You can put aside any thoughts you have that a new design for 360 Smith Street will temper neighborhood opposition. Some residents just saw a sketch shared by a “local politician” (we’re thinking we know who) and they are not placated. In fact, they seem rather agitated. Here’s an email we got about the new design:
Many residents here were totally blown away, and not in a good way, after seeing a rough sketch of the proposed building for 360 Smith that developer Mr. William Stein plans on building. With or without the trademark Scarano elements the building is clearly massive. On the southern-most corner of the Smith Street side, where the building facade will be “commercial” not residential is a seventy foot tower. This rectangular prism juts vertically into space sure to cast an enormous shadow and act as a light barrier for all the buildings on Smith Street. The rest of the commercial facade is very tall and goes along the Smith street sidewalk with no set back and joins the Hannah Senesh School known for its VERY! eclectic mix and match materials and colored architecture–i.e.UGLY! The new facade in turn, will cast an enormous shadow on Second Street.
On the Second Place side the wall height is a bit lower but then after a set-back, it too ascends higher, not once, but twice. On this side the wall has a residential style unlike the one on Smith Street. There is an above ground parking lot with an entrance to the garage from Second Place, an until now, gorgeous brownstone block with four story buildings trees and front gardens.
Shall we start to call it the Shadow Building?
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2 responses so far ↓
1 Anonymous // Jul 3, 2007 at 7:19 am
HOW COULD ANYONE IN THEIR RIGHT MIND THINK THAT THESE PEOPLE, WHO HAVE THE NERVE TO CALL THEMSELVES, DEVELOPERS, WHEN ANYONE ELSE WHO SYSTEMATICALLY AND WITH A WINK AND A NOD FROM THE LOCAL POLS “MOVED IN” ON AN AREA IN THE THE WAY THEY DO, WOULD BE LOOKING AT RICO CHARGES,IS SOMETHING GOOD FOR THE COMMUNITY,IS BEYOND ME. WHERE IS THE “PLANNING” IN THE CITY PLANNING DEPT? IS THERE A NEW SCHOOL TO BE BUILT THEY HAVE FORGOTTEN TO TELL US ABOUT? HAS SOMEONE MENTIONED THAT EVERY TIME IT RAINS THE GOWANUS FILLS WITH RAW SEWAGE..OOZING INTO THE SURROUNDING GROUND AND THEREFORE, OUR GROUND WATER? THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT PUTTING OVER FORTY LARGE APARTMENTS IN THAT MONSTROSITY…THAT’S LAUNDRY, DISHWASHERS, SHOWERS, TUBS, AND OF COURSE, TOILETS (PROBABLY MORE THAN ONE PER UNIT)..
WHERE IS ALL THE GARBAGE THAT WILL BE GENERATED BY OUR NEW NEIGHBORS GOING TO BE PUT OUT? WILL WE BE CLIMBING OVER IT ON OUR WAY TO THE SUBWAY EVERY MORNING? CAN YOU IMAGINE THE SIZE OF THE PILE? CITY PLANNING? HA!!THEY COULDN’T PLAN THEIR WAY OUT OF THEIR OWN OFFICES DURING A RAGING FIRE, NEVERMIND ANYONE’S NEIGHBORHOOD
2 Lisanne // Jul 3, 2007 at 9:27 am
You are SO right on anon…also 2nd Place is such a narrow street, the placement of a parking garage entrance there is quite insane….