Brooklyn blogger CasaCara covers real estate, architecture, historic preservation and interior design from Brooklyn to Philadelphia, the Hudson Valley, the North Fork and beyond.
Today she talks about some lovely buildings close to home:
a rare while, a pair that has somehow managed to survive the decades.
But how often do you see EIGHT in a row, freshly painted in vivid retro colors?
Never, unless you’re on the north side of Atlantic Avenue between Third and Fourth Avenues in Boerum Hill,
where a long, uninterrupted row of 1880s buildings with original
storefronts, no two alike, defied the odds. (The block is NOT even part
of the Boerum Hill Historic District.)
First developed in the 1970s by Bill Harris of Renaissance Properties
and called Atlantic Gardens, the original six buildings plus two
adjoining ones were purchased in 2006 by developer Barbara Koz Paley
and partners, and restored inside and out with the help of Taylor & Miller Architecture in Greenpoint.