This is one of the latest works by Karl Fischer to come on line in Williamsburg, 525 Union Avenue and is one of the buildings to be completed in the booming Union Avenue corridor both west and east of the BQE. It’s not a condo but a “luxury rental” that started marketing itself a couple of month ago. It is the apartment building whose ad campaign relocated the downtown Manhattan skyline as being visible beyond McCarren Park. Yet, even as the building has moved into the marketing phases, the bizarre cinder-blocked spaces at sidewalk level have remained. Only now, they have been painted a cream color. Are they eventual places for windows? For artwork? For advertising? Well, no matter. To us, nothing says luxury like painted over cinder-block block holes.
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1 plentynuff // Aug 15, 2008 at 5:05 pm
Just this morning I noticed windows finally being placed in these big cinderblobs, which had mystified me too.
“Luxury rentals,” heh. This place looks for all the world like a college dorm, which I imagine is exactly the purpose it’ll serve if the stream of NYU students rotating annually through my building nearby is any clue.
Certainly, this masterpiece was worth pissing off God by piledriving during mass services next door.
2 plentynuff // Aug 15, 2008 at 5:10 pm
Oh my lord, that picture on the linked ad is high-larious. Manhattan isn’t merely visible from the park, it apparently is right on the border of it. Who knew?
Pretty pricey, too, these luxury rentals.