This situation at 113 Boerum Place is looking like kind of a nightmare. The owner ran out of money last year and put the place, mid-massive renovation, on the market for $1,599,000. No nibbles, so he took the price down to $1,400,000. Still nothing, and the property was delisted in December with the owner deciding to try to finish the job herself. The scaffolding that was up last year is now gone and there's a Stop Work Order as well as an Intent to Revoke that was issued at the end of February; there's also an unpaid fine for $3,000 on the place. To top that off, the craftmanship seems worthy of some of the South Slope hack jobs we've witnessed in recent years. Check out a close up on the jump.
House of the Day: 113 Boerum Place [Brownstoner] GMAP P*Shark

According to the tipster who sent in this photo, Court Street bar and restaurant Abilene is building out this space at 543 3rd Avenue in Gowanus. Should be a nice fit with the pentecostal church next door! GMAP

Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn

You'd think if the Atlantic Yards project was half as good for Brooklyn as its proponents claim it would be, they wouldn't need to make things up.

DDDB sets the record straight on a couple pernicious lies.

Correcting a couple of mythological whoppers highlighted by Ratner & Friends at their arena groundtaking ceremony:

Ratner & Friends claimed there were 34 lawsuits against his project.
There weren't.
There were eight against various abuses exhibited by the project, its process and its involved agencies.

Ratner & Friends claimed that Atlantic Yards would displace four commercial occupants and about 35 residents occupying 15 apartments.
Wrong.
When Ratner announced his project in December 2003 it was immediately clear that eminent domain would be used to remove all of these businesses and residents. And it was. At the time there were 33 businesses with 235 employees, 162 homes with 334 residents, and a long-term family homeless shelter housing close to 400 individuals. They all will all be gone eventually and eminent domain will have been used to clear the site.

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This three-story brick house at 43 3rd Street in Carroll Gardens just hit the market with an asking price of $1,390,000. It looks like a very cute place to us, with lots original detail on both the inside and outside. To us, it's screaming out to be a one-family, but appears to work fine currently as a two. You likey?
43 3rd Street [Douglas Elliman] GMAP P*Shark

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