Brownstoner notes that Frank Freeman’s Brooklyn Union Gas building at 180 Remsen Street (listed by LPC as 176 Remsen) will be considered for landmark status at today’s LPC hearing. It was originally placed on the commission’s calendar in February 2009.
Also on today’s docket, an application to construct a rear addition to 100 Clark Street and to alter window openings.
The partially demolished building at 100 Clark Street has been sold “in an all cash transaction valued at $1.25 million” according to a press release from Massey Knakal.
The building was listed by MK back in April. In their press release at that time, it was claimed that “three tenants retain occupancy rights; however preliminary settlement papers were drafted for them to permanently vacate.” It also stated that there is an $18 million wrongful demolition lawsuit pending and that there would be “significant upside” for the new owner to carry on with the litigation.
Full press release after the jump. Continue Reading →
Brownstoner reports that 100 Clark Street, which risked demolition by dereliction in 2008, is on the block. Massey Knakal is handling the listing. There’s no listing price, but they are taking bids.
The listing also includes a nifty “artist’s conception” of what the property would look like with a little TLC errrrr…. make that a ton of cash and lots of patience. Continue Reading →
Raanan Geberer writes an interesting op-ed piece in the Brooklyn Eagle about the demolition of 100 Clark Street. It’s worth reading and discussing: Continue Reading →
A number of complaints regarding 100 Clark Street flowed into the Department of Buildings over the weekend. According to the DOB website, callers complained about “creaking noises” and debris falling from the scaffolding. The DOB is currently under a Stop Work Order brought by the building’s owner the Penson Companies. When the building was vacated over the Memorial Day weekend, the plan was to demolish the first two stories of the building. Following inspection, reports came that the DOB had planned to take down the entire building. They were stopped by the owners last week. Continue Reading →
The Brooklyn Eagle sheds some interesting light on the demolition of 100 Clark Street. According to the report published today, the DOB had decided that the entire structure, not just the top two floors as originally announced, needed to be taken down. Current owners, the Penson Companies went to court to stop the DOB from tearing the entire building down. As a result, the Eagle says, a stop work order has been issued.
Let’s hope that Penson’s plan is to resurrect and restore this landmark building.
McBrooklyn reports that workers at 100 Clark are saying the entire building will be coming down.
Photo: mcbrooklyn
The Brooklyn Eagle covers the tragedy at 100 Clark Street (aka 1 Monroe Place) and includes a quote from BHA Executive Director Judy Stanton. Clearly the finger pointing has begun in this saga: Continue Reading →
I met a woman who was three years old when the original owner of what was then a mansion died and the building was turned into apartments. She told me it was an SRO for many years, so notorious for fires that it had its own call box.
It was built by a doctor, had a stoop up to the home floors with his office in the garden apartment. There was a garden but it was filled in with an addition. She worries a bit about the demolition workers because it has so many staircases going every which way that they could collapse if they aren’t careful.(via Flickr)
The groundswell of rage over the “demolition by dereliction” of 100 Clark Street is growing. Brownstoner does their homework and reveals a few new facts including: Continue Reading →
The current owners of 100 Clark Street, the Penson Companies, cannot be completely blamed for the years of neglect that caused this weekend’s demolition of its top two floors. However this “demolition by dereliction” in a landmarked neighborhood is positively criminal and it happened on this company’s watch. Continue Reading →
The New York Post reports today on the evacuation and condemnation of 100 Clark Street. The article says “an anonymous tipster” called 311 Saturday to alert them about the top two floors of the building protuding more than 13 inches over Clark Street: Continue Reading →
Update: Crews are working right now (1:34pm Sunday) on removing the top two floors of 100 Clark Street. The building was recently named by the BHA as one of several neglected buildings in Brooklyn Heights in danger of “demolition via dereliction.”
More photos after the jump: Continue Reading →
Everyone who read the BHA Spring newsletter a couple of weeks ago was buzzing about the “abandoned house” article. Today, Brownstoner covers each of the decaying Heights Horrors and provides a little detail:
Brownstoner: Dereliction of Duty: The “majestic brownstone” at 194 Columbia Heights, “vacant and padlocked for decades,” is owned by a psychiatrist with an office on Henry Street who did not return our calls…
The multi-family building known as 100 Clark Street nearly collapsed in 2004, according to the Brooklyn Eagle, and is still in miserable shape. The Penson Company bought the building for $3.65 million two years ago and has since put it back on the market …
Quaint 25 Willow Place has been vacant for over 40 years, according to the newsletter, adding “The house may soon be a candidate for Demolition by Neglect, a provision of the NYC Landmarks Law that allows the Commission to take an owner to court in order to save a landmarked building from irreparable deterioration.” Continue Reading →
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