Lot for Sale: Don't Mind the POS Next Door
When the monstrosity at 220 Greene Avenue (at left) was getting built, we would periodically feel sorry for the poor bloke who owned the lot next to him, whose value was being destroyed with every new block of Jerusalem stone. Now that the lot’s on the market and we’ve taken a look at the property’s…
When the monstrosity at 220 Greene Avenue (at left) was getting built, we would periodically feel sorry for the poor bloke who owned the lot next to him, whose value was being destroyed with every new block of Jerusalem stone. Now that the lot’s on the market and we’ve taken a look at the property’s history, we feel a little less sorry for the guy. He got the lot from the city, according to Property Shark, for nothing back in 2001. Corcoran’s 2006 Brooklyn Rookie of the Year broker Philip Henn has the listing, which just hit the web at $650,000. If you want a real eye-opener, check out the photo of the property from, we guess, the 1970s. Grand Avenue looks like a wasteland. Update: We just heard that the owner of this lot is the one who sold the next door two years ago.
218 Greene Avenue [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
holy crap! banji is the guy responsible for the 90 foot steps in front of buildings! holy crap! pratt! great detective work gumshoes
tear it down it’s disrespectful.
I lived on Greene and Cambridge in 1986 and believe me, Grand was a wasteland. I used to walk down that street to the laundromat on Lafayette, and it was not a pleasant walk. Anyone who invested money then and stuck it out through bad times in Clinton Hill deserves to turn a profit.
This is not Soviet architecture, it’s post-Soviet or modern Turkish.
Awosika must have really hated his time at Pratt…
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That building will fall down in about 10 years. I watched it from time to time when they built it. It is god awful. Another small nail in the demise of NYC.
One of the “architects” (Awosika) was educated at, of all places, Pratt, according to his website. What an unmitigated slap in the face to the community.
The architect for 220 Greena Avenue was:
BANJI AWOSIKA ARCHITECT P.C.
140-23 QUEENS BLVD, JAMAICA, NY
Their website is:
http://www.banjiarchitect.com/
They apparently specialize in tract housing of the soviet-era variety.
While I’ve reluctantly come to accept the Soviet-era aesthetics of most new construction in Brooklyn, 220 Green St really takes the biscuit. Let me guess who the architect was: the GC’s 2nd grader with a big box of crayons?