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May 17, 2005
New Construction on Flatbush
think they'll move that Pam Grier billboard?
This is perhaps the newest building to go up on Flatbush (the section I care about - the slow climb leading to Grand Army Plaza), since that arrogant dump that houses Applebees, in Downtown Brooklyn, rose in the 1980's. Its the newest residential building, east of Prospect Park, Flatbush has witnessed in at least a generation. This portion of Flatbush is a commercial strip I'm extremely fond of, and use quite often, architectually it has some of the finest gems Brooklyn has to offer, along with some real hideous sliders. The surrounding blocks are filled with some of the Best 19th century rowhouses in America, along with downtowns faded Dept store glories led off Flatbush to Fulton Mall. Flatbush meets all of its intersecting streets at an angle, creating quite the show for buildings that line up the Ave. Flatbush even boasts 2 two beautiful street clocks. So, with a watchful gaze, 145 Park Place has been rising - across the street from City Lighting - and in the heat of reinvigorated Flatbush (its proximity to 7th Ave is not lost on the choice of this site).
Architects Lauster & Radu used an existing brick frontage on Park Place, and built out the Flatbush frontage, creating some serious angles. Honestly, the renderings are, well, I'm reluctant to comment too honestly... But, the brick work on Park Place is looking interesting, and I'm trying to stay positive about new construction in this part of Brooklyn - staying hopeful... Here are some very recent photos I snapped of the construction, which doesn't say much with all the scaffolding, but the peaks I did make, looked nice on the Park Place frontage...
You can be sure I'll be tracking this suckah...
Posted by jmarston at May 17, 2005 11:05 AM
Comments
Nice pictures. I work in downtown Brooklyn and it's nice to see some new development in that area. Would be nice to see that whole area turned around, while preserving some of the architectural gems in that area.
Posted by: Downtown Lad at May 17, 2005 09:59 PM
come on, you can say it... based on their rendering
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it looks pretty hideously generic. the front setback, the scarily out-of-scale upper floor false facade, the cheap punched windows... it's a disaster.
Posted by: erik at May 18, 2005 11:07 AM
This building is WEST of the Park. East of the Park is Botanic Garden, Eastern Parkway, Prospect Lefferts Gardens
Posted by: Tom at May 18, 2005 06:03 PM