580 Carroll Decision Postponed
Getting tired of hearing about the battle over the Enrique Norten-designed project on Carroll Street? You’re in luck: At its hearing on the matter yesterday the BSA postponed its decision on the developer’s request for a variance and will hold another hearing September 15th. Johnny Werbe, one of the 13 residents who showed up at…
Getting tired of hearing about the battle over the Enrique Norten-designed project on Carroll Street? You’re in luck: At its hearing on the matter yesterday the BSA postponed its decision on the developer’s request for a variance and will hold another hearing September 15th. Johnny Werbe, one of the 13 residents who showed up at hearing yesterday, had the following to say: “They postponed their decision to give the developers more time to present a more persuasive case… [The BSA] kept raising the objection that the basis for their hardship claims had really not much to do with the building they are currently constructing.” Score one for the pissed off neighbors? We’ll have to wait til September to find out!
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The guy’s construction methods leave rather a lot to be desired, particularly the wooden railings at the site, which went all over the place during the high winds the other day, and my sympathies to the property owners whose homes have been damaged.
But it’s not as if there haven’t been multiple huge buildings on both Carroll and Garfield, both at the 4th Ave end of the block (huge ugly post-Scarano monoliths) and a little way up the blocks (moderately ugly 5-story buildings). Fretting over the loss of a quiet brownstone block is probably too little, too late.
If the opponents win, do they imagine that the hapless Mr. Verma is simply going to soldier on with a lower rate of return or more likely leave a little abandoned mini-me half-completed shell to go with the Doctor Evil that is 255 Fourth Avenue (and on which work appears to have stopped). That said, if opposition of this type has ever got a building torn down, please correct me.