Key design elements
Proposed Bushwick building gets musical
inspiration — just don’t try to play it
BY CRAIG HUBERT
Is a building made to look
like an instrument music to
your ears?
If so, you’re in luck. A rendering
has been revealed for
a new four-story building at
334 Evergreen Avenue, near
the corner of Himrod Street
in Bushwick, with a striking
design on the facade made to
resemble piano keys.
The rendering was spotted
on the website of iAffordNY,
a marketing agency
formed in 2018 that works
with HPD and developers on
“unit planning, HPD compliance,
affordable unit leasing,
and everything in between,”
according to the company’s
website.
It also appeared on the
Instagram account of INEX
Design, who are credited on
the renderings, in February
2020.
“We can’t wait to here
sic the music from this
one,” they wrote in a post.
“Once this project is done,
it will sure make a loud
statement!”
Bushwick has a tradition
of facades that make loud
statements.
The musical motif continues
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on the interior, renderings
show. Another large
keyboard adorns a hallway
wall, musical notation appears
near the stairways,
and wallpaper showing
thousands of tape cassettes
can be found in the laundry
room.
The building is currently
under construction,
Google Maps and the site’s
complaint history show. It
replaced an altered wood
frame building old tax photos
reveal to have once been
a bucolic mid 19th century
Gothic house with gingerbread,
fi sh-scale shingles
and a porch.
A new building permit issued
last year shows there
will be a total of eight apartments,
and iAffordNY says
three will be designated as
affordable — presumably
under the 421-a program.
Shawn E. Stiles of S&S Architectural
Design is the applicant
of record. Joel Friedman
is listed as the owner on
building permits.
The site was purchased for
$999,000 in 2018 by 334 Evergreen
LLC, which has an address
that links back to Lee
Avenue Shipping and Communication,
a well-known
mail drop in Williamsburg
where hundreds of developers
have addresses.
It remains to be seen how
closely the fi nished building
will resemble the rendering
— though we don’t suppose
you will be able to play the
building. The exterior of the proposed building Rendering by INEX Design
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