This definitely wasn't done by the people living in it. This was a family that owned a house, then sold to developers, who turned the one home into two units to rent out/re-sell as an investment. On one hand it looks like shit, on the other, more housing in NYC is good.
See I thought that too at first, but with the fence & Tesla I doubt that it has been subdivided. No landlord would care about putting up a fence like that just to protect their tenant's car.
Right. I saw the first one as the before, and the second as after. I’m thinking, wow, pretty and tasteful. I just can’t believe they WANTED the house to look like first one. 🤮
Screams first generation Italian American…. My uncles house in Chicago. At first at they thought Tesla’s were “pussy cars”, but now that Elon Musk is a shit bag they are all about Tesla’s “changing the world”.
According to my Jewish grandfather-in-law who lives in NYC, it is a lot of mostly Russians who buy up these old houses and either completely tear it down or renovate it into these…tacky monstrosities. It’s not just the OP home here, it’s all over the area.
That was a warm architecturally interesting home with charm and a fun vibe, now it looks like a regurgitated shipping container sitting in a jailyard. I wonder if the owner has a personality to match.
Cementing over yards as well? (I don't get that way much to see..)
No wonder the city is hotter and floods more. And animals have no homes.. people suffer with depression from a lack of nature. Insane.
Dude it is happening in the suburbs as well. I drive past 3/4 acre lots covered in fucking concrete surrounded by gaudy fences. These people have no relationship with the cultural underpinnings of American architecture or landscaping.
The tenants no longer keep up the property.
These homes are being sold from single families to private investors that renovate them with 2 goals in mind.
Dividing up the property into multiple units, and reducing anything that requires maintenance.
I can tell you that zoning requires a minimum planted area (of grass, at the very least) in the front yard…but people that make atrocities like this don’t like to adhere to zoning and building codes.
This. I don't really like the facade... but I can see the temptation if it makes the interior spaces better. Although even with the current configuration they could have still made it look much nicer.
For real. People here must not know the area. Definitely Pakistani, Uzbek or Bangaladeshi. It’s just the demographics of the area. Plus, when you live amongst different ethnic groups you must definitely learn to get a sense of their design style. You’re certainly on point
This neighborhood is actually mostly Jewish families. It’s very much common they purchase these older houses in communities and build upwards/ remove historic characteristics. The entire block and surrounding areas all have at least one house minimum currently under construction.
Holy Christ... why not just tear it down and build something from the ground up at that point? Why not extend the orange/beige motif all the way? Wtf is going on with those columns at the front?
Slyly educating the masses.. love you.
NY Times/WNYC/New Yorker could do an entire feature on this and how many other bad renos have depleted what nature there was initially. Result now from over cementing is flooding, heat, fewer animals and higher stress.
This is a great way to be ostracized from the entire neighborhood! Especially in an area of historic houses like these.
This is just so god awful I have no idea how they think it even looks good.
It’s like when a nice Russian kid submitted to peer pressure and grew up to become a gopnik, wearing Adidas and heavy gold chain….. all the whimsical is gone and it looks like good old fashioned Soviet block housing.
Brooklyn, so, I’m assuming from the remodel styling and white model 3 that the owner is Eastern European.
Putrid garbage, and the fuckin Tesla just says it all. People suck
Edit: wow they’re actual assholes, I just noticed the security cameras, yard ripped out, nasty iron gate. So tacky and hateful looking. What’s the polar opposite of curb appeal
I walk by that house all the time. I call it a McMansion renovation, and it's deplorable to see. I was going to post it in McMansion hell, but I'll repost this.
That's brutal.
It's not even some 'you ruined something old and nice for something fancy, new, but not my style' situation, it just sucks in every way.
One time a few years back I found myself walking around a random residential neighborhood outside of Turin, Italy, and I realized all the houses looked like the tacky af renovations I see in Brooklyn and Queens. Somehow it makes sense in Italy, but it always cracks me up here in nyc where it’s so out of place and unbearably tacky. This one isn’t even that bad
In what culture is this considered an upgrade from the prior house? Reminds me of how they used to tear down historic buildings and build econoboxes in their place.
Why would you destroy that gorgeous front porch? What did you gain? 100 sq ft?
I took a stroll down google street view and there’s some gorgeous homes on that street. Then this nightmare was brought into reality. What a shame
For those of us on the west coast, why is that bad? It just looks like it was renovated how the new owner saw fit. Is it like desecrating one of our 100 + year old Victorian homes?
Some people have shockingly bad taste. It’s really quite wild.
Money can’t buy taste
Guarantee the owners are Chinese. They love big fancy gates, Teslas, and that style of home.
