Horror Show Friday
We were going to pull together three different places to feature in this edition of Horror Show Friday but this place seemed to be able to stand on its own. Fittingly, the broker manages to reach new depths of illiteracy as well. $529000 Amazing luxury 2 family [Craigslist]
We were going to pull together three different places to feature in this edition of Horror Show Friday but this place seemed to be able to stand on its own. Fittingly, the broker manages to reach new depths of illiteracy as well.
$529000 Amazing luxury 2 family [Craigslist]
Sorry, I meant Probably cared about the project they constructed. Sorry, but this topic hits a spot for me because I was a house hunter (on hold). And knowing that what we can comfortable afford (affordable housing) without having to fix it up, in an area I would like to live in, really peeves me so see this type of construction. Benson, this is not an attack on you from me, but an attack on this particular construcion.
Montrose you are right… Alexandria VA and Georgetown in DC have these committees that protect the historic areas. Trash like this would never be built there. I am all for a committee that approves new buildings going up
benson, let the pastor thing go. i know it bugs you, but raising it in unrelated contexts is exactly the sort of personal tangent that you (and i and many others) find distasteful on this site.
Wow – I’m under fire!
Some quick responses, as I’ve got alot of work to do too:
Bxgrl: perhaps this is a matter of values, but in my book what BRG did was reprehensible. Certainly good people can disagree about the course the pastor took, in terms of “dialogue” with the community. To accuse the pastor in a public forum of lining his private pockets is the equivalent of a witchhunt. I have no use for anybody who plays such dirty pool. The reason I called Montrose on this is that I expect more from her.
Montrose: I bring this topic up on this thread because you never responded to it.
BRG: I am not responding to you, for the reasons discussed.
Slopefarm: point taken. I can’t explain these types of homes,either. I’m very familiar with the block you mention,as I live not too far away. I’m more familiar with the set-back type of fedder home, with a driveway in front.
Brooklyn 816: these homes ARE built to sell. Until the economy tanked, they were selling.
DIBS: I’ve said it before: I find these homes to be ugly, and I agree that they do nothing for an area. Having said that, I find it more fearful to impose some type of taste regulation on private development. It will bring development in this city to a screeching halt.
Folks treat these homes as some type of permanent scourge on their area. Not so. They simply reflect the market for a particular area at the current time. I am hopeful that Brooklyn’s prospects will continue to imporve. If this happens, these cheap homes will be bought by developers and either upgraded or torn down. In such a case, everyone wins: the owner, the developer and the neighborhood.
Gotta go!
I have seen these photos many times before. I thought it was for a rental in Bushwick. Hm.
Unfortunately, the architecture is about on par with the grammar. But it could be a lot worse, actually. Sadly.
Unfortunately, as I love a good discussion, I have to meet with clients for the better part of the afternoon. Benson, I’ll be back, and will look at the link, although I don’t see its relevance to this thread. This is all good stuff, however. Later.
Montrose Morris, etc, etc
benson- be that as it may, I think we’ve seen enough evasions of the code to know that many developers have circumvented it, bribed inspectors or simply ignored it. The past 2 years have been more than filled with stories about the DOB and the construction industry. I’m sitting in a restaurant watching them put up a building on Fulton St. I’m not an architect, I’m not a developer but even an ignorant citizen such as myself could clearly see that the construction was not being done based on any construction I’ve ever seen. (I did study civil engineering post grad)
And the guys they had doing the work didn’t even have hardhats or masks. So tough building code or not, there’s a lot that gets built that is not up to code.
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Benson…we’re going to rehash that?????
You are truly a piece of work.
Why don’t you give her the rest of it.
Montrose, Benson and I continued this conversation in this thread.
http://bstoner.wpengine.com/brownstoner/archives/2008/12/friday_links_153.php#comments
Benson, you never got back to me in the above post. I was truly disappointed.
Take it up with the right people, you schlock! Don’t bring Montrose into your petty bullshit.
Benson,
I am not trying to pick a fight but to explore the point, but if you are right, I have a hard time understanding why so many break the facade line going forward rather than back. So often, new infill construction puts existing facades into the shadows. The house shown above breaks forward rather than back. I see lots of 3-4 story infill in the South Slope with no driveways and no discernible relation to the block. Just take a casual stroll down 12th between 6th and 7th and you will see what I mean (not that that is a particularly harmoniuos block arhcitecturally to begin with, but the infill made it worse, when it could have made it better).