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We heard that about 40 people attended Christopher Gray’s one-hour walking tour of MacDonough Street in Stuyvesant Heights yesterday morning. If you missed it, you can still retrace his footsteps via his Streetscapes piece in the New York Times. Gray leads us down the four-block stretch from “1860s villa-style mansions to 1890s mass-produced brownstones.” Architecturally speaking, he writes, “The two groups from Nos. 323 to 333 are nothing special, except that excavation work at 329 caused the Department of Buildings to order it and No. 331 demolished in January, alarming neighborhood groups.” (As our own Montrose Morris wrote a couple of weeks ago, the homeowners, the community, the Landmarks Conservancy, and the HDC came together to do some emergency stabilization work to save the buildings. They may not be the prettiest facades on the block, but they are real people’s homes.) Gray also points out his favorites: “No. 160, with deeply weathered oak doors and mottled plant growth on the stonework, shows why the Restoration Hardware school of repro-history can be so unsatisfying — you cannot buy real age.”
An Architectural Encyclopedia [NY Times]
MacDonough St. Houses Report [Brownstoner]
Update on MacDonough Street [Brownstoner]
Salvation on MacDonough Street? [Brownstoner]
Stay of Execution on MacDonough Street [Brownstoner]
MacDonough Street Update [Brownstoner]
Wall Collapse, Vacate Order for Bed Stuy Houses [Brownstoner]