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A controversial 7-floor condo going up at 360 Smith Street – which some see as emblematic of Carroll Gardens's "rampant out-of-scale development." The local community board's Public Land Use committee voted to deny developer Billy Stein an extension allowing him to finish the building's foundation. Lost City was at the meeting, which featured an MTA worker's assertion the Carroll Street subway station couldn't support the bulk of 360 as proposed: "Stein, meanwhile, leaned against the lip of the auditorium's stage, a study in negative body language. To my eye, he was a picture of ingrained smugness. If there had been a button in the room that triggered a trap door to make the crowd disappear, he would have hit it, then breathed on his fingernails and polished them against his lapel."
Carroll Gardens Condo Project Still Facing Opposition
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Smithers, release the hounds.
It's about time the developers started to get put in their place. If he was smart he would learn from this and start developing buildings that fit in with the neighborhoods. There are too many ugly and crappy buildings being put up. It needs to stop.
i don't know the specifics of this situation and honestly don't really care; but I have to say NYC needs more development otherwise people have no right to complain about affordable housing. you need supply to meet the huge demand to have any impact on housing costs here and it seems every community group has an anti development bent now... I guess to keep their neighborhoods and their cushy home values nice and high.
Sour grapes, anyone...?
There's development and then there's overdevelopment. Condo projects do absolutely nothing for "affordable housing." Affordable housing gets torn down then redeveloped with oversized units to stroke the egos of the nouveau riche. I've seen it happening on the Upper East Side. It's like suburban sprawl compacted into the city. Nothing but waste. The construction boom has been happening for the last decade or so. You show me how it has increased affordable housing at all. Slower development is the only upside to the coming economic downturn.
To #3 I am not opposed to development but the buildings that have been going up have been very insensitive to the neighboring buildings and most of them have been very poorly built. This building is literally right around the corner from me and it this building site has been a mess since day 1.
I would also like to point out that most of these new buildings are going up not to provide affordable housing but to put even more high end and over priced apartments on the market. If anything it has made the neighborhoods more expensive and less attractive. This is an old neighborhood and people want to protect the look of it more than anything else. Build something but build smart and don't use the "affordable housing" excuse because more often than not it's not going to be affordable to most.
[5] Are you so out of arguments that you can't do anything but waste eight inches of space posting the same six words? Writing it a hundred times doesn't make it any more persuasive than writing it once, no matter how often your teachers forced you to do this back in third grade.