Our wonderful Carroll Gardens Correspondent supplied us with these photos of, uh, changes at the corner of Smith Street and Warren Street at one of the exits to the Bergen Street Station, writing: “First, nice Spring trees and sunny yellow clapboard. Today, brick-red construction fence. Bye Bye clapboard history and fantastic dogwood trees.” The abrupt end of spring is due to the coming a new five-story, 55 foot tall building. Its formal address is 311 Warren Street. The original application was filed four years ago.
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1 Brooklyn Salt // May 21, 2008 at 10:01 am
This lot has been empty for so long, I’m surprised they didn’t build on it sooner. I recall this lot used to have a trailor parked on it.
Its sad to see such a beautiful tree go. I hope they saved it.
Do you know if it will be a Fedders box or something sort of nice?
2 tj // May 21, 2008 at 10:18 am
surprisingly if someone had any foresite they would have sold the dogwood and the japanese maple. Both are specimens and could have fetched around $12k each wholesale.
3 Anonymous // May 21, 2008 at 4:10 pm
No. Firewood, I bet.
4 coquito // May 21, 2008 at 8:54 pm
Damn. Those were beautiful trees.
5 degraw denizen // May 22, 2008 at 2:11 am
They were beautiful trees and nice to see every spring. This will be a very difficult site to develop and has likely been vacant for 70 years since the construction of the IND, below. There are a series of similar lots up Smith Street.
Wonder if the economics really make sense now.
6 Anonymous // May 22, 2008 at 9:34 am
It is near an exit not ” exists to the Bergen Street Station”.
And the yellow clapboard is aluminum siding and it isn’t going anywhere.
7 anonymous // May 22, 2008 at 10:43 pm
expect the best from this hero of an architect!
8 Anonymous // May 25, 2008 at 1:02 pm
Hi — I live in the neighborhood and while the loss of the trees is sad at this time of the year, I would like to correct the person who posted that the trees would sell for 12K wholesale each. Each tree would cost approximately 3k to dig and uproot — not to mention additional shipping costs. A Japanese Maple of that size would retail on a tree lot for approx. 6k. The dogwood is a faster growing specimen and I don’t know an arborist who would move it as it is risky to the tree to move at it’s mature state — the one on Smith street has pretty much reached it’s maximum height. A mature dogwood on a tree lot would retail for at most 4-5k. Most treefarms have a dirth of dogwoods on site given the popularity of planting t. I do know for a fact that it is impossible for to find anyone to take trees in New York city of this size.
9 cgirl // May 25, 2008 at 1:07 pm
Hi — I live in the neighborhood and while the loss of the trees is sad at this time of the year, I would like to correct the person who posted that the trees would sell for 12K wholesale each. Each tree would cost approximately 3k to dig and uproot — not to mention additional shipping costs. A Japanese Maple of that size would retail on a tree lot for approx. 6k. The dogwood is a faster growing specimen and I don’t know an arborist who would move it as it is risky to the tree to move at it’s mature state — the one on Smith street has pretty much reached it’s maximum height. A mature dogwood on a tree lot would retail for at most 4-5k. Most treefarms have a dirth of dogwoods on site given the popularity of planting t. I do know for a fact that it is next to impossible to find anyone to take tree donations given the costs of digging and transporting……… I’m a tree lover too — and wish the scenario was different. Let’s remember to check out who the builders are before we critique — the guy’s local, does a lot for the community and has a great aesthetic.