73 Pineapple Gets Unanimous Thumbs-Up at LPC
Well, we couldn’t have been more wrong about this one. Evidently none of the commissioners shared our concern about the alignment of the facade and the size of the bulkhead because they voted 9-0 to approve the new designs last week. Shows what we know. LPC Urges ‘Do Over’ for 73 Pineapple Street Plan [Brownstoner]…
Well, we couldn’t have been more wrong about this one. Evidently none of the commissioners shared our concern about the alignment of the facade and the size of the bulkhead because they voted 9-0 to approve the new designs last week. Shows what we know.
LPC Urges ‘Do Over’ for 73 Pineapple Street Plan [Brownstoner] GMAP
73 Pineapple Street In Front of LPC Tomorrow [Brownstoner]
I think he means that when you have a Brownstone and install white windows, they stick out like sore thumb, and look like replacement windows. They really do not look nice on a Brownstone
I too like the Bronze or even the Green windows they are historic colors and blend in nicely with Brownstones.
White windows clash with the brownstones. However, they are desireable precisely because they annoy the people who need to get got.
ok, i was actually posing that question as a serious one, but apparently i’m blind. i’m also deaf because as i said, on a block with lined up facades, the traffic noise has nowhere to go and it is louder than i would assume a more baffled surface would be. and i’ve seen blocks on carroll gardens, a lovely brownstone neighborhook with facades (from OLD buildings) lined up all over the place. the neighborhood still looks fine to me. honestly, what is the fetish with facade alignment?
and what is the problem with white windows? if someone has put in white double paned windows, doesn’t that mean they are getting more energy savings and thereby preventing global warming (you know, the thing that will eventually put all those historic buildings in nyc under water) than to have vintage single paned windows?
i don’t understand the “aesthetics at any cost” sensibility of the brownstoner crowd. clearly you have delicate sensibilities, but can’t even defend why something that might deviate from your rigid standards might actually be an improvement.
How soon they forget. 71, 73 (the vacant lot) and 75 were all one property owned by a woman who neglected her properties for decades — and I’ve lived on the block since 1968. This was, I think, a vaudeville house in the 1920s, torn down ages ago. The fact that the owner allowed it to remain a trash-filled vacant lot speaks of her intents and failures, not of the problems with Landmarks.
Now that the woman is dead, her estate finally sold all three lots. 71 and 73 are being redeveloped, although several people apparently still live at both buildings. When these buildings are cleaned up and renovated, the last vestiges of decay on this block will finally be gone.
Make a note that when I moved in, 60 Pineapple was a vacant hulk as well, its facade and windows painted over (facade black, windows white) and derelict. There were no trees on the block. The St. George tower was closed up in 1970, and renovated from 1973 to 1975, with 60 Pineapple following in 1975 to about 1978.
The LPC previously rejected a perfectly fine proposal, so, yeah, it’s inefficient. A bit more modern, and without lined-up facades (such a big deal that turns out to be!), but still something that would have been worth building. It’s funny how people who claim to be the heirs of Jane Jacobs seem to LOVE bureaucratized neighborhood planning.
10:04,
you gotta start laying off the booze.
“visual aesthetics” blah blah blah. lighten up, you knuckleheads… who cares whether the facades line up or whether the windows are white? do you really walk down streets sideways? you must suffer endless disappointment. “audially”… how retarded.
if you know the block, you’ll admit that the two adjoining buildings are ancient piles and are probably ready to fall at any minute. this new structure will be a nice addition to the neighborhood.
5:36 asks a very good question, especially as I assume he/she may be blind. All I can say is that most sighted people just like the way lined up facades look. Visual aesthetics is hard to explain to someone who experiences the world only audially. Take my word for it.
5:36, you probably like white windows, too. Sheesh.