Scenes from the Brooklyn Heights House Tour

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16 Sidney Place
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33 Willow Place
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41 Garden Place
Brooklyn Heights House Tour Saturday [Brownstoner]
House and Gardens Open Up [NY Times]

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I loved the Willow St house

Posted by: Anonymous at May 15, 2006 10:45 AM

Willow Place I mean!

Posted by: Anonymous at May 15, 2006 10:46 AM

Is anyone with me on this? Nobody lives in that house.It is the pure imagination of some design obsessed trustafarian from far away. Did anyone notice that all the pre-pubescent fantasy pictures in the "teenage girls" bedroom which were artfully stuck around the walls and ceiling were all ripped from the same magazine. More the work of a television stylist than the fantasy of a thirteen year old girl, surely.I found the whole place a little bit creepy and when I heard all the women I know saying that they loved it....okay, but could you live there? No! Will it look good in a glossy magazine? Yes!
If this house were a person, she would be an impossibly pretty skinny supermodel.

Posted by: Fishimp at May 15, 2006 11:02 AM

well, I know the family that lives there so I guess I need to disagree with you. so sorry, surely, but you are wrong

Posted by: Anonymous at May 15, 2006 11:07 AM

The one on Sydney Place is on the mkt with Brown Stevens Harris at $4.5 mln.

Posted by: Anonymous at May 15, 2006 11:13 AM

Agreed--Willow place was dreamy; the owners really respected the clean lines of the house when they did the interior. The air of elegant restraint extended to the garden--I'd love to know where they got their plantings.

Posted by: Megan at May 15, 2006 11:23 AM

I liked seeing the Middagh St -- I always like to see the modern gut jobs -- but I my heart still belongs to last year's modern renovation in that carriage house on College Lane

Posted by: Anonymous at May 15, 2006 11:27 AM

What number house on Middagh st. and what was it like. I missed the tour, but homes on that are nice.

Posted by: Anonymous at May 15, 2006 12:20 PM

Is BedSty having a house tour, and if so when? I don't see it list in the NYT listing.

Posted by: annonymous at May 15, 2006 12:43 PM

Bed Stuy House Tour is always the third Saturday in October, so that would be Oct 21st this year.

Tickets and starting point has traditionally been at Boy's High School on the corner of Marcy and Putnam.

Posted by: Brower Park at May 15, 2006 1:36 PM

That's strange how BedSty has theirs in the Fall. It looks like everyone else has theirs in the Spring..odd.

Posted by: anon at May 15, 2006 3:46 PM

Bed Stuy has to wait until it gets cold so all the dudes hangin' out drinking and blaring music from their cars have gone inside for the winter.

Posted by: Anonymous at May 15, 2006 4:37 PM

Anon 4:37,
Actually, I think the Bedford Stuyvesant tour (and also the one in Prospect Heights) are traditionally in the Fall because there's so much competition for Spring dates. Even with those two neighborhoods' tours in Oct. (21st for BS, 15th for PH) there are still some Spring tours on the same date (PLG & the Brownstone Garden tour on June 4th. (OK--one of them isn't a HOUSE tour) and Flatbush and Boerum Hill on June 11th).

When I first started working on this stuff there were even more tours (Carroll Gardens, Sunset Park, Cobble Hill, Greenpoint, and a second PS tour for a few years on 6th Street, which dubbed itself the "Brazen Little Block" Needless to say,scheduling wasn't easy.

Posted by: Bob Marvin at May 15, 2006 6:24 PM

When there is great weather, as there was last year, fall is a wonderful time for the Bed Stuy house tour. The leaves are just beginning to change, and BS has many tree lined blocks, and astors and mums are in bloom, and the neighborhood is at its best. The combination of brick, brownstone, woodwork, and fall earthtones seem perfect to me. Since BS is so large, walking the tour really provides you with an invigorating experience. They also provide free shuttle bus service between far flung points on the tour.

Posted by: Brower Park at May 15, 2006 7:09 PM

It was a joke Bob. Fall is a lovely time for a tour...

Posted by: Anonymous at May 16, 2006 12:17 AM

Anonymous 12:17 AM.

Thanks for letting me know--sometimes its hard to tell just what's a joke on the internet.

Posted by: Bob Marvin at May 16, 2006 10:03 AM

I was walking around Sidney Place during the tour and had to keep directing people to the Street... no one could find it. Still, I love Brooklyn Heights.

Posted by: Joy at May 17, 2006 10:57 AM

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Scenes from the Brooklyn Heights House Tour

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