zoning, setbacks, etc….fine but beyond preservation I do not think Gov’t has a role here.
“We’ve taken a back seat to Europe, Asia and now the Middle East in building standards. Have you seen what was being built over there?”
Have you been to the places of which you speak (and I mean beyond the tourist areas)???
Western Europe’s equivalent neighborhoods have an architecture only a Stalinist could love – (Brooklyn’s Supreme Ct. building would be a masterpiece) – try seeing the outer areas of Paris, Rome, Florence, London, etc…..
and Asia and the ME generally do not even have equivalent neighborhoods – its either luxury or slum.
Again for 50K two of these buildings can be made pleasant- please get outraged over something important like war, poverty or strollers – mid-level housing with plain architecture is hardly an outrage.
Montrose is here….sh*t.
Lost my QOTD. I bow to you.
I go back to listening to Shaggy.
That bay window concoction in the first pic is probably made out of painted particle board or plywood and will be falling apart in 6-7 years. I can only imagine the interiors….laminate flooring, 3/8″ drywall, etc, etc, etc.
“Who did you meet and in what bar that they gave you that number???”
Well, if you must know, it wasn’t a boy in a bar, it was my mother. Thanks for ripping old wounds. Gotta run and call my therapist now…