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Really, $1.35 mil to live in that in Crown Heights? Ugggg……..

So nice to see these affordable units created due to the development of a luxurious new condo building in Brooklyn Heights. These residents of these 114 units should be thankful to the developers of One Clinton for providing them with this opportunity.

Washington/Hudson Heights has some decent apartments at this price.

Definitely LA pricing. I WAS paying that twenty years ago in Travis Heights (Dot-com boom), but had three times the space, if not more. (Two kitchens, two full baths, two bedrooms, office, etc.)

Love this space.

I’m a defender of AS as I think it does a pretty good job of having a live/work/play built environment and especially now that some of the holes are filling in with more organic development.

I agree though that the 17th street bridge is a total mess and is miserable to walk across. The Atlantic Station Civic Association needs to partner with the Home Park Community Improvement Association, and with the Loring Heights Neighborhod Association to connect those neighborhoods.

Mecaslin St. NW should have a signaled crossing into AS and Fowler St. NW should be extended and connected to Loring Dr. NW. Those two north/south connections would be go a long way towards integrating AS with Loring Heights. 16th St. is also a total mess, built as a barrier between AS and Home Park, rather than a connector. Fix the State St./16th St. intersection and the connection to Home Park would be much smoother.

not surprising at all as this isn’t the first time this development has been redesigned. but now things seem to be scaling back rather than up, Monroe block is on hold as well and I would bet the hostile climate for immigrants and trade war with China is certainly not helping business either

btw, global building heights are measured in meters and 300m (984ft) is the real benchmark for supertall skyscrapers. there’s no way this building will come close.

My problem is that politicians are trying to take down buildings on the basis of solely height. Mechanical voids are necessary to an extent, but they have been abused – everyone can agree on that, and I do think that Ed Bosco’s recommendations should’ve been implemented (which are actually MORE restrictive than the rules that exist now.) We can also have an argument about roof heights and stuff like that, but that’s another topic for another day. And I will say again, these buildings are huge missed opportunities. That’s not exactly what I am getting at though.

Consider 570 Fulton Street in Brooklyn. 40 stories, 558 feet, 139 apartments, 40 affordable, plus office space for small businesses. There are some negligible mechanical spaces in the middle if you look at the renderings. Despite CB2’s opposition, the project actually made it through ULURP pretty swiftly, being announced, certified, and approved all within the span of about 6 months (shorter than the approval process alone would normally take). Now let’s say this project is proposed for where the current site of DSW now sits, on 79th Street and Broadway. Most everything remains the same, but in this altered offer, DSW gets a new facility, and sorely needed benefits to the 79th Street Station are also offered up. Again, Mark Levine, Helen Rosenthal, and a large swath of neighbors would vehemently oppose this project, and try to bring it down, despite its clear benefits, because the tower is 558 feet tall in an area with the tallest building is 200 feet shorter. I really think the same thing would happen if they decided to put the current proposal for 960 Franklin in the same spot, and the towers are 130 feet shorter than 570 Fulton. They also did that with the Riverside Center proposal way back in 2009/2010, and those buildings max out at 535 feet.

I may not have made this clear, but the height shouldn’t be entirely erased from the picture, but it shouldn’t be the deciding force. Rachel Levy on this topic, regarding controversial UES projects, said that "Height was secondary" and Sean Khorsandi said that "It’s about context – where kind of area are these projects rising in? What are these projects providing?" Those are better attitudes to have. Affordable housing, more often than not, comes with projects that are considerably larger, whether it be in bulk or height. On the Upper West Side, the one that comes to mind for me is 145 West 108th Street, a solely affordable project that actually provides the second most housing for a single building outside of a larger megaproject (so that excludes Riverside South and the Fordham Redevelopment). Larger projects garner more housing, and cheaper housing, even on the market-rate side, and generally, in neighborhoods like the Upper West Side, larger projects come with height. While these projects are clearly exceptions to that rule (on the side of affordable housing, not market-rate housing.) I fear what the attitude might be towards future projects that are tall that have affordable housing.

Why would I? If you live in the southern parts of Brooklyn, any train heading to Broadway Junction can get you to the A train to Howard Beach and you take the AirTrain to JFK. If youre in Queens closer to Jamaica, you can get to Jamaica and take the AirTrain as well. If youre in the northern part of Brooklyn, you can take trains like the G train from Williamsburg, Greentpoint, Fort Greene to Court Square in LIC and take the 7 to Jackson Heights and get to LGA with the Q70. Same thing if you live near LIC, Woodside, Sunnyside, Elmhurst, Flushing, or Corona. If youre around Astoria, you can take the m60 to LGA. All of these services reliably run even in the middle of the night and I dont have to go in the opposite direction for 30 minutes or more and then get take the route to my destination UNLIKE the CTA. And since Chicago winters are far more brutal compared to NYC the commute during winters is less painful.
Are we done with the pop quiz? I feel like I wasted time typing this because I’m guessing u dont even know the public transportation in NY accept the typical anecdotes insecure Chicagoans use from other stories.

Well now, we’re on to something. One can never go wrong with quality and integrity. Not sure I agree with the Frank Gehry comment. Unfortunately, despite much dedication to turn back a Frank Gehry project at Sunset and Crescent Heights, the true objectives of having the landmarked Kurt Meyer Lytton Bank building inspire a project befitting of scale and circumstance, it got lost in a very unfortunate appeal’s court decision and will now become a reality.

Townscape Partners came to the border of West Hollywood/Los Angeles at Sunset and announced they would build The Gateway to West Hollywood. The very nerve of it! Imagine, "we’re here to build your Gateway, you don’t have a say and you should love it". The City of West Hollywood proved rather impotent in utilizing correct and timely resources to counter the plan through negotiation while Townscape had the expedited Sacramento legislation at its back. In reality it will be a version of Disney Center at that location. Leaving City Hall one evening, driving past DC I pointed out to a colleague that ‘this" is why we will have within a half a block. It was and is an immense intrusion. The tragedy of it all is that it is smack in the middle of West Hollywood’s most dense Historic District of approximately 40 Landmark structures within in a 5 block radius disrespecting all sensibilities of context and scale.

While obviously steeped in timeless classic buildings, I also have a keen eye and appreciation for projects that have been developed with sensitivity in the UK and Europe that inspire continuity even with juxtaposed opposites. This is not a well understood concept here to the detriment of our landscape. Everyone believes things emerging from Sci Arc are the last word. Not exactly!

New York was always a haven for everyone because of cheap rents from Civil War days to the early eighties. All of Manhattan outside of the UES was affordable, and even there you could find some cheap places. That all changed with the arrival of millionaires and trust-fund scum with credit cards paid for by Daddy and Mommy.

By the way, owning is better than renting. Try Inwood and Washington Heights and Da Bronx. Multi-family. Use the rents to pay off the mortgage. Screw Starbucks. Bring a thermos. Restaurants my hairy ass! Brown-Bag It. Let the Trustafarians pay retail for overhyped crap. Shop wholesale. Avoid anything trendy. Go to the bodega, not Bloomingdales.