Development Watch: Dikeman Doubleshot
Dikeman Street in Red Hook ain’t gonna win any beauty contests anytime soon but that’s not stopping developers from rehabbing an existing structure at Number 87 and building another at Numbers 81 and 83. The plan at 87 Dikeman, according to DOB filings, is to “renovate existing two-family dwelling with new partitions, flooring, windows, plumbing,…
Dikeman Street in Red Hook ain’t gonna win any beauty contests anytime soon but that’s not stopping developers from rehabbing an existing structure at Number 87 and building another at Numbers 81 and 83. The plan at 87 Dikeman, according to DOB filings, is to “renovate existing two-family dwelling with new partitions, flooring, windows, plumbing, mechanical ventilation and enlargement.” At 81/83, the developer has combined two lots and is erecting a 5,200-square-foot residential building.
87 Dikeman: GMAP P*Shark
81-83 Dikeman: GMAP P*Shark
New Yorkers are out their minds paying more than 1/2 million for those Brownstones on Dikeman Street. The crack has never left. If you don’t think so, take a walk in the Projects at night. Hey, why don’t you make a left on the corner of 21 Dikeman Street. Yes there is a Bodega. No where in all of New York would the Board of health allow such a store to exist. It would be closed within an hour. Schools – pitiful. You must travel to Brooklyn, Heights to educate your children in challenging and safe environment. Was it fun growing up in Red Hook, yes. Fire Hydrants with children laughing, the red hook pool and soccer. I remember those days. But I also remember never being allowed to stand at the Bus stop alone and it still applies. Even as an adult. By the way, did anyone talk about the lead and asbestos in these old buildings?? That’s right, they hire us minorities to do the clean up without anyone knowing….Deaf ears and blind eyes…
Fair ‘nuf. We should have said “This stretch of Dikeman Street…” So send us a couple of photos and a paragraph on what you think is aesthetically redeeming about Dikeman and we’ll run it…
No, but you did make a blanket statement about all of Dikeman Street that’s unfounded and belies a certain carelessness, ignorance, or arrogance depending on how you choose to look at it that’s frustrating to residents who live here and feel like their community is being misrepresented on your site by its own founder. When someone who’s running a piece of media and in charge of its editorial content (and I speak here as a professional editor) makes an unchecked assertion like that, it can be a little hard for people to swallow.
Anon 3:28,
We’re not picking on RH. We have celebrated what’s wonderful about its architecture on many occasions. Don’t see any reason why we should hold back when discussing this kind of mediocrity.
It seems as if the No Parking signs have also been added on the other side of Van Brunt, by the Stop One Supermarket. The city must be facilitating the tractor trailer turns onto Wolcott Street that have always been so death defying. And yes, Dikeman, certainly between Dwight and Richards, is quite a lovely block, containing some of the most beautiful row houses in all of Red Hook.
Hey Brownie,
Quit picking on Red Hook already? For a neighborhood on the verge of a apocalypse not too long – pick your poison: crack, gang wars, waste transfer stations, a slain principal and yes, even heavy handed threats of eminent domain by the PA – Red Hook is a fucking Phoenix. In my mind, your snide comments about RH are like making fun of a cleft palate victim after extensive plastic surgery. Red Hook ain’t ever gonna look like the rest of the Brownstone Belt. So what?
unrelated but does anyone know anything about the new NO STANDING parking sign on Van Brunt between Dikeman + Wolcott? It wasn’t there last night and now I can’t park on this side of the street at all? It doesn’t make any sense.
What exactly is the point of this post? You can’t swing a dead cat without hitting a building that’s being rehabbed in Red Hook–whether it’s on a so-called beauty-contest winning block or not. If you want to put up something truly informative about the neighborhood why don’t you try and get some of those rehabbers to talk about why they’re investing here. And, not for nothing, but there are some sweet stretches of preserverd rowhouses on Dikeman, some of the few original ones left.