580 Carroll Street in Park Slope is gorgeous looking new building. I walked by there the other day. Today the NY Post has something about this building designed by Enrique Norten.

It’s Park Slope’s turn now, which is a good thing for the neighborhood and for New York. It’s about time people stop talking about baby carriages and problems with parking. It’s about time they start talking about how boroughs, such as Brooklyn and Queens, are just as important a canvas for modern architecture as Manhattan,in Buenos Aires, Shanghai or Paris.

If this neighborhood wants to be on the map as New York’s finest, then it has to look at this structure as crucial to its growth. It has to look past the butchery of Fourth Ave. by developers who put profit in front of quality, and pay attention to its most recently arrived development.

So far, it has. Everyone who walks by 580 Carroll can’t help but stare past the cedar fence up into the building’s concrete, glass and steel facade. Sitting back from the street, the building makes a peaceful, quiet and strong statement, a simple study of materials in their most natural elements.