Landmarked Florist Building Up For Sale
Here’s a neat opportunity for someone with a little vision: The landmarked McGovern Florist building at the corner of 25th Street and 5th Avenue in Greenwood Heights is up for sale. The glass structure is being sold along with an adjacent two-story woodframe house for $1,500,000 or on its own for $775,000. Obviously the location…
Here’s a neat opportunity for someone with a little vision: The landmarked McGovern Florist building at the corner of 25th Street and 5th Avenue in Greenwood Heights is up for sale. The glass structure is being sold along with an adjacent two-story woodframe house for $1,500,000 or on its own for $775,000. Obviously the location across from the entrance to Green-wood Cemetery makes flowers an obvious choice, but that space would be pretty amazing as a beer garden!
750 5th Avenue Listing [CPEX] GMAP
Legalize weed, tax the heck out of it, and fill the city coffers. Then the numbers on restoring this greenhouse start to make sense.
bxgrl: sorry, had to sell the villa to re-vinyl side my frame.
they should pick it up and move it to the brooklyn bridge park for a crystal palace moment.
i prefer crystal palaces over sand volleyball pits but that’s just me
MM and I drove past it last week and remarked again what a fabulous building it is. Don’t know that the LPC would be so much of a problem changing the interiors to accommodate a restaurant since the landmarking is for the exterior. The old frame house should be restored too- I would so love to have the money to buy this place.
Action (Do you still have my room in your house in Mexico? 🙂
I don’t know that the family had the funds to really keep the building up. I can only imagine what the costs would be for a greenhouse. Huge.
A beer hall? In that location?
No, not seeing it.
CLB, yes I actually can. I’m sure there is State and Fed $$ available and as IMBY pointed out, the sale of the house next door could fund part of the restoration.
In any case it first needs to be restored to it’s 1800’s splendor (it was once looked at as a gateway to Green-Wood 9as was the other Weir on the Ft. Hamilton side), then the “use” is up fro grabs, though it is zone commercial along that part of 5th Ave (as may be the adjacent house as well).
Shame on the family for letting it degrade so far. Went from a corner stone of the neighborhood to an eye sore.
I seem to have a dim recollection of a Beer Hall in a similar turn-of-the-last-century glass structure, in Flatbush, over near Parkside or Church? Near a train station? Think I saw a picture of it somewhere…
“Here’s a neat opportunity for someone with a little vision”
Actually it looks an opportunity for someone with a huge amount a money and years of free time to spend battling LPC. Can you imagine restoring that thing for a new use? Yikes.
What’s actually sort of funny about the beer garden discussion is that the strip across from the cemetery entrance had actually filled up with drinking establishments during the 1850s. From the 1866 History of the place (Nehemiah Cleaveland’s “Green-Wood Cemetery: A History of the Institution from 1838 to 1864”):
“On Sundays, especially, when funerals are most frequent, afflicted mourners were often shocked, at the very threshold of the ground, by sights and sounds of drunken carousal.â€
According to Cleaveland, these distractions were bad enough that the cemetery owners secretly bought up land and built a new entrance (this is the strip leading down to 4th Ave.), only opening the old entrance during funeral processions. And it worked: the “places of entertainment” closed down soon after.