Proposals of BQE redesigns have been revealed. One thing that is important is there are no mentions of how many lanes it will have for certain, although it may have between two to three lanes for each direction most likely.
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This is called the Louie.
Louis XVII was one of Louis XVI’s sons, who died during the revolution a few years after his dad was guillotined. His uncle Louis XVIII ruled as king after the monarchy was restored following the Napoleonic era.
Both long-forgotten royals are honored in this corner of Manhattan. What do they have to do with the Flatiron district? Nobody knows.
Photos by Michael Young
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Why do all of these new buildings need a name? What’s wrong with just the address? How pretentious! Plus, how many cab drivers are going to know the whereabouts of all these named buildings? NONE!
Especially for Manhattan with the grid, street names can be confusing. You can have an assemblage mid block that spans two streets and give it an address for either. For corner parcels, it can be a street address or an Avenue address. Names are simpler.
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Yet the vast majority of these buildings are on numbered streets not named streets.
I like the name: perhaps because it reminds me of this song - the lyrics are fantastic. I always liked this song…Louie, Louie, Louie, 
She was black as the night;
Louie was whiter than white]
Danger, danger when you taste brown sugar
Louie fell in love overnight
Nothing bad, it was good
Louie had the best girl he could
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All but one of these photos does an excellent job of masking the fact this is right next to the noisy and polluted Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.
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I think it’s this one:
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These are some older PDF files for 413 9th Avenu, but I don’t think there are any activities yet.
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144 Vanderbilt Avenue (Brooklyn)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/12/realestate/pink-building-brooklyn-fort-greene.html
Clark Hodgin for the New York Times
Clark Hodgin for the New York Times
Clark Hodgin for the New York Times
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