Gas-Station-Replacing Building on Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights Will Look Like This
Here’s the design for the big apartment building that will replace the BP gas station and car wash on a prominent Crown Heights corner, Bedford and Eastern Parkway. As you may recall, developer Adam America bought the property for $32,500,000 in January. The Issac and Stern-designed building will be rectangular with two setbacks, and clad in…
Here’s the design for the big apartment building that will replace the BP gas station and car wash on a prominent Crown Heights corner, Bedford and Eastern Parkway. As you may recall, developer Adam America bought the property for $32,500,000 in January.
The Issac and Stern-designed building will be rectangular with two setbacks, and clad in a combination of light and dark-colored brick. It will have eight stories, with ground-floor retail space that “meets the intersection at the same acute angle as its somewhat irregular lot,” according to YIMBY, which was the first to publish the renderings. It looks pretty similar to the building planned for the former Fox Savoy Theater site next door, which is also being designed by Issac and Stern.
The Issac and Stern-designed project at 1535 Bedford Avenue will have 133 apartments, 14,669 square feet of ground floor retail and 42 parking spots, as reported earlier this year. The new building will have a street address of 1519 Bedford.
Do you think this will be an improvement for the corner or will you miss the gas station and car wash?
Revealed: 1535 Bedford Avenue, Crown Heights [NYY]
Crown Heights Gas Station Sells for $32.5 Million, Eight-Story Building Planned [Brownstoner]
Another Adam America building…he doesn’t have the best track record.
I will miss the car wash and the gas station. But there are others in the area. This is a decent looking building and will lift the neighborhood. I like the retail on the ground floor and the stepped back look at the top. Let’s hope the real thing looks like the renders.
Thank you Captain America.
This will be an improvement for the corner, but we will get to a point where we need to make sure we don’t go too far. We can stop designing a city around cars, while still understanding some amount of cars will always be around.
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For instance, it’s getting to the point where left turns are being banned from all intersections on Atlantic Ave. I know there are pedestrian safety concerns with certain intersections like Vanderbilt and Washington, but by banning left turns at these major streets, you force all that traffic onto side streets to make a “pass the intersection, turn right, turn right, turn right” maneuver. Surely there’s a way we can allow left turns safely, without routing all that traffic onto adjacent side streets, and turning 1 left turn maneuver into 3 right turns.
That’s right – and “calming” traffic in this case causes congestion, which leads to more air pollution for all the folks who live in the area.
A buffer between cars and pedestrians is not necessary in places where drivers drive sanely. And double-parking DOES NOT increase pedestrian safety–in fact, it prevents the smooth, steady, safe flow of traffic, by encouraging/forcing lane changes, merges, and other aggressive behavior. Double-parking is not at all the same as safe street design.
Nina Simone – Tomorrow Is My Turn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFVAoIU8vTM
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Someday this war is gonna end…
Which has turned Bergen St. into a highway of Eastbound traffic needing to turn South somewhere between Vanderbilt and Court. Sure it makes Atlantic/Flatbush/4th safer, but what about the people on Bergen St, and every avenue it crosses?