Spring 2007 House Tour Schedule

Thanks for running this Mr. B.

June 3rd is actually the Prospect Lefferts Gardens Tour. It's sponsored by the Lefferts Manor Association, but includes houses throughout PLG. In addition to several LM houses, this year's tour will have homes on Clarkson and Parkside Avenues, streets outside of "the Manor" (and outside the Historic District, aslthough IMO these streets SHOULD have been designated).

Posted by: Bob Marvin at April 3, 2007 10:53 AM

I didn't know about the Carrol Gardens/Cobble Hill HT. It's not on the "consortium" house tour card. Both neighborhoods used to have their own house touirs, but IIRC it's at least 10 years since Cobble Hill had a tour and probably 30 years since Carroll Gardens had one--welcome back!

Posted by: Bob Marvin at April 3, 2007 11:01 AM

Ft Greene and Clinton Hill DO alternate, as anon. 11:54 pointed out.
AFAIK the Boerum Hill tour is every other year.
I imagine Mr.B only intended to list the Spring tours. According to the house tour post cards, put out for the last 12 years by a consortium of neighborhood groups running tours, the Fall tours are as follows:

Crown Heights North--Sun., Oct. 6th
Prospect Heights--Sun., Oct. 14th
Bedford Stuyvesant--Sat., Oct 20

These cards are available (I hope) at Borough Hall. In my neighborhood there's a supply at K-Dog on Lincoln Road. I'm sure they will be at similar places in other brownstone neighborhoods.

Posted by: Bob Marvin at April 3, 2007 1:33 PM

"Its about time THEY are doing Carroll Gardens and Cobbile Hill"

Comments like this drive me crazy. While I agree with the poster about the beauty of CG/CH, I suspect he/she has no idea how much work is involved in a house tour. If you live in a brownstone neighborhood and think housetours are important it's incumbent on you to DO something about it--THEY is US.

Posted by: Bob Marvin at April 3, 2007 2:06 PM

I'm not sure I was entirely on point with my last ((2:06) comment. After working with neighborhood associations for many years I can get a bit testy with suggestions that "you people" should do something. However, that might not have been what anon. 1:51 meant--he/she might have merely been pleased, as am I,that Cobble Hill/Carroll Gardens is having a tour. If that's the case, I apologise.

Posted by: Bob Marvin at April 3, 2007 4:09 PM

I've been in contact with people organizing house tours in brownstone Brooklyn for a long time--the problems NeoGrec mentions are universal. It's increasingly hard to get people willing to show their houses and there are a LOT of volunteers needed for tour day (over 100 in my neighborhood, for example).

Posted by: Bob Marvin at April 4, 2007 3:04 PM