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Development Notebook: Introducing the What the F*ck (WTF) Building

January 28th, 2009 · 1 Comment

We love new buildings going up right on top of the BQE. There’s just a certain something about the idea of buying or renting an apartment with tractor trailers going by about 100 feet away. (In this case in a particularly nasty spot near the McGuinness Boulevard exit.) But this one–240 Meeker Avenue–is just extra-special because not only is it next to the BQE, it’s being built on top of an existing manufacturing building that seems to house a variety of enterprises. (At least one of which was closed for the Chinese Lunar New Year when we happened by with camera.) It’s formal statistics are nine floors and 46 apartments. It comes from an architect named Ralph Albanese in Brooklyn Heights. The WTF Building is roughly across the BQE from Hotel Le Jolie, which only goes to prove that there was a time during the boom years when anything–no matter how absurd or ill-advised–was possible. And why we are convinced a bloodbath of Biblical proportions is going to happen in North Brooklyn in the next 12-24 months. Duck and cover, people. It’s going to be brutal when all this stuff hits the fan market.

Tags: Williamsburg

1 response so far ↓

  • 1 Niner // Jan 29, 2009 at 11:55 am

    What about the building going up on the postage stamp sized lot on the corner of West 9th and Hamilton? THAT is craziness.