Exterior work is wrapping up on 58 Vanderbilt Avenue, a nine-story residential building in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. Designed by J Frankl Associates and developed by Bruchy Lefkowitz, the structure will yield 90 residences with 23 units dedicated to affordable housing, as well as 34 parking spaces. Builders Source USA LLC is the general contractor for the property, which is alternately addressed as 205 Park Avenue and located along Park Avenue between Vanderbilt and Clermont Avenues, near the southern border of the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
Recent photographs show the zigzagging massing enclosed in an envelope of light gray brick and all of the tall rectangular windows in place. Sections of contrasting red brick have begun to surround the walls within the pocketed terraces along Park Avenue, and additional red brick accenting will soon cover the gaps in the façade on the seventh story. Scaffolding and construction netting still shroud the southwest corner of the building at the intersection of Park and Clermont Avenues, and the first story, which will be enclosed in floor-to-ceiling glass, remains obscured behind the sidewalk shed as work on the envelope wraps up.
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Residential amenities at 58 Vanderbilt Avenue will include an enclosed parking garage, bike storage lockers, a virtual doorman, a recreation room, party room, business center, and a rooftop terrace. Units come with washers and dryers, intercoms, air conditioning, and name-brand kitchen appliances, countertops, and finishes.
The nearest subway from the development is the G train at the Clinton-Washington Avenue station to the south at the intersection of Clinton and Lafayette Avenues. To the north is the Brooklyn Navy Yard ferry terminal, providing access to Manhattan and Queens via the East River.
YIMBY anticipates 58 Vanderbilt Avenue will complete construction this winter.
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Very nice look. Hope it’s affordable
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 good luck there’s no low income housing 🤣
This turned out better than I expected. It’s so refreshing to see actual brick walls, not cheap glass panels.
Quality
Yes yes i like it Thank you
Beautiful photos of the brickwork!!!
I like brick buildings. They have a problem in that beyond the very common red color, obtaining matching material for Local Law 11 repairs in the future can be difficult. My building is a hodgepodge of colors. It is unfortunate that the building does not have a view beyond an elevated expressway.
Many brickmakers of 100 years ago either don’t exist anymore or the more unique textured brick is no longer made due to expense and changing tastes/trends at mid-century. It is unfortunate but I also speculate that many building owners also don’t direct their contractor the exert a lot of energy tracking down a better match due to apathy and expense – especially when the repairs are due to Local Law 11 and are unexpected and coming directly out of the pocket of the, in many cases, negligent property owner.
As for new construction like this, the best thing to do is for a few cupid yards of original bricks to just sit in the corner of some non-resident area of the building just waiting for the day when they might be needed.
My building, an original co-op from 1958, was faced with an orange brick covered with a thin whitish coating giving a pinkish appearance. The coating has weathered off, so even the original bricks would not match anymore. We found something reasonably close when the parapet was replaced, but wall repairs required bricks of the original size those did not match.
I guess I was thinking of the pre-war 5-6 story NYC apartment house archetype. There’s not much that can be done for the red brick post-war box.
Interesting.
Very nice, too bad it’s not taller.
Will truck exhaust change the color of those bricks ?
Yes yes i like it Thank you