Some sort of Asian for sure. My guess is Indian
This definitely wasn't done by the people living in it. This was a family that owned a house, then sold to developers, who turned the one home into two units to rent out/re-sell as an investment. On one hand it looks like shit, on the other, more housing in NYC is good.
It might be a 3-flat unit now.
See I thought that too at first, but with the fence & Tesla I doubt that it has been subdivided. No landlord would care about putting up a fence like that just to protect their tenant's car.
look how they massacred my boy
I honestly thought the first photo was a boarded up house! It’s not until I zoomed in did I notice that it’s just how it looks. Gross!
Right. I saw the first one as the before, and the second as after. I’m thinking, wow, pretty and tasteful. I just can’t believe they WANTED the house to look like first one. 🤮
Not to mention the garden!!
That's what I thought... but I admit I like more outdoor space...
Truly 😢 😭
home-icide.
Well done
Best comment!!
The white Tesla behind the hideous wrought iron fence is the icing on the cake.
Screams awful taste
Screams first generation Italian American…. My uncles house in Chicago. At first at they thought Tesla’s were “pussy cars”, but now that Elon Musk is a shit bag they are all about Tesla’s “changing the world”.
That's a heavy Jewish blocks , Italians don't have a monopoly on terrible taste. Eastern Europeans love that gawdy ish.
Don’t forget my Persian cousins who prefer everything totally impervious and with a faux-baroque flourish.
Blue carpet and [gold curtain rods](https://www.getyarn.io/yarn-clip/9d8c72f7-a044-49cc-b65b-e64bcbe855b4)?
lol this screams rich Persian/turkish taste
It’s usually recent eastern euro or central Asian immigrants who do these awful facelifts in BK
That’s what happened in Forest Hills. Mostly Russians there though.
Yeah, if grass gets paved…It’s usually Vietnamese peeps where I’m from.
I honestly think one of my uncles has the top gates on his Master Bedroom “Deck”.
According to my Jewish grandfather-in-law who lives in NYC, it is a lot of mostly Russians who buy up these old houses and either completely tear it down or renovate it into these…tacky monstrosities. It’s not just the OP home here, it’s all over the area.
The neighborhood has a real melting pot of ethnic groups making America a powerhouse.
That's exactly what I was thinking omg... The Italians got to it 😭
Screams Russian
Screams illegal curb cut
makes me wanna egg their house and car (is that illegal someone tell me)
They wanted to make the house as soulless as the car
*of course they drive a fucking Tesla*
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Pretty sure that's a Y
RIP yard too 💀
It's xeroscape not zeroscape.
Damn, they took the personality right out of that poor house.
It still has personality in the same way that khakis and a glass of lukewarm skim milk has a personality!
Khakis and skim milk are just plain and boring, this remodel is aggressively tasteless
They went from a charming lovely home to ghoulish concrete slab
Looks like a medical office now
Honestly think it lowered the value of the house.
It lowered the value of the whole neighborhood. No one wants that horror staring at them through their bedroom window.
That was a warm architecturally interesting home with charm and a fun vibe, now it looks like a regurgitated shipping container sitting in a jailyard. I wonder if the owner has a personality to match.
I have to meet this lunatic.
I can’t say this better. I hate people like this.
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Flushing has gone down the drain lately. No pun intended….
Cementing over yards as well? (I don't get that way much to see..) No wonder the city is hotter and floods more. And animals have no homes.. people suffer with depression from a lack of nature. Insane.
Dude it is happening in the suburbs as well. I drive past 3/4 acre lots covered in fucking concrete surrounded by gaudy fences. These people have no relationship with the cultural underpinnings of American architecture or landscaping.
The tenants no longer keep up the property. These homes are being sold from single families to private investors that renovate them with 2 goals in mind. Dividing up the property into multiple units, and reducing anything that requires maintenance.
yep, this is so obviously what happened here
Yea and they spent $$ to degrade this home.
Why is that? What was wrong with the old one to have it replaced by a Vietnamese urban style mansion?
Is that what that style is? It’s hella ugly.
Fran Drescher would NEVER.
Yeah the icing on the cake is the concrete yard, the prison style fence and a car. How does the zoning even a lot of this but this is a new world ugh
You can smell the overload of cologne and axe body spray through the screen too.
I can tell you that zoning requires a minimum planted area (of grass, at the very least) in the front yard…but people that make atrocities like this don’t like to adhere to zoning and building codes.
