Admiring 1024 Dean Street

love it.

my only complaint are those horrible white child guards up on the top floor windows.

really unsightly.

Posted by: guest at March 4, 2008 11:32 AM

this is the fault of NIMBYS. Without them we could of had a nice glass cube instead.

Posted by: guest at March 4, 2008 11:34 AM

11:32 AM

The owners, a super swell couple, have a two year old. sometimes safety trumps style.

Posted by: guest at March 4, 2008 11:50 AM

Um 11:32 AM
"Really unsightly"

Yeah, rip em off, let the kids fall

Posted by: guest at March 4, 2008 11:52 AM

Never said to take them down.

Just said they were ugly is all.

Calm down.

When you start a phrase with "um" it makes you sound like a moron.

Posted by: guest at March 4, 2008 11:55 AM

When you use the word moron, it makes you sound like a 12yr old

Posted by: guest at March 4, 2008 12:01 PM

um makes you sound like an 8 year old.

Posted by: guest at March 4, 2008 12:05 PM

ummm the both of youz are morons!

Posted by: guest at March 4, 2008 12:07 PM

Never seen this place in person, but just looking at these pix, this appears to be an absolutely beautiful conversion.

Developers and contractors, and others in charge of making decisions on replacement windows, please take a long look here. Notice how the windows look absolutely first-rate? Like the real deal original sash windows? And not squared-off at the top as is the usual case?

Makes a big difference. This place looks great, and the windows are a very important aspect of why it looks successful.

Can anyone tell me - Are the lintels all original or were they rebuilt?

Posted by: guest at March 4, 2008 12:14 PM

Where are the idiots who are going to quote crime stats and comment on this "fringe" area. Come on, idiots, we know you are out there.

Posted by: guest at March 4, 2008 12:31 PM

Here are a couple of articles on the project:

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0CE7D71E3FF931A1575BC0A9629C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all

http://www.metropolismag.com/cda/story.php?artid=154

Posted by: guest at March 4, 2008 12:32 PM

um, this building will be worthless once AY is built. morons.

Posted by: guest at March 4, 2008 12:45 PM

This Building is great. The owners did most of the work it is featured in the following book, which all you Brownstoners should dig...

The book itself should be featured on the site as it is all about residential Brooklyn living. I believe it should be available soon..

Photographed by Yoko Inoue
Written by Diana Lind
Published by Rizzoli

Brooklyn Modern
Written by Diana Lind and Robert Ivy, Contribution by Robert Ivy, Photographed by Yoko Inoue

Hardcover, 226 pages
Rizzoli | Architecture; House & Home - Decorating
April 2008 | $45.00 | 978-0-8478-3043-5 (0-8478-3043-8)

Posted by: guest at March 4, 2008 12:48 PM

Dear Brownstoner:

Please discontinue your drives through Crown Heights. Your posts are giving away all of our neighborhood secrets, which have thus far kept away most of the "fringe-area" sycophants. We'd prefer to keep it that way.

Those ARE terraces, 11:58.

Posted by: guest at March 4, 2008 12:52 PM

"um" does make you sound moronic. its like starting a sentence "hellooo"

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

Um, hellooo!

Posted by: guest at March 4, 2008 1:35 PM

11:32

Splattered child is hard to scrape off of the sidewalk and even more "unsightly." There should definitely be a "Stupidest Comment of the Day" award. You should be today's recipient.

Posted by: guest at March 4, 2008 2:00 PM

Wait, is this a one family building? Or apartments?

Posted by: guest at March 4, 2008 2:26 PM

This is an odd area. It's close to Downtown Brooklyn and subways but is full of old warehouses and empty lots. I'd say it's dangerous but it does not look like it gets much foot traffic as it's sparsely populated housing wise. Kind of like West Williams burg 10 years ago. Watch out here come the hipsters!

Posted by: guest at March 4, 2008 2:28 PM

"I'd say it's dangerous but it does not look like it gets much foot traffic as it's sparsely populated housing wise. Kind of like West Williams burg 10 years ago. Watch out here come the hipsters!"

HIPSTERS STAY AWAY!!!!! THIS IS A 'FRINGE' AREA!!!STAY AWAY!!!!!!!!STAY AWAY!!!!!!

Posted by: guest at March 4, 2008 2:40 PM

Dont a lot of people call this Prospect Heights when they dont want to freak out their manhattan visitors?

I just read the article and realized it's 6 units. Sorry about the question earlier.

Posted by: guest at March 4, 2008 2:40 PM

hha ahha ahha aa so wait, the architect/environmentalists (31 years old) are not considered hipsters?

And the artist studios that their adjacent properties will become -- those will not be populated by hipsters?

what pray tell do you call these people, then? Old timers? regular folk? Cause from where I'm standing, they look, work, talk, think etc. . . just like hipsters.

PLEASE correct me.

Posted by: guest at March 4, 2008 2:44 PM

They could be Amish. Nice building.

Posted by: guest at March 4, 2008 2:50 PM

"the architect/environmentalists (31 years old) are not considered hipsters?"

If they're real about what they're doing and cool with their new neighbors, and pick up after their dogs (like I do) they will be viewed as cool architects and environmentalists, not hipsters, and they will be welcomed. If they are trend-obsessed, superficial types who will try to put some stupid-ass "cool" name on the area, and view longtime residents as "threats," it's likely they are HIPSTERS. Those types should definitely STAY THE HELL AWAY! Glad we cleared that up.

Posted by: guest at March 4, 2008 2:54 PM

Difference between artist and hipsters

Artist want to create art and hopefully eek out a living.

Hipsters wanted to be artist but took 9-5 jobs instead.

Posted by: guest at March 4, 2008 3:00 PM

What about the Hupsters? Weren't they going to replace the Hipsters?

Posted by: guest at March 4, 2008 3:49 PM

"Dont a lot of people call this Prospect Heights when they dont want to freak out their manhattan visitors?"

Yes they do, blissfully unaware their Manhattan neighbors don't make no distinction betwen Crown Heights and Prospect Heights, and consider BOTH to be "fringe" neighborhoods, which they will gladly flee as soon as the party breaks up.

Posted by: guest at March 4, 2008 4:12 PM

nope we dont call that prospect heights.

me personally I always say prospect heights stops at underhill ave .

Posted by: guest at March 4, 2008 4:40 PM

if you're under 30 and dont wear jets windbreakers

you're obviously a hipster AM I RITE!!!!!!

Posted by: guest at March 4, 2008 5:33 PM

This building is a regular feature on the yearly green buildings tour run by GreenHomeNYC (greenhomenyc.org). Photos here: http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=ice%20house&w=23984389%40N00

Posted by: guest at March 4, 2008 9:26 PM