348 Clermont Demo Well Underway
HPD appears to be wasting no time in dismantling the long-neglected brownstone at 348 Clermont Avenue. For more background on the situation, see our post from earlier this week. 348 Clermont Avenue Getting Demolished [Brownstoner] House of the Day: 348 Clermont Avenue Shell [Brownstoner] GMAP
HPD appears to be wasting no time in dismantling the long-neglected brownstone at 348 Clermont Avenue. For more background on the situation, see our post from earlier this week.
348 Clermont Avenue Getting Demolished [Brownstoner]
House of the Day: 348 Clermont Avenue Shell [Brownstoner] GMAP
Anyone know what they are doing with all that brick? I’m looking for garden patio material and wondering if the brick could be acquired and reused.
mole 03/09 thread: “This building site will be recycled as denser housing which will benefit a lot more people than spending the same amount to do custom artwork on a facade of a worn-out building.”
mole today’s thread: “The house is another victim of rent control. Owner couldn’t make any money off it as an SRO, and didn’t make enough to repair it. Building deteriorated. Nobody else would buy it owing to the fact that you can’t kick out SRO tenants and the no harassment process takes a long time.”
So, wait, really dense brownstone-lot-sized housing is great for the poor, but rent-controlled SROs are bad for the poor?
How much is your stuff an ounce?
This is sad. G-man responded to my comment the other day and let us know the roof apparently had one or more huge holes which let in a lot of rain. Such a shame. As long as the roof is decent…even only letting in drips…it’s okay, but once there are holes, it’s asking for complete deterioration to happen.
Very, very sad.
Meanwhile, has anyone see the drek and lousy, cheap construction quality on Cumberland between Greene and Lafayette? They’re finally building on the lot the Church sold a number of years ago. The Presbyterian Church had the townhouse on that lot ripped down, I think it was in the late 50’s or early 60’s because they apparently needed to have room outside their fire exit. It was too bad.
I’m very concerned about both the structural integrity, quality and safety of the worksite. I’m also concerned how they plan meeting Landmarking.
The Cumberland building is being built with cinderblocks and wooden joists. The cinderblock work is kind of atrocious. The quality is remarkably poor. There’s barely any evidence they are using rebar and pouring concrete into the cavities for reinforcement. PLUS, they’re using chards and fragments of cinderblocks trying to finish the wall at the ends because they apparently don’t have the half-blocks needed to do it properly.
I was really shocked at how they’re building those walls!!!
I’m not asking they go the expensive route like the new condo building (I think it’s called the Classic), also on Cumberland but on the block closer to the park, which was built with a steel frame. But if I were the DOB, I’d get in the there and shut it down for inspection.
No matter what, if they’re looking to build a flat four-story cinderblock vertical wall with little reinforcement and no apparently structural buttressing…I can’t vouch for the building’s structural integrity/safety!
The house is another victim of rent control.
Owner couldn’t make any money off it as an SRO, and didn’t make enough to repair it. Building deteriorated. Nobody else would buy it owing to the fact that you can’t kick out SRO tenants and the no harassment process takes a long time.
Result: Dead building, and no housing for the poor or anyone else for that matter.
Score one for the tenants lobby!
How much does does this demo cost the homeowner? What happens insurance wise when HPD dismantles a house? If the house was fully insured, would the insurance company pay to rebuild it? What’s it cost per sf to build from bottom up?