Rents at 172 Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights to Start at $2,500/Month

I lived next door at 180 Montague Street last year! That block especially between Clinton and court streets, is very loud, lacks Brooklyn heights charm, Montague street really sucks in the way of nice restaurants or any really cool Brooklyn bars. Good luck to who ever lived there.

@ Martin Schneider – You are the voice of sanity in this small Brooklyn Heights world. A number of us were fortunate enough to spend many wonderful years in a beautiful neighborhood which becomes smaller and smaller as the greed of building developers, supported by our politicians’ silence, covers the sky and blocks the sun. Unfortunately, our children are the inheritors of a small group of homes huddled together displaying better days. Greed has become the password for the 21st century.

Great views, except for all the people next door at the Archstone whose west-facing windows were bricked over when this building went up.

Doubtful.

Wow, is that an ugly building. But hey, I’m sure USB outlets and bluetooth will more than make up for it. I mean, who wouldn’t want to live in a place that boasts technology that rivals the Ford Fiesta they rented from Avis that one time?

The NY Daily News story about Bonjour’s Montague Street tower with a three-bedroom apartment rent of $108,000/ year, with its sun-blocking of nearby buildings, infrastructure stressing and marketing push for super amenities and great views is reminiscent of a classic strategy to create a gated community. GC’s consider the income level of residents, including whether buyers will use properties as primary residences, vacation homes or investments. The problem with Bonjour’s project seems to be yet another example of the destruction of an existing community in Brooklyn Heights. As with most creators of GC’s, developers cease to be involved in the community when construction of their project is completed. We should all consider what makes a community “gated.” According to Realtor Magazine, gated communities can be protected by natural features, key card access or private security forces. How will the privacy and security features of a GC be met on Montague Street? Buyers of condos at Pierhouse in the Brooklyn Bridge Park have already bemoaned the presence of the public in “their” park, “their” front yard.

It’s ugly and contributes to destroying the character of our neighborhood.

Another fugly building.

If you’ve read any other of my posts, I am against any more condo development – until or unless the public infrastructure is able to support it. (Schools, hospitals, fire and police services, etc.)

The public is obviously overwhelmed at the current time, and it is only getting worse. Further development must be halted.

Ugly is in the eye of the beholder. It is not illegal to be ugly. Ugly isn’t a crime.

Ignoring community safety standards or corrupting zoning laws should be a crime. But those laws and standards are being ignored by the courts. The politicians are responsible. They are the ones who aren’t stopping the real estate corruption. They are part of it.

First of all NONE of the neighborhood
Preservation organizations or leading
Voices are doing the two MOST BASIC
things to safeguard this community:

1) Like ANY watchdog effort anywhere
You have to review ANY and ALL
Requests for permits. like any interest
Group watching say, legislation, you
Want to review all bills at their first
Moment of introduction…same with
The first indication of intention to
Mount any building project in your
Area. You watch the trade publications
You watch the permits and you develope
“sources” in the industry….

2) You carefully and above all deeply
Delve into the background of any
Individual who wants to build-no
exceptions (the BHA has for decades
Refused to do this) you want to know
Who the builder is, who are his associates,
What his previous behavior is, WHO he
owes money to…the works.

Youll notice that NONE of the ” preservationist”
Orgs or the various gasbags on the subject
Are doing either of the above at all or anywhere
Near necessary. WHY IS THAT? Right now
any number of organized crime related groups
Or guys with wild international fraud back
Grounds could be planning huge building
Projects and all of you would be clueless
Because your “leaders” aren’t doing the
Basic steps to protect you.

All they want to do is carefully come to the BH
Wailing Wall AFTER the damage is done.

So, er, who WAS asleep at the switch?
The answer is…all of you “concerned
Citizens” who simply were too distracted
or lazy to do the few basic steps which have
Successfully derailed destructive building
projects in many other parts of the country.

Are you describing the Fortis Group? The real estate group what corrupted NY State into closing Long Island College Hospital? Community groups went to court, had public hearings, disclosed the real estate corruption, disclosed the political corruption. And what happened?

The hospital closed. People have died prematurely, and will continue to do so. Governor Cuomo could have stopped it, but he enabled it to happen. The State Courts were unable to stop Cuomo, and people are dying. Rich people, poor people, everyone is suffering.

What is your solution to the LICH real estate matter? What did the responsible community people do wrong?

The Feds wouldn’t do anything to stop the LICH closure before it happened. They said, hopefully the State will do the right thing and stop the scheme, and save the hospital. Well, the State was an accessory to the crime by stopping Judge Baynes from stopping the LICH closure, and people have died. Fortis got the land. They bought the prize from the State, Cuomo was the cause of the closure. Can anyone say “campaign money”? Can anyone say “Moreland Commission”?

What went wrong? What was the end result?

It is not right to say, nobody bothered to stop it. That is simply not true. Corruption is not being stopped. It is thriving like never before.

No crooked real estate operations are being stopped, nobody is going to jail for lying, cheating, or stealing. It is all about the $$$$$$$$. It always has been. Justice has a price, and the public is the loser.

Public displays of community upset and a redirecting of
Main fire to the banking/financial sector which allows
Improper development. You also need the collection
of information which leads to high visibility prosecution
On a federal level. At this point, after years of lack of
Proper action by our “leaders”, the Only devices which
Will stop the Fast building confligation the. heights finds
Itself in is: 1) serious jail time and 2) serious asset
Seizure. Nothing else will change the financial “culture”
Which is the real cause of where we are now.

Awwww jeez I feel so sorry for your kids being forced to walk past an ugly building on the way to their multimillion dollar real estate inheritance. Life if tough man, life is tough. I mean really, how do they cope?

You’re right. Whats happening in Brooklyn heights is horrifying. Our community has long been an exclusive enclave for the very rich and very white, and we’re being over run now by the super rich and super white. Whats next? The mega rich? Its simply terrifying.