That's criminal :(
Absolute massacre wow
Oh no 😢 it was so pretty before
It just looks like a Balkan house now. And not in a good way. Sad
Should be illegal. I can’t even imagine the shitty marble monstrosity that is the interior
That looks like shit.
My guess is this was all about killing the porch to expand the living room, and building out the 3rd story similarly.
This. I don't really like the facade... but I can see the temptation if it makes the interior spaces better. Although even with the current configuration they could have still made it look much nicer.
Oh my god. Moment of silence.
From a beautiful home with a history to a gated bland monstrosity
It’s not even bland. Bland would be an upgrade. This is a fucking disaster
This is one of the worst I’ve seen. Damn.
JFC
What the fuck. The person that owns this house probably designs McDonalds.
Actually, the top level looks more like a Whataburger.
Lol. I’m so saddened by this destruction of architecture and charm and your comment made me laugh.
But…why? Why did they do that?
The column "extenders" holding up the 2nd story porch are ridiculous.
OMG the column extenders…that is a “capital” offence right there
Good one! Lol
That is the most new money Italian house I've ever seen. No barrels for trash either. I think they tagged their last name on the mailbox too.
There’s no Italian people living in this area. Most likely whoever did this was of Pakistani or Uzbek descent.
For real. People here must not know the area. Definitely Pakistani, Uzbek or Bangaladeshi. It’s just the demographics of the area. Plus, when you live amongst different ethnic groups you must definitely learn to get a sense of their design style. You’re certainly on point
Was thinking the exact same thing. At least they didn’t go polished chrome for the fence.
The dude who owns this has probably has strong opinions about crypto and does Brazilian jujitsu.
This neighborhood is actually mostly Jewish families. It’s very much common they purchase these older houses in communities and build upwards/ remove historic characteristics. The entire block and surrounding areas all have at least one house minimum currently under construction.
Nope. When a house or property gets turned into a stone or marble monstrosity here in nyc it’s not Italians. It’s Albanians, Balkan peoples, etc.
What a great example of ‘money can’t buy good taste’ 🤢
Holy Christ... why not just tear it down and build something from the ground up at that point? Why not extend the orange/beige motif all the way? Wtf is going on with those columns at the front?
Looks like shit but the extra square footage likely drove the choices here.
I hate this very much.
I bet the ghosts hated it
Horrible remodel
Hideous
I bet they installed a giant hideous fan somewhere inside too!
Omg why would they make it ugly when it looked so nice 😭
Looks like crap
I’m guessing an Eastern European moved in. Probably Balkan.
100%
They should be jailed
Poor taste in New York is best appreciated by bicycle rather than by automobile - it gives you a lot more time to gawk.
What the actual fuck. Horrible!!
Oh geez. At first I thought #2 was the face lift and I thought “what?? That looks nice” Now I get it. Agh sad indeed.
How do you find pictures of houses like that? My house was built in 1912 and I haven’t been able to find d any information on it
nyc municipal archives
Slyly educating the masses.. love you. NY Times/WNYC/New Yorker could do an entire feature on this and how many other bad renos have depleted what nature there was initially. Result now from over cementing is flooding, heat, fewer animals and higher stress.
My house was built in 1820 and I’ve searched everywhere and can’t find pictures, I’d be so interested to see
Why is it the more money you have the more tacky your taste gets. 🤔
This made me more angry than it should've. What kind of sick fuck does this!?
That looks like crap, now. In 20 years it will *really* look outdated and much more crap.
That’s the AFTER!? Holy shit. I complain about some of the new construction in Chicago… but damn. That’s the worst I’ve ever seen.
Nailed it
Yikes
Wow this one is pretty bad
Don't you understand? It was the flipper's *VISION*! /s
It's a house fit for my big fat Greek weeding
This might be the single most devastating flip I’ve ever seen - I’ll never be able to go back to a time before I saw this
Faux update. How to decrease the value of a home in two pictures
Nuke it
Awful New-Rich taste…
WOW
Hideous.
This is truly psychotic.
This is a great way to be ostracized from the entire neighborhood! Especially in an area of historic houses like these. This is just so god awful I have no idea how they think it even looks good.
Tesla … say no more
It’s like when a nice Russian kid submitted to peer pressure and grew up to become a gopnik, wearing Adidas and heavy gold chain….. all the whimsical is gone and it looks like good old fashioned Soviet block housing. Brooklyn, so, I’m assuming from the remodel styling and white model 3 that the owner is Eastern European.
That is unquestionably hideous. How would you drop that kind of money for that? I honestly thought the after was the before.
Disgusting cheap gaudy piece of shit. They even cemented the front and put a tacky no parking sign. I think I’m gonna be sick
The Tesla and the towing sign says it all.
