House on north side of Bergen (btwn Vanderbilt/Underhill)

brookfetish · June 2007

It's gone!

Any info on this?

armchair_warrior · June 2007

huh got a house number?

brooklynleather · June 2007

no house number anymore!

brookfetish · June 2007

brooklynleather wrote: no house number anymore!

Bingo.

It's the house that was just in from the corner of Vanderbilt and and Bergen, to the east of the artists studios.

stacey · June 2007

That is the house that lulusmom found the kitten. There was an older woman who lived there forever. I know she always lived there (with an aunt or mother) and had some form of mental disability. As she got older it was harder and harder for her to take care of herself and I think her family has moved her into an assisted living facility.

brookfetish · June 2007

It went down fast!

caseopele · June 2007

I think it was 659 Bergen and that my landlord just sold it. According to the DOB site it looks like it was torn down to put up another ugly ass new building.

http://a810-bisweb.nyc.gov/bisweb/JobDetailsServlet?requestid=2&allisn=0001324706&allboroughname=&allnumbhous=&allstrt=

And here's the architects website:

http://www.kfarchitect.com/

I really hope I'm wrong about this. I absolutely cannot stand these new buildings, I think they're boxy and lacking in character. I always think that someone was playing with their kids Legos when they came up with the designs.

caseopele · June 2007

I just took a look at the architect's portfolio, why did Canada get the nicer buildings while NY is stuck with these cookie-cutter blocky ones? These buildings all look alike to me, no matter who the architect is.

ben · June 2007

Here's a link to the developer's website with a rendering of the building proposed for this site: http://www.oreinternational.com/cs_bergen.php

caseopele · June 2007

Yeah, that thing fits in really well in "a neighborhood of classic Brooklyn brownstones". :?

sje · June 2007

omg, not another one. The studio building is mine, and BTW, we have a recent, major influx of homeless bums now, living and drinking on the sidewalk in front of the construction lot, right next to our building, and also across the street in front of the other ugly building going up. Diversity is charming, isn't it?

armchair_warrior · June 2007

i happen to like modern buildings. I like the renderings.

/runs

armchair_warrior · June 2007

sje wrote: omg, not another one. The studio building is mine, and BTW, we have a recent, major influx of homeless bums now, living and drinking on the sidewalk in front of the construction lot, right next to our building, and also across the street in front of the other ugly building going up. Diversity is charming, isn't it?

get a anti bum spray!!

install sprinklers and watch bums run away. nm it would turn into a public shower.

carnivore · June 2007

I actually don't mind the look of the building in the rendering. But wtf, with "The desirability of Park Slope, just a few blocks away, has made [Prospect Heights] the fourth most exclusive in Brooklyn." I wonder how exactly they arrived at that figure...