HOTD: Mixing Modern and Traditional on Sixth Ave
Inspired, perhaps, by our recent focus on Fifth Avenue in the South Slope, a reader shot us a photo of this recently completed building on the corner of Sixth Avenue and 14th Street. “Anything would be better than the hollowed out brick building that was there about a year ago,” he writes, “but I think…
Inspired, perhaps, by our recent focus on Fifth Avenue in the South Slope, a reader shot us a photo of this recently completed building on the corner of Sixth Avenue and 14th Street. “Anything would be better than the hollowed out brick building that was there about a year ago,” he writes, “but I think this is great mix of modern and contextual.” We think the top three floors look okay but aren’t really grooving on the choice of material for the ground floor. Why not just continue the brownstone (if that’s what it is) from the upper floors? A little web surfing turned up the listing on Brooklyn Properties. Turns out it’s a 2-family asking $2.25 million. It won’t come as a surprise we’d opt for something different in that price range, but this looks like a lot of square footage with solid rental income and, get this, a 3-car garage. We could see someone stepping up to the place in that range if the interior finishes are well done.
Extravagant 2-family [Brooklyn Properties] GMAP
Interesting about the brownstone. But I can promise you one thing: the people that built this house didn’t get the material from there. I believe the “stone” lining the ground floor can be purchased for 99 cents a square foot at 11st Street Linen down on 5th Ave., if anyone is familiar with that establishment.
http://www.brownstonequarry.com
if anyone is interested…apparently some people in portland, ct (one of the original big brownstone quarries) have begun to produce brownstone again. my whole life growing up in brooklyn everyone always understood brownstone to be “extinct”…in any case just an FYI
I am the previous anon. I must amend my comment as I just read an article about a quarry that began producing brownston in 2002. In any case, clearly this building is not made of brownstone…looks more like cinderblocks.
First of all, if you notice the piece of paper glued to the window in the lower right hand corner of the photo, that is a “stop work order” and has been there for ages. The interior does not appear to be finished yet and they seem to still be working on that so even though the house has been listed forever, I don’t think it’s actually done yet. But come on, let’s be realistic here. I actually live on this block and love it. But for that kind of money, I would buy a whole brownstone in say, well…just about anywhere! IMO, this place is a total miscalculation built by a developer who hasn’t spent time in the neighborhood and has no idea what people who buy in the South Slope are actually looking for.
It’s not a brownstone or stucco exterior, it’s rustic stone or brickwork that doesn’t look very good. Also not great is the ironwork — typically stock shlock.
I’ve been watching this building being constructed and it sure did look interesting until the finishing details came to light — reinterpretations of the brownstone type are few and far between. Still, despite the finishes, I think an interesting project.
–an architect in brooklyn
hey brownstoner:
there is no more brownstone available for building materials, so there is no way the upper material is brownstone.
Looks pretty awesome from the outside.
Sometimes the dogs turn out to be the best deals. For the buyer, it’s often a GOOD thing if a property has been on the market for a long time. Let the negotiations begin!
This is on the corner of 6th ave and 13th street, not 14th.