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July 27, 2010
Last Rites for The Spalding Building
Brownstoner
From Atlantic Yards Report comes the sad news that the Spalding Building at 24 6th Avenue is being prepped to meet its maker. Another clear example of an architectural eyesore that needed to be purged from the blighted neighborhood. Not. Ratner purchased the building for $2,200,000 in August 2009. As far as we can figure out, there's still that last-minute lawsuit out there involving the building's air rights too.
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Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Historic Spalding Building Bites Dust
One of Brooklyn’s notable conversions of an historic manufacturing building to condominiums is preparing to bite the dust.
First reported Monday on Brownstoner.com as “sad news,” the building set for demolition is known as the Spalding Building, at 24 Sixth Ave., corner of Pacific Street in Prospect Heights, and was once the home of the A.G. Spalding manufacturing company, where the pink rubber balls known as “spaldeens” were manufactured.
NoLandGrab: How is it that the Eagle could write "first reported by Brownstoner.com" and "Brownstoner was citing a report and photo posted on the Atlantic Yards Report" without connecting the dots that this story was first reported by Atlantic Yards Report, referencing photos and video taken by Raul Rothblatt?
Photo: forgotten-ny.com
Posted by eric at July 27, 2010 9:10 AM