566 Hancock Street's Seen Better Days
This is a sad one. By last fall, the nine-unit building at 560 Hancock Street at Stuyvesant Avenue had been allowed to deteriorate to such a point that the Department of Buildings ordered that the building be vacated. Judging from a photo on Property Shark (which you can see on the jump), a handful of…
This is a sad one. By last fall, the nine-unit building at 560 Hancock Street at Stuyvesant Avenue had been allowed to deteriorate to such a point that the Department of Buildings ordered that the building be vacated. Judging from a photo on Property Shark (which you can see on the jump), a handful of apartments were still occupied as recently as 2006, though the top floor appears gutted and windowless. What a shame—it’s a beautiful building. It looks like HPD has stepped in to put up the scaffolding but shouldn’t the landlord lose the building? This is a disgrace. GMAP P*Shark DOB
Although one or two of your suggestions are valid What; the rest are just left of left idiotic rantings.
I think your problem is that you despise anyone, particulrly gentrifiers, as you call them, who have made money in real estate over the past 5-10 years. You apparently haven’t because if you had you wouldn’t be living in your mothers basement in Lodi, NJ.
There’s a few others on this blog who represent that bitter point of view but none so much belligerant as you.
I also call you on your veiled racist use of the term “gentrifiers” at every opportunity. Your rantings about gentrifiers moving into Bed Stuy is the most farcical. Is it not those people who live there that have benefitted the most??? Their property values have gone up from a very, very low base. I’m sure they are all happy.
You, on the other hand, apparently were not smart enough to benefit from this whole thing. Bitter.
have any of you ever heard the adage “don’t feed the trolls”?
WHAT=YAWN!!!!!!!!!
“It will happen some day, just not in this environment.”
DAVE=PWNED!!!!!!!!!!
The What
Someday this war is gonna end…
“We may be in a recession, but that does not mean there isn’t money out there. ”
Really MM???!!! Then how come the United States of America is pumping Billions of dollars into the system????
Democrats Near Agreement on $789.5 Billion Stimulus (Update1)
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=ag7KM0MV7gAs&refer=home
Feb. 11 (Bloomberg) — Democratic House and Senate leaders are near agreement on a $789.5 billion economic stimulus plan, a leadership aide said today.
789 Billion dollars of Tax slaves money that the Big Boys will loan back to you and pocket the interest. The scandals going on at Lehman and AIG is disgusting.
“Where are YOUR good ideas?” Here ya go!
1. Let the Banks CRASH! Lets not throw away anymore Tax Slaves money on these insolvent institutions.
2. Let start locking some Assheads who started this crap and send them to POUNDME prison.
3.. Lets go back to 28%/35% Ratios and 25% down payments and be credit worthy to get a GOD Damn Mortgage!
4. Lets Tax the living daylights out of “investment” property!
5. Put a Hard Core Flip Tax in any Property sold within a two year period!
6. Homebuyer education seminars is mandatory for getting a Mortgage!
7.If you don’t maintain your house or leave it empty to flip, you should lose it!
*If you default in a Mortgage and the government use TARP money to buy the paper then the housing should be made available to low income (Working Class) people!
There you go MM! Suck some of this down and get back to me!!!!!!!!!!!
The What
Someday this war is gonna end..
The What doesn’t care about preserving this Bed Stuy building even though that would seem inconsistent for a self-described longtime resident of Brooklyn because he doesn’t actually live in Brooklyn. We know that. He was called out for that ages ago. This is just yet more proof of it.
I’ve asked you many questions and never gotten an answer. I answered about Butternut a few months ago. Go to Bedstuyblog for a longer answer. It will happen some day, just not in this environment.
Is “skittles” code, What.
Please add something constructive to the outlook for this property or go back to your room.
I beleive there are some quaters in the building now.
Dave: The building on the opposite corner is owned and redone by the church on Jefferson. They did do a great job of that building. And the riff raft (sic) is – thankfully – gone.
I think the What should buy this. Then he can stop talking sh!t and actually do something productive with his life.
Dave: Not much of a guess as to how bad the What was as a real estate agent.
This building is likely beyond repair. I live up the street and saw the fire, and watched as the FD put it out. It was a large fire, that had spread through most of the upper floors by the time the FD arrived. Between the extent of the fire, the damage done in putting it out, and the years of neglect, I doubt there’s really much left to save.
Notice along the cornice, in the middle of the building, there’s a large gap — that’s not just the cornice that’s gone, but the brick. And at the right end, you’ll see the wooden framed part is completely burned out — looking up from the street, you can see the sky. It’s a shame, as prior to the fire this thing could probably have been saved.
The scaffolding went up the day after the fire, as debris was actively falling to the street. About a week later, a large part of the tin cornice came loose and started flapping in the wind — the FD came and cut that down. Nothing has (visibly) happened with it since.
Pity the neighbors to the right — the scaffold extends to their house, and shots out the sun from their first two floors.