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Former laundry at 671 Franklin (near St Marks) returns to market — Brooklynian

Former laundry at 671 Franklin (near St Marks) returns to market

whynot_31
whynot_31
edited August 2014 in Crown Heights/Prospect Lefferts Gardens
According to management, it was last a functioning laundry 13 years ago.

Today, the orange machines were hauled away as scrap.

The space should be listed soon. There is a back garden.

671 Franklin Avenue

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  • ehgee
    ehgee
    Those hand-painted laundromat signs are pretty classic— there's a couple in Park Slope, too.

    I hope they realize that tearing out those tin ceilings would be a mistake.
  • xlizellx
    xlizellx
    I hope they keep the ceiling as well.

    I wonder what they'll do with the sign...Dutch Boy kept the old sign and put it inside their restaurant.  Maybe whatever is going in will use it similarly?
  • whynot_31
    whynot_31
    edited August 2014
    I don't know that there is a plan for the space yet.

    I agree, the sign would look pretty good in my workroom - man cave. If they are working on the space tomorrow, I'll ask them if I can have the small hanging sign.
  • newguy88
    newguy88
    I could see a bar/restaurant rocking the laundromat theme! 
  • rogers_sterling
    rogers_sterling
    Or how about a fun laundromat?? When I used to live in Burlington VT we had a place called "Suds and Duds" where you could drink and do your laundry.
  • Davina
    Davina
    I always dreamed about a nice library/cafe/laundromat. Wouldn't object to alcohol being served, either.
  • whynot_31
    whynot_31
    edited August 2014
    Hopefully the tenant living above the laundry left after filing all of these complaints:

    http://apartable.com/buildings/671-franklin-avenue-brooklyn

    I suspect the property has recently changed hands, and was delivered vacant. I wonder if the recent upzoning of Franklin Ave provides enough incentive to tear the building down and build something new, and relatively tall.

    Good bye tin ceilings?

  • laura palmer
    laura palmer
    hahaha that list of complaints is spectacular. I could see it making for great spoken word poetry. 
  • whynot_31
    whynot_31
    edited August 2014
    The second floor apartment appears vacant from the street:   no curtains, no lights at night, etc.

    It would be lousy to be the sole tenant of a building which is effectively abandoned.  

    I wonder if the tenant's complaints to HPD/DOB effectively forced the sale to a new entity.

    As a result of not being in a rent stabilized situation, the tenant's lease was probably simply not renewed.  ...the tenant was merely able to instill some pain on the landlord.

          
  • mugofmead111
    mugofmead111
    Why leave the washing machines there for 13 years but not  operate the laundromat?
  • whynot_31
    whynot_31
    Incompetence?

    Death of operator/owner?

    Two water and electric meters: The ones for the first floor shut off due to arrears/nonpayment?

    Note: My definition of "management" above consists of me asking the guy who was directing the scrapers "how long was it closed?" and him responding.
  • pragmaticguy
    pragmaticguy
    Many of these violations could be fixed with paint and plaster and the heat and hot water violations seemed to have been taken care of. One open violation was that the water temp was TOO hot so apparently the landlord was trying to take care of some of this. For all we know, the oil company didn't get paid or missed a delivery. Otherwise it appears that all these could be taken care of for less than $2500.
  • whynot_31
    whynot_31
    I agree, the complaints weren't that serious.

    These strike me as the types of complaints unhappy tenants file, when they are leaving and want to get back at a LL.
  • ehgee
    ehgee
    I wonder if the recent upzoning of Franklin Ave provides enough incentive to tear the building down and build something new, and relatively tall.

    Good bye tin ceilings?

    They might just build a 'building hat' a/k/a vertical extension rather than a whole new building.
  • whynot_31
    whynot_31
    That could work.      The building that has The Classon (located at St.Johns and Classon) did a similar thing:  

    2007-807-classon-ave_0
  • ehgee
    ehgee
    Same on the building next to Tooker Alley. Though very, very slowly.
  • eastbloc
    eastbloc
    I thought that building on Classon, despite appearances, was a completely new construction?

    I could be wrong.
  • eastbloc
    eastbloc
    By the way, I know tin ceilings are seen as fancy throwbacks, but at the time these buildings were constructed they were a very inexpensive way of finishing a space as an alternative to plaster.  

    Don't get me wrong, I'm a fan of tin.   I preserved it everywhere I could in my house, and even installed new tin in a few rooms, but from a conservation perspective, it's ubiquitous and not particularly valuable.
  • whynot_31
    whynot_31
    I thought that building on Classon, despite appearances, was a completely new construction?

    I could be wrong.
    The old building remains:

    "the corner lot had a three-story brick building, which remained and was incorporated into the new design"

    http://www.dunneandmarkis.com/projects/cm/cm807.html

    We will have to wait and see if 671 Franklin does something similar.

  • whynot_31
    whynot_31
    edited August 2014
    Based on the type of work I saw being done today:

    A. The building isn't being torn down.

    B. The storefront might become a laundry again.
  • whynot_31
    whynot_31
    edited September 2014
    B.

    671
  • rogers_sterling
    rogers_sterling
    Thank god. I really hate BNI. I hope they don't suck.
  • epiclylaterd
    epiclylaterd
    wish they kept the old signage, it was really cool.


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  • montREALady
    montREALady
    B.

    671
    I'm glad my photo was helpful here, lol. Very hard work to stop pushing a sleeping baby in a stroller to snap it, ha!
  • whynot_31
    whynot_31
    For the record, this photo was taken by montREALlady. I forgot to cite.
  • ehgee
    ehgee
    wish they kept the old signage, it was really cool.


    3-01224-0008.tCbIV0mp
    There are a couple laundromats on 5th Ave in Park Slope that have the same sign— there must have been a factory painting them somewhere back in the day.
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