From Scouting NY:Originally based in Manhattan, the Faber company moved to Greenpoint after a fire in 1872. Many of its former buildings can still be identified by the company emblem, a diamond-enclosed star…
There are sixteen terra cotta pencils in total on the Greenpoint Avenue building, which once housed the company’s offices. Today, it’s commercial loft space.
The original 1872 building is next door…
The actual former factory building is on adjacent Kent Street, and is apparently being gutted for condos.
Meanwhile, one former Faber building nearby is reaching the end of its condoization process. I can’t imagine a way those rooftop box things could look more completely out of place…
Worse, the Faber building is only half of the new “Pencil Factory Condos,” connecting with an absolutely hideous modern abomination best described as Ikea-chic. I mean, come on – does anyone out there see this and say, “Fuck yeah! I wanna live in THAT!”I don’t get developers. They fight tooth and nail to tear down/gut/ruin amazing properties in favor of ugly modern apartment buildings like the one above, only to then go and use the history as a primary selling point.
Sick business.
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And the few who move into these ugly boxes dont even spend time or money in Greenpoint so it has been said. They drive to Manhattan to go to their foodie socials.
You're missing the point. These parasites build these things for TRANSPLANTED TRUST FUND REPUBLICANS, so they can keep Bloomberg in power, NOT FOR NATIVE NEW YORKERS WHO VOTED AGAINST HIM, AND TERM LIMITS.
You can't blame Bush for Bloomberg. "Native" New Yorkers, who are overwhelmingly Democratic, elected "Independent" Bloomberg in 2009.
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