Heinous Bricks Confirmed at 324 Grand Avenue
As we feared, it’s looking like 324 Grand Avenue is going to be as tough on the eyes as its older sister across the street. Quel bummer! Development Watch: 324-328 Grand Avenue [Brownstoner] 324 Grand Avenue Status Check [Brownstoner] GMAP SWO for 324 Grand Avenue [Brownstoner] P*Shark DOB Development Watch: 328 Grand Avenue [Brownstoner] 328…
As we feared, it’s looking like 324 Grand Avenue is going to be as tough on the eyes as its older sister across the street. Quel bummer!
Development Watch: 324-328 Grand Avenue [Brownstoner]
324 Grand Avenue Status Check [Brownstoner] GMAP
SWO for 324 Grand Avenue [Brownstoner] P*Shark DOB
Development Watch: 328 Grand Avenue [Brownstoner]
328 Grand: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow [Brownstoner]
Razing 328 Grand: What a Waste [Brownstoner]
Yeah, there is one of these grey/red brick buildings on Grand near Greene. Super unattractive and another one on corner of Clermont Avenue and Willowby. I wondered what the story with these was. My thinking is if you are going to go through the mind-frying exercise of gut renovating a house inside and outside, why choose something so ugly.
seriously?? lol wtf do yall really care about what brick they use? hilarious!! get a life people. that block used to look a lot worse. were any of you living here when across the street from that site was just an ugly, empty lot? thought so. most people who are actually FROM the neighborhood welcome the change.
pechas- none of us is a hater or out to bash anything. that’s your line, not ours. I find it pretty funny that you’re calling people haters and bashers because we stated a brick preference. That’s more than a little ridiculous
Not buying it. This is another example of a developer who completely lacks any taste or concern for aesthetics (although at least his windows line up). No way around it. And no excuse for it.
Pechas = developer?
uh brownstoner? Have you ever been in the old 328? I have. It was a dump. Trust me, it wasn’t worth saving even if it could be saved.
And just because the other places on the street look like they’re holding their own doesn’t mean they are. You’re welcome inside mine anytime and I’ll show you exactly what brownstoners are really made of.
Which is NOT to say I don’t love my neighborhood and my home and everything else I grew up with. Just saying that not necessarily is everything new, bad.
And in 2150 we’ll all be dead. Who gives a damn?
First of all, this is not better than what was there; there was an attractive old warehouse structure there that a creative developer could have built on top of. Second of all, how Pechas can say this is better constructed than other stuff on the street is silly. There are plenty of 19th century brownstones a stone’s throw from this building that are still holding their own. Wonder if we’ll be able to say the same thing for this place in, oh, say, the year 2150.
Fine bxgrl.
I DO live there. I don’t say I love it. Just can’t stand the haters out to bash everything cos they’re morons with nothing better to do.
And furthermore- I have no problem with anyone doing anyhting to improve a neighborhood. Its needed. And I’m glad to hear it’s better constructed than most on the block- doesn’t mean the people who buy or rent there should be paying for shoddy construction.
There was a very beautiful, large apartment building that went up in the Bronx near where i used to live. “luxury” they said. Construction was concrete, and cinderblock. Within a year they had major water damage problems and rain would just literally ooze through the walls. That was only one of the major problems. It’s now low/mid income rental. Which itself is a sad commentary on us as well. That poor and working poor people should get to live in crap housing.