270 Greene Avenue: Not a Good Looking Building
When we first wrote about 270 Greene Avenue near the eastern edge of Clinton Hill over a year ago, one commenter had this to say: This project in particular scares me. It’s prime real estate really, just happens to lie one block out of the historic district. I go by it everyday and have a…
When we first wrote about 270 Greene Avenue near the eastern edge of Clinton Hill over a year ago, one commenter had this to say:
This project in particular scares me. It’s prime real estate really, just happens to lie one block out of the historic district. I go by it everyday and have a number of reasons for thinking its another cheapo. Hope i’m wrong.
Now that the building’s nearing completion, it’s fair to say that the commenter was not wrong. What a bummer.
Development Watch: 270 Greene Avenue [Brownstoner] GMAP P*Shark DOB
can anyone tell me what recourse residents have to stop these lame projects from being built? Is there enough community cohesion to petition for developers’ corporate licenses to be revoked? Can;t we pressure City Council members to enforce certain standards for new development? Scarano is just one example, and this buildign above also seems beyond the pale in terms of responsible, competent design. These people are demonstrably not working for the benefit of the districts they operate in. What does it take to get the city to revoke their corporate license?
Two more words
Lego Land
My buddy is a regional manager at WAMU and couldn’t get a mortgage through them (well, they didn’t turn him down but they made him jump through all these hoops ’til he said ‘fuck it’). He had to play his military card but still ended up getting his mortgage through another bank. Shit is really fucked up right now.
WAMU CLOSING BROKER!
http://www.nypost.com/seven/12062007/business/wamu_closing_broker_45521.htm
Boy the shit is getting good! If you hear someone laughing their asses off, that’s me!
The What
Someday this war is gonna end…….
hey it looks like a bigger version of the thing down the street! obviously, someone has a vision for that block.
No, this really does look like something from the Gaza Strip.
And people are right to think of Brooklyn when they see something ugly. most of brooklyn is really, really ugly. even the pretty sections have ugly bits.
Don’t ask me why people are paying so much to live here. It ain’t the aesthetics.
compared to what’s been there for the last thirty odd years this is great. this block is the weak link. it is the clearest site of division between bs and ch. this is an improvement. now, paint that bus stop wall!
Rehab is advocating summary capital punishment for crimes of aesthetics. Let the revolution begin!
This is an ugly building. Is there anything else to really discuss?
People always make some ‘gaza strip’ reference which seems at best culturally misguided. There are probably more buildings like this in brooklyn now than there are in the middle east.
No different than people around the world point at the things they think are ugly and saying “Looks like Brooklyn!”