One Hanson Place Shows Its Hand
A Curbed reader cracked the code on the One Hanson Place (aka the Williamsburg Savings Bank) website to reveal a wealth of photos and listing information. Since Curbed already ran the photos, we showing you a price list for one bedrooms. Oooh, these are going to go like hotcakes. Availability [One Hanson] Sneaking Into One…
A Curbed reader cracked the code on the One Hanson Place (aka the Williamsburg Savings Bank) website to reveal a wealth of photos and listing information. Since Curbed already ran the photos, we showing you a price list for one bedrooms. Oooh, these are going to go like hotcakes.
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Sneaking Into One Hanson Place [Curbed]
Brooklyn is low density and open sky?
Uh, come back to earth here.
And tall buildings ‘block’ views primarily when right next to you. Ones an avenue or so away become part of the view and real stretch to say they block your light etc.
Get over it folks – amazing to hear so many tyrades against high-rises when live in NYC. Really do sound pretty silly.
Geez, since many of us live in 3,4 story houses – are we kvetching how the next store neighbors house and across the street block our light and views?
Anon@4:40 – it is hyperbolic comments like yours that make it so easy to ignore the drumbeat of critisim against new developments.
The Brooklyn Bridge Park will not have a single building over 20 stories and the 3 planned buildings are either at Atlantic Ave entrance or north of the bridge – thereby resulting in no “constant darkness” for Brooklyn Heights.
Nor will the buildings along 4th ave (maximum 12 stories),or the builings in Williamsburg (miles away) block anyones view or light.
Finally, Brooklyn’s charm doesnt come from open sky’s that would be Montana’s
The B Heights waterfront towers and Williamsburg towers will not noticibly detract from the Williamsburgh Bank building views. You are far enough away when in Ft. Greene/BAM area for those new buildings to not crowd out the Manhattan view. I know, I have a roof deck in the neighborhood. That said, any highrises closer to the W’burgh will have an effect.
I’d like to call One Hanson Place, The ‘Burgh from now on. What do you think? Doesn’t sound as posh 🙂
I was’t bemoaning “hanson” but rather the mass of other hideous things to be built all around it. I don’t think people realize how much of Brooklyn’s charm comes from it’s low density and relatively open sky. It’ll be funny to see when the people in the heights suddenly discover that their 4M plus houses are in constant darkness. Truth be told, WB is special only becuase it stands out on the skyline. There are loads of similar buildings in Manhattan, you just never notice them because they are lost in the mass of others.
How can you compare new construction to One Hanson? It is a historically significant building.
What views? The view of manhattan will be blocked by the new towers on the Heights’ waterfront. The view east will be blocked by the Atlantic behemoth, the views north will be blocked by the wall of towers in Williamsburg, and the views south will be blocked by assorted other hideous things.
On the other hand, it will probably be the only way to get sunlight in all of Brooklyn, since the rest of us will be in permanent shadow.
I guess the real reason that the time is often wrong at the WSB building is that the wind actually pushes the hands of the clock off-time. Thus, one side of the building will have the right time, and the other will not. They reset them constantly. There was an article about that somewhere once.
southern exposure is not pleasant to live with.
WilliamsburgH. Please do not forget the letter H at the end.
I used to keep my money at the Williamsburgh Savings Bank.
A bunch of tall buildings are going to be built along the waterfront in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Understood? Good.