Saturday, January 10, 2015

Bed-Stuy building gets crappified

From Brownstoner:

Take, for example, this two-story Neo-Grec with a bay window at 580 MacDonough Street, close to Ralph Avenue. If you click through to see the rendering on the construction fence, you will see that the owners are planning to add one more story and completely redo the facade so it looks like a modern “Fedders”-type building.

It’s unfortunate for the block and, we think, a wasted opportunity. The developer could have kept the original facade and maximized FAR with a setback. And not only that, if he had, the house would be more valuable and he would reap a bigger profit, we bet.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thumbs DOWN,

Anonymous said...

More shit !

JQ suis charlie said...

is that a balcony,the views of the asphalt must be breathtaking

Anonymous said...

That place is still a shithole.Too many housing projectsaround there........

Anonymous said...

Anon no. 4: Some of it is, no question. A lot of it is made up of brownstones and town houses, so you can imagine what's happening with them. Go take a look.

Anonymous said...

This is just totally unnecessary! Do any homeowners/developers/contractors or architects pick up a magazine or follow social media to realize the trends are antique, rustic, vintage and classic??! Apparently not in NYC. NYC neighborhoods are becoming characterless and botchy looking.

Anonymous said...

It's all about the rentable square footage and the ability to create the single room occupancy experience as many as possible.

Dirk Diggler said...

If it ain't landmarked it'll get fucked up. And this is a cluster fuck!