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Carroll Gardens better get off its ass and create some historic districts pronto. Here’s the poster child for the cause: The addition to this house at 3rd Place and Clinton Street, made all the worse by its corner location, has to be one of the greatest bastardizations of a beautiful old brownstone we’ve ever seen. May their condos languish on the market indefinitely. Do you think it would be possible to organize a buying strike against this place? Picket the open houses? GMAP P*Shark

Here’s the rendering of the finished product:
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  1. the problem in my eyes is that the city lacks anything between developmental anarchy and the frozen in time approach of landmarks.

    Couldn’t the city set something up where you can replace your windows w/o a 1 yr approval process but the worst of the worst in design elements could be prevented (fedders, cinderblock construction, etc.)?

  2. Anyone who thinks this is “cool” lacks the most elementary visual sensitivity and doesn’t get that in a dense city with diverse people architecture *must* be guided by “boring” conventions lest the contorted taste of the few be imposed upon the many in a manner the “cool”-seekers would likely find totally unacceptable in any other realm of life. This is execrable architecture of the sort that is suited only to the privacy of one’s own gated boondock retreat. Unfortunately, I am not at all convinced that in the present climate the Landmarks Preservation Commission would not have approved this. Brutal disjuncture is the name of the puerile game being played by our putative elite in the early 21st century.

    By the way, this house is *not* a brownstone.

  3. Holy bleep,

    That thing is FUQQEN UGLY.
    THEY JUST DEVOURED THAT BUIDLING.

    QUICK BATMAN, TAKE THAT BUILDING EXTENSION OFF AND SAVE US ALL FROM THE MISERIE OF LOOKING AT THAT PIECE OF GARBAGE. PLEASE ARREST THESE GUYS WHOM ARE OVERPAYING FOR BUILDINGS AND SCREWING WITH THE ARCHITECTURAL LANDSCAPE.

    IT HAPPENS IN THE CITY, NOW IT’S HAPPENING IN THE BKLYN PART OF THE CITY, too.

    :o(