Closing Bell: Raising the Roof on 2nd Street

"Just say no." Nancy R.

Posted by: guest at January 24, 2008 6:25 PM

Brooklyn, the borough of "me too's". Looks like a bunch of corporate sheep. Everything the same, no deviation from the norm. Very fascist.

Posted by: guest at January 24, 2008 6:38 PM

If you can't see it from the street, it's ok, right? So who cares?

Posted by: guest at January 24, 2008 6:43 PM

They should get a curb cut and a parking space out front, while they're at it.

Posted by: guest at January 24, 2008 7:39 PM

Cookie-cutter, conformist, mindless bandwagon hoppers. It's so funny and sad that these owners and renters in these suburban homes don't realize they live in the suburbs. So lame, they are the epitome of the pot calling the kettle black.

Posted by: guest at January 24, 2008 9:14 PM

Sameness is only a virtue to people who are timid and unimaginative.

Posted by: guest at January 24, 2008 9:51 PM

Nice #9:14PM. Ever notice the total flatness of townhouse & rowhouse Brooklyn? It's as flat as North Dakota! Well, we can all thank the selfish nimbys for that. And another thing, why is it that every townhouse and rowhouse owner and renters try to pass off their homes as a brownstone? Get over yourselves, the vast majority of you don't own brownstones; you own the white trash homes for during this time period. If you would like to what real successful people were buying during this time period, you only need to look in the city, 5th ave and comparable areas.

I'll take a 2,500 sf condo with high ceilings & thick concrete floors over your thin as a trailer park rowhouse with 5,000 sf any day!

Posted by: guest at January 25, 2008 1:37 AM

Condo living is like living with your parents. Time to grow up and get your own house.

Posted by: guest at January 25, 2008 8:39 AM

If you can't see it from the street, why should anyone else care what someone does to their property? If they built it without permission or it was visible from the street, that would be a problem. But if they go before the community board, they're clearly following all the regulations of DOB and Landmarks.

Posted by: guest at January 25, 2008 10:21 AM

Because, as just about everybody knows, there are a lot, a lot of unemployed nimbys in Brooklyn who have absolutely nothing better to do than to complain and scream about any little thing they can. It makes them feel important.

Posted by: guest at January 25, 2008 10:25 AM

Could their roof extension block sunlight to the houses and backyards on 1st Street? Has anyone ever built such an extension on the roof of a brownstone?

Posted by: guest at January 25, 2008 10:48 AM

can anyone confirm this is the house at 609 2nd Street sold last year to the Ravitch Family Trust. Richard Ravitch family--- NYC politician. I will put this out there..

Posted by: guest at January 25, 2008 11:27 AM

brownstoner living is like living with your grandparents

Posted by: guest at January 25, 2008 11:49 AM

You townhouse dissers seem to have wandered into the wrong blog. Perhaps you'd prefer Condoburger.com. Eejits.

Posted by: guest at January 25, 2008 2:13 PM

I like townhouses but god damn, some of the NIMBYs here are just plain stupid and very dangerous. I don't think people are against townhouses, they're just against all the entitlement attitudes.

Posted by: guest at January 25, 2008 2:42 PM

Townhouses are a dime a dozen in Brooklyn. Nothing out of the extraordinary or special. They were mass produced for the low to middle class.

Posted by: guest at January 25, 2008 4:34 PM