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June 13, 2007
Surprise! 936 Fulton Will Be Condos
When work started at 936-938 Fulton Street in Clinton Hill a few months ago, we were thrilled that someone was taking on the rehab of these two decrepit (but architecturally attractive) brownstone buildings. Given that Fulton Street still lacks the drawing power of other blocks in the neighborhood, we made sure not to let our expectations rise too high. The first question was whether this project would be rentals or condos. The answer? Condos. Two commercial and 11 residential. That is itself is a positive step for the street (of course, we should wait to see if anyone buys 'em before breaking out the champagne). The second question is whether they will be nice. The website of developer Ore International (which Kensington Blog recently noted is doing another project on Crooke Avenue) says the units will be marked by "Old Brooklyn charm, coupled with stylishly modern sensibility and design." We'll see. We think a developer's choice of windows has huge signal value for the quality of the rest of the project and the cheap-looking aluminum windows that just went in (reminiscent of the ones Guttman just put in at 155 Water Street) are a bummer. A snazzy storefront would be welcome news, though, indeed.
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Sounds great! it seems that finally fulton is getting the attention deserved, two of the cast iron facades between clinton and waverly have been recently redone and i think the building next to 936 to the left is up for sale, check the link out!
http://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/rfs/346919939.html
Posted by: Anonymous at June 13, 2007 9:51 AM
This is good news for the (burgeoning) stretch of Fulton east of Washington. Between Outpost, Joloff Restaurant, Brown Betty, Kush, Lox, and all the places going up on Grand St this area will probably attract some condo-buyers. I love to use the word burgeoning now! Thanks for introducing it to me, Mr. B!
There are good services within a block -- the C train, the Met food, the Post Office, etc.
Posted by: Anonymous at June 13, 2007 9:57 AM
I just signed a contract at 179 Monroe (same developer, I did my homework) and I was impressed with how high quality that building is.
Posted by: Anonymous at June 13, 2007 10:13 AM
Great news for that end of Fulton… Watch out Park Slope I smell another 5th Ave
Posted by: MMM at June 13, 2007 10:54 AM
Oh please, puhLEEEASE let it be true! How I'd love for things to pick up on this stretch of Fulton. Go ahead and call me a classist snob and tell me to 'go back to Idaho'...I can take it.
9:57 - I'm confused by your referring to the Adelphi PO as a 'good service'. Clearly you've never availed yourself of their 'service'...
Posted by: houseowax at June 13, 2007 11:22 AM
Perhaps 9:57 meant "good" as in convenient, not necessarily high in quality. I've never been in a Met Food that had me looking forward to when I could next come back. And houseowax is spot on about Adelphi Station. (Is it true that the postal service calls them "stations" because when you get on line, you are almost stationary?)
Posted by: Anonymous at June 13, 2007 1:58 PM
I saw LOX next to Kush this weekend - it was close. What is it? A Bagel place? Is it open?
Posted by: lp at June 13, 2007 2:16 PM
I stopped shopping at that Met after a cockroach crawled out of a shopping bag that I had just brought home.
Although it was a pretty small roach compared to the 2-incher I saw blithely dropping out of the candy shelf at the Duane Reade on Court St. @ Montague last week.
Posted by: bolletje at June 13, 2007 2:22 PM
Thanks for shareing your unfortunate experience with Met. I am sure many others have an adversity to this purveyor of fine crap.
Posted by: nick at June 13, 2007 2:56 PM
Thanks for shareing your unfortunate experience with Met. I am sure many others have an adversity to this purveyor of fine crap.
Posted by: nick at June 13, 2007 2:56 PM
Buy in this area until you can because is going to explode!
Posted by: Anonymous at June 13, 2007 3:51 PM
If it is going to explode, then someone should probably let the Department of Homeland Security know.
Posted by: Meryckawick at June 13, 2007 4:45 PM
The top photo, an artistic 'rendering' of how the property will look once complete according to the architect's website, looks suspiciously like dentists' or plastic surgeons' offices to me.
Posted by: Archiefina at June 13, 2007 9:05 PM
It is very interesting to watch this all happen. Not sure why all the focus on the Met, which seems to be decent for a downmarket grocery store. At a community meeting last summer, one resident of St James (the street on the right side of pht), remarked about how she had been threatened by drug dealers at the corner. As I was walking home this evening, the police were making a bust at the corner. The dealers seem to deal out of an apartment on the second floor of the building with the Respect for Life sign (signalling up to people from the street). That said, it does seem like the area is finally getting in line with the rest of Clinton Hill. More gentrifiers on Irving (although Putnam itself is still lined with overpriced guts waiting to happen). I have been told that LOX is going to e a "Jazz club."
Posted by: putnam-denizen at June 13, 2007 10:04 PM
Wow. This market is begging for anything remotely less tasteless, cheap, and crappy than what all these developpers are dumping on us. The minute someone with a modicum of class puts something up, it disappears off the market.
Calling all good architects/designer-builders: Get together and become developpers. Don't let these creeps monopolize the market and deprive people of decent options.
Posted by: Anonymous at June 13, 2007 10:37 PM
The property hit the auction block so many times in the last six years, we thought it would just stay a second mortgatge scam property. Glad someone finally bought it to build rather thatn bilk.
Posted by: Anonymous at June 14, 2007 6:03 AM
LOX will be a Jazz Club? Hmm. Interesting. Could be nice. I was hoping for something more basic in terms of needed service on Fulton, like a bagel shop. Please, Please, Please, someone considering starting a business, open any or all of the following: green grocer, bakery, fishmonger, butcher, cheese shop/specialty food shop, more nice restaurants such as a clean nice diner, bistro, mexican, italian, a nice bar (maybe Lox will fill that category).
I guarantee it is a situation of "build it and they will come". The Southern end of Clinton Hill is just begging for this along Fulton Street.
And to the owners of the soon to arrive "LOX" - welcome and good luck.
Posted by: lp at June 14, 2007 12:04 PM
Um, is no one slightly concerened at the further gentrification of Brooklyn, the maby displaced families that used to call these neighborhoods home, the alarmingly rapidly rising rents that will probably result in a market crash, and how this buiding will allow another influx of post yuppie money heavy snobs to move in and further sterilize new york?
Posted by: guest at November 8, 2007 3:05 PM
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