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Underberg Building, Goodbye
Brooklyn, NY - GGP - Friday, March 10th, 2006 : goo
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The Underberg Building is coming to the end of its life. Demolition began earlier this week (thanks for the tip, kc). Here are some last shots of one of my favorite locals. Sigh...
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Ronald Underberg: 20th Mar 2006 - 05:42 GMT
Though only a resident of Brooklyn for just over six months, I have long been one who has an appreciation for urban and cultural heritage and the value of having or allowing it to persevere. Specifically, I have learned a lot about this building. And regardless that this one-time market and food service wholesale business was owned by the older brother (I believe) of my father's father, it's never a good thing to see an urban relic of any sort familiar to generations within a community become forever vanished, particularly when a community reacts to the destruction of something that's been a familiar part of their city for years.
And besides, however much this property was obviously allowed to fall into sheer neglect, the idea of what's going to replace it as I have seen in those insanely designed renderings fills a community with even more sorrow.
vinny r: 26th Jul 2006 - 15:48 GMT
this was brooklyn at it's finest although it is time for change it is sad to see a part of history go
rosanne underberg: 9th Apr 2008 - 15:57 GMT
I'm sorry but I have never heard of a Ronald Underberg - what is your grandfather's name???? My father was Samuel Underberg and maintaining a building of that size both inside and out is a gargantuan undertaking both financially and physically - we were operating a business out of that building, as were most merchants who "obviously allowed(this property) to fall into sheer neglect...."if you grandfather is who I think he is, my father set him and his wife up in the same business in another part of brooklyn and they walked out one day without so much as a warning - maybe if they had wanted to invest their blood sweat and tears as my parents did for over 50 years things might have turned out differently - I hate when people feel that they have the right to wax poetic over things they have absolutely no idea what they are talking about.
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