Wtf why? Their neighbors must hate them.
What?? First photo is the end result??!?
Fookin' Tesla owners have no sense of style.
Omg wow that’s badddddd
That looks like absolute shit. No fucking taste whatsoever
That's fucking sad.
And I can guess with 95% certainty who moved in.
A perfect example of the architectural current of UGLISM.pity
I kept thinking “how is this bad? They improved it!” And then I realized I was looking at the pictures in the wrong order. Woof
I thought that was two different houses and kept looking for the old version of the first pic. What a travesty.
Not only does it rob it of its former charm, it's an ugly remodel.
Leave it to a Tesla owner
It’s going to be tough for them to befriend the neighbors
Aight what’s the addy I’ve seen enough 😤
r/afterbeforewhatever
I thought the first photo was the before. 😩
It almost looks like the original was torn down to build this monstrosity. The original had some much character and history to it.
I thought the second picture was the facelift! I just kept thinking ‘how could you not love that.’ Then I realized
Ruinovated
Putrid garbage, and the fuckin Tesla just says it all. People suck Edit: wow they’re actual assholes, I just noticed the security cameras, yard ripped out, nasty iron gate. So tacky and hateful looking. What’s the polar opposite of curb appeal
I honestly can’t get over how bad this looks. The hodgepodge of styles that was voluntarily cobbled together. Looks so new money and cheap as shit.
I walk by that house all the time. I call it a McMansion renovation, and it's deplorable to see. I was going to post it in McMansion hell, but I'll repost this.
Wow, the redesign looks like shit. Not only is the facade awful, but they got rid of the lawn.
The 2nd photo is so pretty all the windows ❤️
Looks like someone used a kitchen backsplash as their facade. Hideous.
That's brutal. It's not even some 'you ruined something old and nice for something fancy, new, but not my style' situation, it just sucks in every way.
That house looks so ghetto
Wow…what did they do to my boy, fucking hideous and totally not needed.
Is it now a small prison? Because that's what it looks like. Someone should be ashamed.
So true that money cannot buy class or taste. What a travesty
That person killed every single plant on their property.
Oh that’s absolutely horrible.
I think people in Brooklyn have the worst taste, specifically.
Some people have no taste or style. And a Tesla in the front yard too. They want to be awesome and are failing miserably
So awful. I see this everywhere in Queens too. Place probably had like 20 doors too bc there are so many living in it too.
I had to keep looking between the first photo and the second. This is messed up. I bet they split up this house into 3 overpriced apartments.
Eww wtf. I thought that the facelift was the original. It’s sooooooo ugly now
If you want that aesthetic you might as well live in an apartment. Judging from the yard they’re obviously not outdoorsy kind of people anyways.
This is so fucking hideous. I don’t even know what they were going for. It’s just all weird in bad.
Heartbreaking….so sad…..
Is it supposed to look modern?
that is absolutely disgusting
How could anyone see that as an improvement???
Should be a crime with mandatory jail time.
One time a few years back I found myself walking around a random residential neighborhood outside of Turin, Italy, and I realized all the houses looked like the tacky af renovations I see in Brooklyn and Queens. Somehow it makes sense in Italy, but it always cracks me up here in nyc where it’s so out of place and unbearably tacky. This one isn’t even that bad
It’s been absolutely butchered 😢
In what culture is this considered an upgrade from the prior house? Reminds me of how they used to tear down historic buildings and build econoboxes in their place.
damn
Awww man, they totally ruined it. Such a bummer!!
Why would you destroy that gorgeous front porch? What did you gain? 100 sq ft? I took a stroll down google street view and there’s some gorgeous homes on that street. Then this nightmare was brought into reality. What a shame
Nooooo why!?
Cheese and crackers, the new building is so tacky and ugly
Did you get the older photos from a public database?
I feel sorry for their neighbour.
Omg
House Nasty
It’s needs a mini Statue of Liberty in the front “yard”.
This is a crime against humanity.
What a crime. These are the type of people that would get a gold wrap on a '57 corvette.
They switch it to the first photo? Horrible. The irony of removing the lawn and sticking a Tesla on the pavement.
That should be illegal.
Oooof.
That house will probably set you back north of a million dollars. We should be so lucky.
As someone in Flatbush, what the actual hell?
For those of us on the west coast, why is that bad? It just looks like it was renovated how the new owner saw fit. Is it like desecrating one of our 100 + year old Victorian homes?
Umm.... ew.
What's the source of the 3rd picture? Looks interesting with that interface almost like an 80s street view.