Coming soon to a streetscape near you?

From Brownstoner:

Another building is set to sprout up on 4th Avenue in Park Slope.

Renderings spotted outside 269 4th Avenue display a 12-story u-shaped building, with what might be an open courtyard on the ground level.

The most striking feature are two twin cantilevered sections on the top five floors, which loom over the three-story building next door at 265 4th Avenue. The top four floors appear to have balconies, and there will be additional rooftop recreation space open to all residential tenants, according to a permit application filed with the Department of Buildings.

Is this really the direction we want architecture to go in?

Oversized crap coming to Richmond Hill

From Queensbeans:

A new residential building is coming to Richmond Hill, a Queens neighborhood. The tower will be addressed at 93-13 112th Street and will feature six stories. The site is located around the corner from Atlantic Avenue, which serves as a connection between Queens and Brooklyn. Six blocks from the site there is the 111th Street subway station, which is serviced by the J trains.

The developer is Gorden Tan, whereas Peninsula MEP LLC will be handling the design. The area is famous for its Queen Anne and Victorian structures, so the design of this particular building will be something that will get people talking, whatever direction the architects decide to go.

They destroyed paradise to put this up

Followup on previous Queens Crap post from 2014.

Above photo was before. Bottom photo is now.

You can judge for yourself whether or not this improves the neighborhood the way the alleged owner claimed he would in the comments section last time around.

Long Island fears becoming Queens

From Crains:

“A surprising solution for city’s housing dilemma” (May 4) correctly addresses a growing regional cohesion forming across Nassau and Suffolk counties concerning transit-oriented projects. The issue, however, is that the transit-oriented approach isn’t a one-size-fits-all solution. Each Long Island Rail Road station and downtown that surrounds it has a variety of factors and infrastructure limitations—beyond a NIMBY mentality that fears "Queensification" — that prevent the allowance of density.

Long Island’s locally sourced zoning is in place thanks to our area’s reliance upon a sole-source aquifer system that provides our drinking water and limited wastewater treatment options. Density is being increased in areas that can handle such growth and kept to a minimum in places where our antiquated roads and cesspools cannot mitigate against the impacts of development.

Long Island historically has fueled city growth by providing suburban living and an educated workforce. By thinking regionally, we can cohesively deal with our affordable-housing shortage, but we must respect the factors that make Nassau and Suffolk both challenging to develop in and appealing to their residents.

Rich Murdocco
Syosset, N.Y.

Isn't it comforting to know that there's a term called "Queensification" that basically means "crap"? And it dates at least as far back to 2005...
We all know exactly what it means, and this person unfortunately nailed it.

Take your best guess

I wonder what caught the Courier photographer's eye here?

Queenscape of the week

Brownstoner Queens featured this photo above a bunch of links yesterday.

This is such a perfect photo to represent what's become of this borough, don't you think? A street tree being destroyed in front of a wide load of crap.

Who wouldn't want to raise a family here?

Gorgeous Linden Place in Flushing.

What's the matter with us?

I love my borough, but it's as if we've lost our identity. I just finished reviewing a website dedicated to Brooklyn. The site was filled with photographed celebrities with Brooklyn backgrounds, and native Brooklynites in Brooklyn expressing their love for, and experiences within the Borough. They discuss the culture, architecture, history, feel etc.

Then I look at the photographs I pasted in this email, and the answer is clear.

We sold our borough out, and have no identity, we let over development destroy the character and pride of our communities, our elected members sat back while the identity was of our bridge was stolen as well.

I'm writing this on my cell phone while at work, and I have to be brief;

Queens: where's your pride? - Jamaal Harris

What's the matter with us?

"I love my borough, but it's as if we've lost our identity. I just finished reviewing a website dedicated to Brooklyn. The site was filled with photographed celebrities with Brooklyn backgrounds, and native Brooklynites in Brooklyn expressing their love for, and experiences within the Borough. They discuss the culture, architecture, history, feel etc.

Then I look at the photographs I pasted in this email, and the answer is clear.

We sold our borough out, and have no identity, we let over development destroy the character and pride of our communities, our elected members sat back while the identity was of our bridge was stolen as well.

I'm writing this on my cell phone while at work, and I have to be brief;

Queens: where's your pride?" - Jamaal Harris

The epitome of crapitecture

This photo from Brownstoner kind of sums up construction in the outer borough under Bloomberg:

How contextual!

Piled high and deep off Ditmars

21-60 33rd Street.
A bunch of 2-story buildings were torn down to make way for this. What it will end up being, I am not sure.
It says all this, which adds up to 21 residential units, but then there's this from City Planning's map, which says 28 residential units:

Guess we'll just have to wait and see!

A crap above: Astoria edition

Here we are at the corner of 37th Street and Astoria Blvd South. Looks like a 2-story commercial/residential combo.
And this is what it looks like now. DOB shows the work being done to 37-02 Astoria Blvd South will add 4 stories and convert it into some kind of medical building. Yeah, okay.
Last month, they received DOB and ECB violations for work not conforming to approved plans. Yet there's no stop work order presently in effect. What a surprise!
Previously, they actually violated a stop work order.

I'm sure our future district attorney/borough president is on top of this one.

Ugly list fails to include real crapitecture

So the Daily News has a list of the Top Ten Ugliest Buildings in NYC as compiled by the AIA. They failed to include any in the Queens Crapitecture style. Walk down your average outer borough street and you can't miss them. They're all more offensive than anything on this list by far.