Another Small Developer Cutting Corners
We swung by to take a look at the progress on the corner of Grand and Greene this weekend and then stopped in next door to chat with local salvage kingpin Eddie. What we learned was this: Three Saturday’s ago Eddie had to call the fire department because the developer had, surprise, surprise, conducted the…
We swung by to take a look at the progress on the corner of Grand and Greene this weekend and then stopped in next door to chat with local salvage kingpin Eddie. What we learned was this: Three Saturday’s ago Eddie had to call the fire department because the developer had, surprise, surprise, conducted the initial foundation excavation without the supervision of an engineer and, and a result, the handful of non-licensed workers on site had “compromised” the wall of his building by digging too far under it. So the fire department showed up and issued a Cease Work order and now supposedly things are being done by the book. We hope so. Work has resumed but our confidence level in what the finished product will look like is pretty low.
More Development in Eastern Clinton Hill [Brownstoner]
Does anyone have any update on 220 greene?????
I wouldn’t buy it, but idiots like you would. Economics at it’s most basic level says that because you are too stupid to know better, you will buy a piece of crap that taints the neighborhood. As long as some dumbass is buying it, cut-rate developers will keep building it.
What planet am I from? I’m from Brooklyn interloper. Look up the name “Meryckawick” if you want a real lesson in Brooklyn history, it is the oldest name of Brooklyn.
wtf is scaproperties anyway? you people are void of any real knowledge. b-rat is spot on as is anon 7:24.
no one – even the most unscrupulous wants the neighboring building falling on them – wake up!
cutting corners and hiring unskilled labor is not the issue and likely the reason for at least part of the problem.
You fuel this site on pure speculation – come on – it doesn’t have to be so ludacris.
It seems evident that this band of Clinton Hill Ghetto lovers are now experts on every aspect of construction right down to engineering. and you live in Clinton Hill because you frankly couldn’t afford a more established nabe.
This ranting is so played out.
Oh, ah excuse me, Meryckawick (what planet are you from?), if you don’t *buy* fedder covered crap, then it’s not profitable to build it, duh. Perhaps there is also an economics expert on staff here that can explain this to you.
It’s nice to see the shoddy developers supporting each other. Rather than a website, how about you create an organization for people who cut corners on their developments and those who LOVE those Fedders style buildings. It is expensive to develop, but we all know, you wouldn’t be doing it if you weren’t going to make a LOT of money doing it. How about you take a small percentage of those unconcionable profits and actually use it to make an attractive building rather than a hideous one that you will shit out and then abandon as you move on to the next neighborhood defacing project.
I agree with everything Borough Rat posted. He should start his own website. As somebody with considerable NYC construction experience, I agree with him completely.
Ordinary folks need places to live too, you lazy, armchair hogging bums! Not everybody cares about antique moldings, mantels, and carved ironwork. Most people just want a clean, safe place to live.
It’s much more expensive to build “attractive” new construction than you backseat renovaters can possibly imagine. There’s no comparison between renovating the inside of an existing brownstone and building from scratch. It’s another ballgame entirely and none of you know anything of which you speak.
The cinder blocks are looking totally sweet. I think they are going for methlab chic.
Um, Shahn is a guy dude.
wow! go get’em shahn! awoken from a drunken stupor at 3am with an venomous tongue as her arsenal! well done! timber!!!!!
Commack? Privileged? Only if you consider intense boredom and incredible ugliness privileges (in which case I totally understand your affection for the Fedders style).