Thursday, August 1, 2013

Crap in progress


From Brownstoner Queens:

In our personal opinion, it’s often the smaller new buildings that end up looking more out of context than the larger new developments. A case in point is this work-in-progress at 45-34 Pearson Street. Located on the same block as the definitely-not-Scarano development we covered last week, this project (DOB permit here) will squeeze an eight-story, 16-unit building onto a 2,500-square-foot lot between a couple of two-story houses. It’s hard to imagine how the 12,500-square-foot building won’t end up looking absurd. But the property has an FAR of 4.99, which is cat nip to an arbitraging developer.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Those look like wood frame buildings to me - is this a fire district?

Anonymous said...

Another job by a rubber-stamp architect. The engineer of record share the same address with the contractor, both located in the cellar of a building at 140-37 Cherry Ave. The same contractor which was fined by OSHA for $100G last year.

Anonymous said...

Turd Whirled