You don’t know how fuckng rageful i get when reading sh like this. It’s unnerving and makes me legitimately sick. Guess I gotta attend the community board meeting to speak out against their BS
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These community boards are sometimes the absolute worst. I don’t get how they’re fine with ugly, polluting parking lots but a nice new beneficial development they’re against. I could only assume they all own and choose to rely on cars so everyone has to bend over for them.
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I’m actually very surprised the Flatbush/Empire Boulevard intersection hasn’t been a magnet for developers thus far. A number or possible development sites, great access to Prospect Park and the Botanic Gardens, and B-Q-S trains right there.
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That area is notorious for NIMBY BS because the park is right there.
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I’m referring narrowly to the few blocks pictured above. I can’t recall any projects proposed there prior to the one I responded to. But if you expand the radius a bit north, yes, there was at least one heavily contested project which I’m pretty sure got built in one form or another.
There’s a Wendy’s, a McDonalds, a handful of parking lots, blocks of 1-story taxpayers, and a large underutilized 2 story factory complex. This area should be ripe for housing of all stripes.
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Earlier today
This is the building at the southeast end of Herald Square where they recently “modernized” the facade.
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Disgusting and vile… I mean look at that, what once was a nice, ornamented, and intact prewar streetwall going down broadway and 33rd. That whole contextual urbanism is ruined. Even replacement with a simple pre-cast brick would’ve been miles better.
Landmarks needs to approve a much wider set of buildings in NY imo. Too many nice buildings being massacred while so many lackluster ones remain.
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What a fk’n joke. An excellent example for architecture students world wide of what not to do in every way possible.
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I still would like to believe that it was just an overclad and not a reclad and the original facade (minus the ornate cornice, clearly) is still there. Photos from when the building was still shrouded with the safety netting suggest it was an overclad.
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More like desecrated.
Where’s the LPC when you need them? These landmarking organizations are more concerned about landmarking junk (look at Boston and its city hall being landmarked) than preserving buildings of substantial architectural quality.
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@TKDV I walked today by the construction site - they were testing a frame - looks like they will add those screens in the end:
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Nice, it’s interesting/strange how they’ve gone about doing it though since the general detail and look of the window has changed from what is depicted in both the renders and the sections/plans you shared earlier.
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Is this what we’re suggesting?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/interactive/2025/battle-of-anghiari-leonardo-da-vinci-palazzo-vecchio/
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1221 York Avenue
According to the report, Stahl Organization, the owner of the building at 1221 York Ave. between East 66th Street and East 65th Street, wants to demolish the six-story building and replace it with a modern building up to 30 stories tall.
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Something like that, 
I’m relatively certain there are other buildings around the city that were just overclad instead of reclad, this isn’t necessarily a new thing thats being done, there’s a number of examples found throughout the US and other countries.
I do wish I had taken more photos when the scaffolding was up to confirm what I believe happened. In the instance that a new owner ever comes around and attempts to restore the facade (and the building really was overclad) they would only have to rebuild the cornice as it is one element that we know was not covered but was completely removed.
Permits filed and earlier photos suggest more then that, the outer layer of stone appears to have been removed, and insulation + this new cladding installed.
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Thanks for sharing the photo, if the stone was infact removed as the photo clearly shows, im struggling to understand why the windows appear to be even more recessed after the reclad when they should have appeared less recessed in such an instance.