Wednesday, August 10, 2016

Ridgewood: Where anything goes!

Feast your eyes on this monstrosity. This is 482 Seneca Avenue in Ridgewood. It actually is turning out to be less hideous than originally planned. Those bay windows are special.
This is an "ALT-1" job (note the piece of original wall at ground level). I was amused by the sandwiching of a mezzanine between the 4th floor and the roof (not allowed), but listed on the Schedule A as between the 1st and 2nd floors. It's also clearly a 5 floor building instead of 4 as listed on the permit.

13 comments:

Roger said...

And people line up to rent in these monstrosities!

Anonymous said...

Isn't that the mezzanine on the right side where there is wood and with a large window above it?

Queens Crapper said...

The "mezzanine" is "UPPER PART OF DWELLING UNITS IN CONJUNCTION WITH 4TH FLOOR."

I'd call that a 5th floor, which is not part of the plans. You can't have a mezzanine between the top floor and the roof.

JQ LLC said...

Bay windows, what is this Malibu and Miami?

And these hack designers and developers sure love that grey feces color.

http://animalnewyork.com/2013/top-10-bushwick-condos-2013/

And an over-capacity party ready mezzanine to boot to. Just like that one in that landmarked building in Bushwick from a few months ago...


http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/second-story-deck-collapse-brooklyn-injures-13-people-article-1.2661701

I wish I had the delusional optimism these fucking fucks and the hipshits they are marketing to have.

Anonymous said...

Love the landscaping! NYC is just getting uglier and uglier!

Anonymous said...

there is still an open unpaid violation for this job.
$4k

i cant wait to leave NYC. Blaz and the hipsters are ruining NYC.

Anonymous said...

No surprise...Maspeth, Middle Village, Glendale are considered the dumping ground for any kind of shit that would be TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE in posh, leafy green northeast Queens.
Hey...NYC, with the aid of its crooked politicians...see that these nabes are crapped up but will never touch Douglaston!
Oops....I left out College point....south of 14th Avenue...which is another shit hole. Don't touch Malba with crap. The mob lives there in their Italianate villas.

Anonymous said...

How many people will live in this box and what will happen to already impossible parking ? All them windows, what is that 10 micro apartments per floor ?

Anonymous said...

The bay windows make it look like the building has pimples ... or an allergic reaction to bad design.

(sarc) said...

Anon
"...what will happen to already impossible parking ?"

I am most certain here will be a beautiful bicycle rack mounted in the front of this fine apartment building, no doubt paid for with your tax dollars...

Anonymous said...

It is right next door to a funeral home. Who wants to live there with that kind of depressing view?

(sarc) said...

The neighbors are quiet...

Anonymous said...

That building is pretty hideous, but the two neighboring buildings we can see in the photos are even uglier, and much blander.

Surprised at the commentator hating on the bay windows, as if a flat building is somehow less horrid, not more.