The Best Western has purchased the land adjacent to it on Emmons Avenue, including Cappuccino on the Bay (3035 Emmons Avenue). The plans right now include a skyway over Lincoln Terrace to join a second building that would be mixed use with parking. Cappuccino will close in the middle of June.
But the plans don’t end there, as the owners of Best Western are looking to buy up the rest of the street frontage, including Bernie’s Bait & Tackle, and the corner store on Haring St.
Presumably the building would be as-of-right with the zoning of the Special District, and according to sources, the owner of the Best Western is so smug about his plans that he feels he will “get away with it all because the (people in the neighborhood) are too stupid to stop it“
Hey, the hookers need someplace to work.
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The owner has a point. Not that the neighborhood people are stupid but its not like they stopped any other development in the neighborhhod. Hard to stop after the buildings are already up
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Mr. smug is right. Look at all the gaudy new developments. That whole area is disgusting looking, on Emmons ave between Knapp St and Nostrand Ave. It is one big eyesore. Why? Who approved all of that over development? Those little shacks that used to be next to the Palm Shore club looked better than the new crap they built.
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Over building over crowding it just doesn’t look nice.
We will lose the ambiance we once had.
Can’t say I care for it that’s for sure. But people have ta change things.
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Part of Plumb Beach was re-zoned but it was only side streets – Emmons was left alone, and the re-zoning didn’t go as quickly or as far reaching as it should have gone. Blame the politicians and developers, not the neighbors! Government moved too slowly for SB
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This is today’s reality: too many people. Overcrowding and overbuilding are following directly from the above-mentioned fact. As long as there is demand for housing, there will be supply, no matter if we like it or not. Local politicians receive campaign money from the same construction companies that build in the next block, my block, or in our backyard (as it is the case with the shacks between Nostrand and Batchelder), so the politicians are not going to interfere much.
The new condos do not bother me much, what does bother me is that the City does not seem to take any steps to expand and better the infrastructure necessary to support these new buildings. The same City that collects all the applicable construction permit fees does not lift a finger to expand our sewer and water main systems.
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Too many Russians!
Send them back!
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Hey you know what after I read about this I went to the Hotel to check whether they had really bought up this place next to them. 1 of the guy who worked was even surprised to here about this. He said that the land has too much of headache to buy than to just live it alone & that they were not interested in buying this land even if they was to get it free. So now it got me wondering where did this come out from & who is buying this land. The latest I heard was that the Sarai Restaurant owner was buying this land & building his own Hotel to compete. Who are these people who want to ruin up my neighbourhood where I have been living for so many years?????????? Just live this place the way it is.
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All I can add to this is yes, the property was sold. While I can’t divulge who told our organization, I will say the source is VERY reputable. However, the whole block isn’t sold – just the lots between Lincoln Terr. and Lake Ave. that have frontage on Emmons.
As far as “stopping development” – you can do only so much – this country is built on the fundamental right to own property!
What you can do is make sure buildings are built according to the law, within acceptable building practices, and without effecting the rights of other property owners and the community as a whole. Unfortunately, this is confused with being a “nimby” when all it really is is being observant and trying to make sure everyone plays by the same set of rules.
I don’t think anyone in SB was against development (in fact, the Special SB Zoning District was created to foster development, although it was flawed) – but we all were against development without any plan!
Andy got it in one – this was ill planned, haphazard development without regard for our infrastructure, and in many cases without regard for our neighbors. Those were the main issues.
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OK. Where to start?
1. Owner of Sarai Cafe has bought that vacant land. No plans. Just ask the broker Brian Hanson from Massey Knakal Realty. 718-606-7069.
2. A skyway over a public street in a special district would never get approved by the Department of Buildings.
3. Has anyone bothered to ask say, Bait and Tackle or corner deli if anyone called interested in their property?
And Cappucino on the Bay is moving out. Finally something right! Has anyone bothered to ask him who his new landlord is that is making him move out? Oh, Sarai’s owner. Of course!
I understand there when there is no news, one creates news. So if anyone thinks that we are stupid, it’s the author of this article!!
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4. Who cares.
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Emmons Ave is just a chaotic mess of new condos that noone can afford, and that noone is buying, because of over development. These developers ruined the whole look of the neighborhood, and it started with Loehmann’s development. Noone took it seriously enough and look what happened through the years! This is the result of a community withdrawn from their own affairs! The community is just as responsible for not standing up to big corps.
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who is Noone?
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Noone is the person who should have been making sure the area developed into a quaint fishing village, not a dump.
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No-one = Noone
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know+won= Noone
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No+one gives a crap. This is GB, not SB
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no+one means some+one does give a crap.
0+0 means noone gives a crap.
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We should care even if it is SB because they’re our neighbor and who says it couldn’t happen here? Look at all of the monstrosities they call buildings here. Russians love being near the water because of the Black Sea, told to me by a Russian. That is what’s buying all of those ugly condos in SB, GB is near the water, break out the Vodka!
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To live near water means wealth, according to a russian I know.
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I bet the Russians don’t think the people who live in Coney Island are wealthy.
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