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February 11, 2008

Monday Blogwrap

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I always thought that was a might fine looking building. Does anybody know if it has an elevator?

Posted by: guest at February 11, 2008 4:57 PM

really beautiful building.

too bad more people can't see past all their ridiculous stereotypes to realize how gorgeous most of park slope really is.

Posted by: guest at February 11, 2008 5:16 PM

Just speaking for myself, what I couldn't see past was the ugly Haagen Daz and Sprint awnings.

Posted by: guest at February 11, 2008 5:38 PM

Yeah I've always admired that building. I'd love to know more about it.

Posted by: guest at February 11, 2008 5:39 PM

5:38...notice you left out the adorable little loom store in between sprint and haagen daaz.

glass half empty, much?

i happen to like haagen daaz. and i do my mobile business with spring, so nice to have them as well. only location in the slope, as far as i know.

Posted by: guest at February 11, 2008 5:48 PM

cell phone stores are the new shoe repair stores.

in 50 years they will be vintage and cool and everyone will be bitching about their closing.

Posted by: Santa at February 11, 2008 8:17 PM

Isn't the Boerum Hill gun shot vandalism on the block of the $3.25 million reno'd house?

Posted by: guest at February 11, 2008 9:34 PM

I've always felt the zoning laws should be changed in Park Slope to allow buildings of that height to line the avenues. It's a perfect example how a mid-rise building does nothing but enhance the area. Had the depression not occurred, all of Seventh Avenue would be lined with similar buildings today.

Yes, the building has an elevator, and yes, it is greatly "out of context" with the neighborhood.

Posted by: Polemicist at February 12, 2008 9:31 AM

Often, not much. "Much" regards an amount. Frequency requires "often".
Tsk.

"Glass half-empty often?"

Posted by: guest at February 12, 2008 10:04 AM

"Had the depression not occurred, all of Seventh Avenue would be lined with similar buildings today."

Really? All of Seventh Avenue was built up long before the GD.

Posted by: guest at February 12, 2008 10:55 AM

The car shooting happened in 76th precint (Cobble Hill/Carroll Gardens) and not in Boerum Hill (84th precinctO. The car's owners live in Boerum Hill. So, no, the shooting did not occur on Dean St. where the $3.25 mm house is located.

Posted by: guest at February 12, 2008 10:57 AM

10:55

First of all, I wouldn't call 50 years "long", considering most readers here want to "preserve" neighborhoods that were developed to their current state almost a century ago. Secondly, the way things used to work is obsolete (in terms of density) buildings would be knocked down and replaced with larger buildings. Once upon a time, all of Midtown was filled with townhouses. Now it is filled with office buildings. The Upper East Side was once townhouses and tenaments, now it's high rise apartment buildings.

This building, like most larger apartment buildings in Park Slope, was constructed in the 1920s. A townhouse undoubtedly stood on the site previously.

The point is however, the replacement of townhouses with multifamily apartment buildings pretty much stopped after the depression in Brooklyn. We have still yet to match the level of construction that went on the 1920s. That was truly the last time there was a building boom in this borough.

Posted by: Polemicist at February 12, 2008 1:04 PM

Gee, 5:48, I am so sorry to hear that you have an account with spring (sic). I used to, but got tired of paying roaming charges for calls made from far-away Clinton Hill. Maybe the service is better now, but I am so much happier with Verizon that I am making this uncompensated, unaffiliated testimonial. When it comes to my cellphone service, my glass runneth over.

Posted by: guest at February 12, 2008 1:50 PM

Sprint was just rated the top mobile service provider in the U.S.

Least amount of dropped calls, highest clarity.

Posted by: guest at February 12, 2008 4:55 PM

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