Last relic of the old 5th Ave....

heresparkslope wrote: It's the last crumbling, uninhabitable building on Fifth Avenue in the Slope, but not for much longer. #391, part of a cluster of poorly maintained buildings on Fifth between Sixth and Seventh Streets, is in the process of being gutted, and a worker on the site told me that it's being fixed up and revamped, with plans to bring in a retail tenant.

We took a look at this building in 1959 a couple Thursdays ago, back when it was home to a mattress shop. It's nice to see that the owner, Chiu-Kun Wu, realized that he could make a lot more money by fixing up the decrepit building than by letting it slowly rot.

brownstoner wrote: The squat red building next to the American Legion outpost on 5th Avenue between 6th and 7th streets has been left to rot for a very long time, but Here’s Park Slope reports that the property is finally getting some TLC. According to the blog, the building is being gutted and its ground-floor space is being prepped for a retail tenant. The building was notable for being a throwback to a seedier era on 5th Avenue and for the messages written in chalk that adorned its doorway, such as “This is Not a Toilet.”

http://www.brownstoner.com/blog/2011/12/park-slope-eyesore-getting-fixed-up/#disqus_thread