The Shame of Fulton Hitting Market
We’re loathe to give exposure to anything as reprehensible as 1067 Fulton Street, but the occasion of its first showing tomorrow seemed like a good reason to revisit what we have referred to in the past as the biggest lost opportunity for Clinton Hill certainly since we’ve been documenting its progress. We’ve seen some ugly…
We’re loathe to give exposure to anything as reprehensible as 1067 Fulton Street, but the occasion of its first showing tomorrow seemed like a good reason to revisit what we have referred to in the past as the biggest lost opportunity for Clinton Hill certainly since we’ve been documenting its progress. We’ve seen some ugly new buildings in our time, but this one takes the cake for its sheer ad-hoc butchery and complete disregard for any kind of consistency. Someone once described this building process to us as looking like its construction was dictated solely by whatever materials were on sale that day at Home Depot. The development company that built this monstrosity, New Start LLC of 50 Greene Street, whose principals include Alfred Thompson and Paul Galvin, should be ashamed of themselves. There’s an open house for the apartments tomorrow from 12 to 1:30 and, man, would we be excited if someone could snap a photo of any of them. These guys should be embarrassed to walk down the street in the neighborhood. It would be great if none of the apartments sold and they were bankrupted; in our dreams, then, someone could tear it down and start over. Sadly, though, the apartments are priced cheaply enough (from $150,000 to $420,000) that some poor souls may be suckered into buying; ironically, it will probably be the people who can least afford to make a bad investment.
1067 Fulton: The Plague Spreads [Brownstoner] GMAP
Development at Classon and Fulton [Brownstoner]
New Build at Classon and Fulton [Brownstoner]
The fault for this piece of architectural vandalism lies squarely with the developer. I can tell you with certainty that the Architect of this job was used by this developer to sheepard the project through the buildings department and get permits. Unbeknownst to the Architect, the construction was already in progress. If the developer had waited until the permits were issued to begin construction the Architect would have started his construction observation phase. It is impossible for an Architect to babysit every single client. Please just know that buildings like this hurt those of us in the design community just like they hurt you. We attempt to provide good design whenever we can but we are up against a bunch of greedy beancounters who only care about one thing..$$$
er- book.
I know who Upton Sinclair is but never read that bool. Thanks for the info
“I think CHP is the new Upton Sinclair. I think I just saw the Jurgis Rudkis family move into 1067 Fulton.
Posted by: Anonymous at August 12, 2006 02:41 PM
who the hell are they?
Posted by: Anonymous at August 12, 2006 05:13 PM”
To anon 08/12 at 5:13 this is who Upton Sinclair and Jurgis Rudkis(Jurgis Rudkus) are:
Upton Beall Sinclair (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968) His novel “The Jungle” was written 100 years ago. The story follows Lithuanian immigrant Jurgis Rudkus and his family.
Details here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upton_Sinclair
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jungle
ItsAWrap, Pratt is on DeKalb Avenue. Going straight up Classon this is at least 8-9 blocks away. This will not be defacto housing for poor students who just need a roof over their heads. This will be sold to renters already living on the Clinton Hill/Bed-Stuy border that are getting priced out of the floor-throughs they are renting in brownstones.
CrownHeights, i was just joking about your Gatsbyism. Sure everyone should have a chance of having a piece of the rock. But for reasons too numeral to mention, many people do not want to own a home.
You quickly dismiss the investment idea. However, Pratt is just 4 blocks away. Do you really think students have the same concerns as you do? If this ends up as defacto Pratt housing(like Taaffe Pl) is that such a bad thing?
I went to the open house too. All of the units I saw were awful. They should sell the place to another developer who can fix all of the problems and then sell the units.
1067 Fulton is such a wasted opportunity. Depsite great potential, it failed to bring about something truly special to the southeastern corner of Clinton Hill. This is prime real estate and the project could have served as the development catalyst for Fulton Street. Yes, it is a shame….
This place is awful. It represents the “development gone wild” approach that our Mayor and City Council are encouraging. The developers will make their money and the community and owners will be stuck with this.
We should all be concerned with the proliferation of small condo buildings with very little common space and no superintendent. These building will become breeding grounds for all sorts of problems years from now as owners rent their condos out for income (especially if they can’t sell them).