Scaffolding Down, Listings Imminent at 93 Nevins
After a painfully slow construction process, 93 Nevins, aka the Health House, is finally on the home stretch. The scaffolding started coming down at the end of last week and the developer tells us that the listings could hit the market by mid-March, though the big opening splash is set for Earth Day in April….
After a painfully slow construction process, 93 Nevins, aka the Health House, is finally on the home stretch. The scaffolding started coming down at the end of last week and the developer tells us that the listings could hit the market by mid-March, though the big opening splash is set for Earth Day in April.
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Thanks for the olive branches Manitoba + Knickerbocker. I thought your comments yesterday were harsh and had a knee jerk reaction. Apologies. anyway, Nevins remains a sort of no man’s block. The improevement there is slow and there is little to no retail. A decent coffee shop opened on Bergen + Nevins a few years ago and the crappy bodega on Dean + Nevins was converted into a peditrician’s office, which was a good addition to the neighborhood and great use of the space. Would like ot see more, but the parking lot on Atlantic + Nevins, combined with the Nat Turner Center make it sort of a dead zone. Compare it to Bond (between Pacific + Atlantic) which has become just a great block with Building on Bond, several retail shops + gadzooks – a day spa.
B.H. –
I’m not trying to start a troll war either, so sorry if my words came off as harsh. When I refer to “crap hole”, I’m definitely not referring to the area that I actually consider Boerum Hill. However, when I lived in the area, the stretch of Pacific Street from 4th ave to Nevins was not a nice area. Further, I’ve never considered this part of Boerum Hill; for me, that was always west of Nevins.
When I first lived there, 457 Pacific Street was an empty garbage lot, 455 Pacific Street had just been “rescued” from being a crack house, and 453 Pacific was full of garbage and rats. Also, the playground at the school across the street was full of broken glass and homeless people at night.
By 2000-2002, however, I agree with you that even the stretch of Pacific was getting nicer. The laundromat had opened and hired a security guard to deal with the fights at night in the back, the school had fixed up the playground (I hear now it’s astroturf which is great), the school had become safer, 457 Pacific had been built and 455 Pacific had been renovated.
But, even in the mid-90s, I thought Boerum Hill was nice, but I lived east of Nevins and was not sad when I moved out.
It sounds like the developers are nice honest people, unlike most Brooklyn developers, so hopefully they’ll find success and be able to fix up other dilapidated buildings.
“Boerum Hill” – just need to respond your statement. You didn’t appear to read my comments carefully. I like living in the area, so much so that I moved BACK in 2004-6 when the rents were triple what I paid in 1994.
My comments are only about the very real and current problem of noise and garbage on the side streets (which relates to my stay in 2004-6), and my memory of this particular building (which was across the street from me in 1994-6) being marketed as “healthy”.
All I said was get an environmental inspection – which is still good advice. Unless the developer took down the walls and boiled every brick then re-built, I do not understand how they can get the mold (and other unmentionables) out of this structure.
Not everyone is trying to troll for a flame war on this site (you know who I mean). Sometimes people are just trying to help with a little extra knowledge.
“Because knowing is half the battle”
obviously it’s not done, but I fail to see how this can be saved – windows are awful – the whole thing looks terrible. really surprising
Manitoba + Knickerbocker,
I lived in withing 3-4 blocks of thus street for two stretches. From 1982 – 1985 and from 2003 – Present. In the early 1980s, it was kind of wild westy around there. If you lived their 10-12 years ago (1997-1999) it was cetainly better than you say, and if you’re describing the past 5-10 years, other than the traffic noise, your comments are absurd. My school age kids walk around there by themselves and don’t sound nearly as nervous as you guys.
I live very near 93 Nevins, and the negative comments frankly astonish me, except for the fact that there is a lot of foot and car traffic on north/south streets. Gunfire? Stabbings? Project zombie people? A “crap hole” (where homes sell for over $ million)? Wha? I walk my female around Pacific Street and Boerum Hill at all hours without anything more than the usual NYC vigilance. And I’ve lived here more than ten years.
Chuck is right that the building looks better in person than it does in the picture, so haters walk on by and please give an *informed* rant. The developers (who live with their children half a block down from this allegedly dangerous and practically SuperFund-ready toxic site) chose to keep the old facade to preserve context and history. I’m not sure it worked out the way they hoped, but their intentions were good. 93 Nevins has been a long-standing blight on the area, and they deserve full marks for wresting it away from the crazy guy who owned it (and strung along potential buyers) for years. And for developing it even though, evidently, there were problems along the way. Best wishes to them for successful sales.
Manitoba, Cookie still lives on the block and can usually be found sitting on his stoop in nice weather. It’s been hard times for him and his family. He’s had a stroke, his father died, and last I heard his mother was slowly, slowly dying from Alzheimer’s. Stop by, enjoy the beautiful (and safe) nabe, and say howdy to Cookie. I’m sure he’d be delighted to hear from you.
Well, garages come with them, so the inmates won’t be trekking from the subway late at night.
They are indeed 2 4-floor townhouses, with master bedrooms and decks on the top floor. Not my ideal layout, but would be fascinating to see the interiors. That said, the middle floor bedrooms are TINY (single beds shown) particularly on the right unit; stupid to have a hallway take space from that tiny bedroom just so you can get to the terrace directly.
Oddly, the floor plans for I & ground are reversed…maybe there’s an elevator to raise your car to the garage?
The developers put a lot of effort into “green”, including some state-of-the-art air-source heat pumps, which will reflect in the price.
It looked better with the scaffolding!
“more quieter” = “more quiet” or “quieter”