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January 17, 2006

Most Erotic Building Site in Brooklyn

1 Eastern Parkway. The excavation has begun!! The site of Brooklyn: an Institutional, Sculptural, and Evergreen confluence. A site with real grace and elegance, a true architectural opportunity. Kind of like the oppurtunity that got jacked on Astor Place. In, dare we say, a hunderd years has a site in Brooklyn afforded such an erotic positioning for an architect. Sitting opposite the Brooklyn Central Library, which is undergoing a plaza renovation, on the same block as the new BK Botanical entrance, the recently appendaged BK Museum, which all sit opposite a bevy of heavweight 1920's structures - the Martha Washington, Peter Stuyvesant, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Turner Towers, etc - all gracefully affronted by plantings, greenery, and pedestrian sophistication. Too even mention Eastern Parkway, America's first Parkway, was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux. But without fail this is a cornerstone of one of BK's most majestic of sites, Grand Army Plaza vis-à-vis Prospect Park. Finally, for the scopophilic, the site sits just a few feet below Brooklyn's second highest point, (Mt Prospect, Battle Hill being #1) affording the greatest of cityscape views, as anyone whose been atop the GAP Arch can attest.

Long a parking lot for the Temple/Eastern Athletic Club, this is one of the last remaining humdingers to be excavated, and surely priced to $1,000sqft. Needless to say, Meir's Erotic Rise on this site will be watched with extreme care & attention here at Transfer. Come along kiddies.

Posted by jmarston at 07:11 PM | Comments (3)