Under the Radar: Greenpoint Standard-Bearer
Only a couple of blocks from McCarren Park, this 1910 vinyl-sided 20-footer is asking $920,000. Perhaps more interesting given the building boom in the area is that, according to Property Shark, there’s another 2,500 square feet of unused FAR. We’re surprised more people aren’t replacing the siding with some old-fashioned wood. What’s that cost? $10,000?…
Only a couple of blocks from McCarren Park, this 1910 vinyl-sided 20-footer is asking $920,000. Perhaps more interesting given the building boom in the area is that, according to Property Shark, there’s another 2,500 square feet of unused FAR. We’re surprised more people aren’t replacing the siding with some old-fashioned wood. What’s that cost? $10,000? $20,000? We’d surprised if that weren’t a value-enhancing move.
547 Leonard [Greenpoint Properties] GMAP P*Shark
I live in a two year old building on Freeman. I don’t know what it replaced, but I think my landlord, a Greenpointer, did a pretty good job. There a some things I would have done differently (for the price point why not put in central air and avoid the wall through AC), but in general I think it is a good design and good quality construction.
ditto to naomi.
I feel like a broken record having to pipe up with this fact every time Greenpoint is mentioned, but here goes again: the Newtown Sewage Treatment Plant is *not* a “never solved sore.” It underwent a major, $$$ upgrade last year, and since then I haven’t smelled a whiff of sewage. The nabe has its share of problems, but fortunately that huge one is no longer among them.
Hey, lay of brownstoner. Greenpoint should be lucky that it’s getting mentioned on this blog (: >
Tell me I’m wrong, Bstoner, but my sense is you don’t generally point out the FAR if the house is in Clinton Hill or Fort Greene. Or you’d preface it by something like, I just hope some philistine developer doesn’t buy this house and build it out to its maximum FAR.
But in Greenpoint — hey, go for it!
BTW, we’re not obsessed with FAR, but you can’t ignore it when evaluating how a property is priced. It sort of funny to be accused of caring only about FAR at the expense of historic details.
Alan, clearly you’ve never been to Poland. The “native aesthetic” yuo’re talking about is strictly american style white (or black, or hispanic, or hasidic) trash. It is POOR. That’s all.
So if you’re gonna be prejudiced, get your prejudices straight. You got a problem with the way the lower classes in Greenpoint(and I assure you, you’d feel the same way about Jersey City and Jackson Heights) decorate their homes.
If they bought their houses, they have every right to now cash in, like everyone else, and do whatever the hell they want to there.
You want to educate poor people to be more historically conservationist? Go for it. Start a fund. But for now, leave those people alone. Williamsburg is a grotesque s-hole of apartment buildings built by hasids with bars on every window (all the way up to the 12th floor!) and no one has a problem with that. I’ve got a hispanic developer putting up fedders box acrros HALF of my block in s, williamsburg.
you have problems with little houses? Look around.
And yeah, Kent is nice. Gee. Wouldn’t we all love to live on that block, poles or not.
But how? Community Board is corrupt. Big money has the political clout. Look at the never-solved sores:
* the Newtown sewage treatment plant: it belches up number 2 gas all year long. Interesting that no technology exists to stop that noxious cloud from passing over Greenpoint.
* the underground oil spill that National Geographic has explored and the River Keeper is suing over. The puny promise by big oil to clean it up is insulting
* the luxury towers that will come soon and not be affordable to most people
* the closing of the neighborhood parochial schools
* the closing of Fire Engine 212 on the Northside
* the political redistricting that carved up Greenpoint – you should look at that weird map
* the mystery of the missing funding for the restoration/complete renovation of the Greenpoint library (from the bunker with books to a grand building like the one it used to be..talk about a heart breaker)
* the never-ending waterfront development committees that seem to be the warm-up acts before the real performance kicks off.
* the diminuative McCarren Park that is bursting at it’s seems from users
* the aging and dilapidated McCarren Park pool
I’ll stop here since my fingers ache from typing so many things!
Alan, I am in complete agreement with your 10:33 post. Greenpoint is being viewed as a place to tear down builiding that could be saved/fixed up and build aesthetically unappealing cash cows. Preservation and restoration can and should occur in Greenpoint.