Greenpoint #2: Things Get David & Goliath

1.

Piss-off Robert! Seven or eight stories IS NOT a huge fucking building asshole. Take your god damn FUD back to Ohio you stupid import.

2.

its getting reeeeaaaal friendly in here.

3.

Looks like someone forgot to take his pill this morning...

4.

"piss-off...fucking...asshole...god damn...stupid import" all in a few sentence fragments. are you honestly that upset about the use of the word "big??" for someone so concerned with semantics, you write like a complete idiot. besides, the building does look pretty monumental next to that little house.

5.

In youngstown this would be a skycraper!
where is the local tgifridays?
i miss their fine cusine

6.

I've seen 2 story buidling next to far larger buildings than this all over our town. Some are new and old juxtopositions, others are just old and old buildings together. This is New York—this is how it is done here, and why walking are streets are so special.

7.

that is a skyscraper in youngstown
bye im off to olive garden

8.

not to defend the aggressive correspondence from "anonymous 1", but the building is clearly larger, but not as bad as the editors or contributor would have us think, being exaggerated excessively by a wide angle lens and the house being a tiny house as it is. This all seems perfectly natural, organic and the city operating well.

The contrast of any single family house besides a multiple dwelling is unavoidable, unless you want to adhere to the ubiquitously boring "new urbanist" ideals of monochrome scaled neighborhoods. The little green house "ain't nuttin special"

9.

Whats up with all the anonymous postings, everyone should use a name. It does not have to be real but at least something to get a better dialouge going. Then you can see patterns in users comments and track stuff better. I always use the same name so people can look around the site and see how stupid the comments i make are.

10.

Anonymous posting is an outrage. And I think that new building adds value to that gracious, sundrenched country cottage next door. $2,999,995.

11.

"big ass building" and "huge fucking building" are totally different things (as are "import" and "asshole").

12.

maybe he was trying to say that a "big ass building" is not the size of a "huge fucking building's" anus.

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Curbed should make posters register. We've been saying that all along, but wither they like the offensive nature of the comments, or they're just too lazy.

14.

I still want the Anonymous guy from the 3 a.m. wake up call on Ludlow to come visit me. Accusing me of not being from the L.E.S. and not even have the balls to leave a name. Shame, Shame, Shame.

I agree that Curbed should make people register.

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If you think that's bad, come visit Queens! There's more too dense, out-of-character crap here than you can shake a stick at...

16.

its all in context - that building you see in the pic is taller than anything else in the alphabetical streets of north greenpoint. get a clue.

17.

I took that photo--- and I do not have a "wide angle" lens.

18.

Who is the developer? What's the address?

19.

99% sure it's Eagle St. + McGuinness. I ride past it going onto the bike path on the bridge.
True it's a little out of scale, but 'scale' here is defined by kinda shitty wood frame row houses.
Maybe this slab helps block some of the truck noise from the boulevard?

The odor plume from the sewage treatment plant is lovely when the wind is just right!

Oh and there's a Catholic church on the block. Only thing worse than a storefront Pentecostal joint! At least the storefront churches are humble...

20.

Context context context

does anyone know how the "skyscraper" got to have all those lot line windows?

CP sure did a great job of maintaining and enforcing "contextual zoning" in greenpoint/williamsburg but I guess it's all part of the city being "organic."

curbed sure has become a nasty site. Passions surely do run high!!

21.

wide angle lens or not (and clearly not) the building is obviously 5 to 5 1/2 stories taller than the adjacent building. However, in time, that building too may grow up to be just as big, or more than likely, an empty lot to make up for the exceeded FAR of the focused building at a premium price, of course. But notice there are no windows below the 4th floor? So there still is hope he will grow too someday.

The focus here, ladies and gentlemen, is what the hell happened to the waterproofing (the green stuff) at the third floor?? Why is the waterproofing adhered and not continuous?? Looks like we could have another typical Billyburg/G-point above ground swimming pool being built. Must be rentals....