Interesting Building on 3rd Avenue
A reader sent this photo of this building on 3rd Avenue at 25th Street in Sunset Park with a brief note saying, “Interesting Building.” We’d agree. Anyone know anything about it? GMAP
A reader sent this photo of this building on 3rd Avenue at 25th Street in Sunset Park with a brief note saying, “Interesting Building.” We’d agree. Anyone know anything about it? GMAP
Apologies to Brenda, sort of, as I did not mean to “go off” on any individual. I would like to ask, however, how long most of the people here would let this area of Sunset Park be called
crap
drek
& now “surrelly disgusting”
without comment or context? Or should we eliminate blue collar Brooklyn totally, or keep it out of site enough that your refined late 19th century aesthetic is not offended? Speaking of which, there are, miraculously, still some amazing buildings down there, but you will not read about them here, just as you will not read of a single Brooklyn “Latino” cultural event… ever?
I know this is an overwhelmingly white blog, and largely affluent as well but consider the language you use and what, by your own admissions, you don’t know. There are a lot of people who live ON 3rd Avenue who very well know that their homes (or businesses) are not the nicest but maybe that is what they can afford or where they are from or where they can make a living, etc. Considering the overwhelming silence from “Brownstone” Brooklyn regarding any Sunset Park issue except ugly condos (which I too revile), please forgive me for being a little sensitive and also challenging what I must say appear very narrow cultural perspectives.
There are historic reasons for why 3rd Avenue is the way it is, of course. Reading “The Power Broker” is only a start but at least it is a start.
Donatella: I’ll admit, I’m squeamish in live meat markets too but that’s what a lot of people love. Unless you are a vegan– and even then only if you distance yourself from the physical realities of growing, harvesting and transporting your dinner– food is an often messy business. (But damn that halal goat tastes good.)
Lisa
PS regarding the prison, I ask this as plainly as possible: how could you not know this? Even if you perhaps did not live in pre-9/11 Brooklyn, eventually the outrages there were reported by the Voice and The Washington Post. If you– as I imagine almost everyone here is– are against the war, I’d hope Brooklyn’s parts in it would be of some interest, even if the Real Estate Times could not– and can not– be bothered.
PS2 brothels in Brooklyn? Say it ain’t so! Truth: my brother is a cop with Brooklyn North, and there are brothels all over the borough, including many of the “Brownstone” ones we hold dear.
Ditto on Sterling Silver’s comment, Lisa. I like the fruit place, which has amazing prices on everything. I DON’T like the nearby chicken place, which is surreally disgusting.
I used to work around the corner from here at a clothing mfg company
lisa is right the area is filled with sweatshops and that fruit stand is disgusting. there are rats the size of
cats all over the place, you risk your life crossing 3rd ave, and the live chicken halal place leaves a stench on a hot day that could kill you.
otherwise it is great!
did i mention the many whorehouses in the area or the peep show place and liquor store directly across the street?
Uh, Lisa, of all of the people who post regularly with names, around here, bren and Brenda are among those who would most likely be on the front lines with you.
I’m with ya too, but I think you waayyy overreacted, as well. I, for one, am not in any way familiar with the area, and don’t know anything about the industries, or for that matter, detention centers, in the area. Please enlighten us, but you don’t have to beat us up in the process.
Lisa…..that was certainly an overreaction. A worthy rant but not to Brenda’s post.
The address to this building is 760 3rd avenue (tax block 653 lot 72) – you can confirm this info via propertyshark.com just need to register your email address and setup an user password to get the freebe report. If you look on the NYC Dpt of Building’s Buildings Information System (http://www.nyc.gov/html/dob/html/bis/bis.shtml) you will find a CO from 1946 listing it as one level for “light mfg. (ladies wear)” and the other as one family: http://a810-cofo.nyc.gov/cofo/B/000/113000/B000113898.PDF
I’ve often wondered about this building. It looks tome like it might be a former fire house.
Um, yes, Lisa. I think I’ll return to planet earth now. Smoke was coming out of my computer with your post.
What is “drek” or better yet what’s “crap,” Brenda? Do you want to invest in
“fine” architecture, however defined, for utilitarian small industry?
Do you work with UNITE to improve conditions for the sweatshop workers nearby? Did you protest the detainment of Brooklyn Pakistanis and others at the prison a few blocks down after 9/11? Have you done anything to promote the construction of a tunnel to replace the BQE from the Verrazano to the Battery?
In a larger sense, where do you think your food comes from anyway, or your car parts, or your clothes, if not “Green-wood Heights,” (good one 11:48) then generally.
The class biases, and vast ignorance of some people here is truly
astounding.