Development Watch: 185 Ocean Encroaching
Work only started up at 185 Ocean Avenue last month but there’s already another round of controversy brewing. Number 185 shares the driveway with the existing building at Number 189; the entrance is shared and then the rear area is split down the middle. And we hear that the owners of 189 (yes, the same…
Work only started up at 185 Ocean Avenue last month but there’s already another round of controversy brewing. Number 185 shares the driveway with the existing building at Number 189; the entrance is shared and then the rear area is split down the middle. And we hear that the owners of 189 (yes, the same ones who tried to wriggle out of the landmarking at the last minute) are more than a little un-neighborly when it comes to the driveway. (According to one account, they blocked the cable repair guys from using the driveway to reach a cable box on the building next door when the cable service was out for the whole neighborhood. Pleasant.) They’ve also been trying to sell the house since early 2008, starting at a price of $2,300,000 and, most recently, getting down to $999,000 last summer. Well, it’s too bad it had to come in the form of hideous, out-of-context development, but it appears that, in this case, karma is indeed a bitch.
185 Ocean Avenue Starts Back Up [Brownstoner]
185 Ocean Avenue Still Sucking Wind [Brownstoner] GMAP
Karma Is a Bitch: 185 Ocean Developer Sucking Wind [Brownstoner]
PLG House Razed, 8-Story Building Planned [Brownstoner]
Ocean’s 13: Landmarking Against a Ticking Time Bomb [Brownstoner]
PLG Shocker! 185 Ocean Closes 33% Above Ask [Brownstoner]
This article is really inappropriate and slanderous. Even if your facts are straight, there is probably another side to the story. It’s kinda embarrassing to watch an influential blog (that poses as an authority) pick on an individual private homeowner just for trying to sell their house when the market was up. More than embarrassing, it’s a little sick and twisted.
Frankly, I’m getting tired of this site’s hostility towards individual homeowners while at the same time incessantly plugging Toren condo and Oro and all those other big developments, assumably for big profits. Who’s really being greedy, Mr. B? Perhaps karma hasn’t worked its way around to you yet.
Areakids, every time you post about missing out on #185, my heart breaks! I’m sure I speak for all the neighbors when I say we much rather would have preferred to have you join us on the row, keeping #185 as the cute little house it was, instead of inheriting this idiot developer with a wrecking ball! It’s beyond painful to watch the high-rise monstrosity that is now going up on that lot.
185 Ocean was supposed to be mine…..I signed the contract then the sellers changed their mind and sold to the developer for 200,000 more than my accepted offer!
I was going to keep the house cute like it was! It was a little diamond in the rough. Totally cute.
It is painful to see the monstrosity it is turning into as it was so adorable before it was wrecked.
SAD SAD SAD!
Isn’t half of that driveway in the landmarked district? How can that even fly?
Yes, yes, and sadly, yes!
Maly: Yes, that cantilever over the shared driveway is rather pyschotic. Already you can see how much it blocks light and air. Sigh. Not sure how they are planning to build up — e.g., whether they are planning on running terraces on the driveway side or street side or whether building access will be by way of the street or driveway side. My hunch is that the entrance will be on the driveway side and that cars will enter that area for drop offs/pick-ups on that. (Although fuhgeddabout turn-arounds in that space!)
Flatbushman23: Yes, it is.
Slick: Yes, that’s so.
It was my understanding that the former owners of 185 ocean sold in no small part due to their neighbor.
Wow… That’s insane :-).
Is that a cantilever over the shared driveway? For the love of god!! That’s not bitchy, that’s psychotic.