"Tuscan" Townhouses Coming to Red Hook
Gino Vitale, a Red Hook builder, is converting a one-story garage there into five single-family houses with private, street-facing garages. The Brooklyn Eagle offered this rendering of the project, at 91-99 King Street, which Vitale said was inspired by a recent trip to Tuscany. The architecture firm on the DOB filings? Henry Radusky of Bricolage….
Gino Vitale, a Red Hook builder, is converting a one-story garage there into five single-family houses with private, street-facing garages. The Brooklyn Eagle offered this rendering of the project, at 91-99 King Street, which Vitale said was inspired by a recent trip to Tuscany. The architecture firm on the DOB filings? Henry Radusky of Bricolage. Those poor Red Hookers can’t catch a break. Remember this crap?
These are, as other have noted, a joke. Much like the referenced monstrocities on Wolcott Street, these two are directly across the street from the Red Hook Houses. The rest of the block, between Richards and King, is half residential and half M-zoned buildings, and all are in pretty bad shape – overgrown lots with abandoned houses, dilapidated warehouses, etc. Red Hook rents are not exactly soaring either, so I am not sure how you make an investment of it, let alone loosen the purse strings to the tune of $1.3MM. Exspecailly now. Especially in Red Hook.
Boy, I wish the Brooklyn Eagle could have helped me with a rendition of my face back when I was online dating! Has anyone walked by this place?
I took a walk by this summer. I’m assuming that’s the “interior” courtyard or something. The street-side of the building itself is practically in the street. It’s also directly across the street from the housing projects (on the upside, you don’t have to worry about NEW architectural monstrosities across the way). When I walked by there, the buildings, still under construction had been tagged with spray paint, as had parts of the interior fencing.
Good luck unloading those.
Boy, I wish the Brooklyn Eagle could have helped me with a rendition of my face back when I was online dating! Has anyone walked by this place?
I took a walk by this summer. I’m assuming that’s the “interior” courtyard or something. The street-side of the building itself is practically in the street. It’s also directly across the street from the housing projects (on the upside, you don’t have to worry about NEW architectural monstrosities across the way). When I walked by there, the buildings, still under construction had been tagged with spray paint, as had parts of the interior fencing.
Good luck unloading those.
They’re nice.
dave… I have heard nothing, but I’m quite a bit west of Stuy Heights. I was bummed when Foccaccino closed, even if their pizza was kinda doughy.
Can we please revise the zoning/building code so that garages, if they exist at all, aren’t facing the FREAKING STREET!!!!
This certainly reminds me of the hills of Tuscany. 🙁
Looks more like one of Saddam Hussein’s former palaces.
Walk out of your ‘Tuscan’ Townhouse, walk three blocks west, that’s the Mediterranean!!