The Brooklyner - 111 Lawrence Street - Brooklyn - Rental

[lofter1]

At least at Cassa they saw fit to clad all the exposed concrete ... something it seems the folks at 111 Lawrence don't plan to do.

[BrooklynLove]

Huh?

Almost everyone here (besides you) are objective on a building's appearance.

I detect no bias for or against a borough among most other regulars here other than you.

Some like londonlawyer may dislike the Cassa for a particular reason (no tapering crown) but he almost never comes in these outerborough building threads much less be biased against them.

And you know, I hold no bias for or against Brooklyn. Unlike you, I care about every inch of the city from Pelham Bay in the Bronx to Tottenville Staten Island.

If you focused less on making every response to my posts about me and you instead of the discussion topic it would be a lot easier to have a discussion with you, and those discussions would be way more productive.

[antinimby]

The focus was put on you only after you brought up the topic of other people's objectivity.

Need I have to point it out to you?

That's not a flattering perspective however the building looks way better from other vantage points.
This new addition isn't all that much better yet some people seem to have a hard on for it:
Go figure.

I won't deny my Brooklyn bias. However, my point is to identify the bias many are taking concerning Casa, based on it's architect and it's midtown location. I never implied that the two buildings weren't different, my intent is to question the objectivity with which many here view the two buildings.

If you would have left it as "oh X building is no better than Y building" then we wouldn't be having this conversation. Instead you had to take a hidden swipe at other people.

[BrooklynLove]

For the love of God. You're so focused on yourself all the time that you don't even see it. My posts were generic. Your responses were about me, to which my response was again generic, and then your post about you. If you weren't so consistently focused on repairing your ego, maybe you'd respond to the substance of the post, and not the poster.

Almost everyone here (besides you) are objective on a building's appearance.

I detect no bias for or against a borough among most other regulars here other than you.

Some like londonlawyer may dislike the Cassa for a particular reason (no tapering crown) but he almost never comes in these outerborough building threads much less be biased against them.

And you know, I hold no bias for or against Brooklyn. Unlike you, I care about every inch of the city from Pelham Bay in the Bronx to Tottenville Staten Island.

Doesn't it seem odd to you how a generic post about objectivity turns into a speech by you about how I'm biased and you're not. No one said anything about you. Why do you feel the need to?

[antinimby]

Some people are so dense that even when you try to explain it to them several times, they still don't get it.

There, that statement is also generic but somehow we all know who we are talking about.

[BrooklynLove]

Actually, some people are such egomaniacs that they don't get it.

[BrooklynLove]

AN - if you really want a reason to hate this building a ton, take a look from street level across the street from it.

[antinimby]

What makes you think I haven't?

[stache]

Girls, you're both pretty!

[BrooklynLove]

What makes you think I haven't?

Because you haven't pointed it out and it's the strongest argument for the ugliness of this building. Maybe it's an issue of timing. When last did you view the base levels from across the street?

[antinimby]

November.

Do you need my date of birth and mother's maiden name also now?

You're crazy if you think this heap of elephant dung looks bad only from across the street. It looks bad in every angle and in any distance where you can see it.

[RoldanTTLB]

November.

Do you need my date of birth and mother's maiden name also now?

You're crazy if you think this heap of elephant dung looks bad only from across the street. It looks bad in every angle and in any distance where you can see it.

Not true! To this building's credit it is just bland from a distance. If it were really ugly from a distance it would stand out.

[antinimby]

By your definition, no building could ever be ugly from a distance then. They could all be bland.

That is so very not true!

Fact is, from a distance even without being able see its ugly skin, this pile's shape has all the gracefulness of this:

[BrooklynLove]

Do you need my date of birth and mother's maiden name also now?

Let me guess. 10/13/25, Roberts.

[RoldanTTLB]

By your definition, no building could ever be ugly from a distance then. They could all be bland.

That is so very not true!

Fact is, from a distance even without being able see its ugly skin, this pile's shape has all the gracefulness of this:

And by bland I meant it blends in. And it doesn't take a whole lot of distance. The 111 Lawrence looks fine from my office in Manhattan. I wish I could say the same for Waterside Plaza, the buildings I find to be some of the the ugliest in NYC, and terrible from any distance...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8742248@N07/

Let me guess. 10/13/25, Roberts.

HAH! Behave.