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Adventures in Ridiculous Architecture
Okay, you gotta check this out. This 12-foot-wide, single-family home at 613 East 89th Street in Canarsie was built mid-boom (2005-2006) and has been flirting with foreclosure for most of this year. (There’s a lien of $321,984 on the place.) Apparently, but not surprisingly, the developer was never able to find a buyer. Wonder why! Click through for the money shot. GMAP (more…)
12/16/2010 11:31 AM
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Horror Show Friday
These two charmers hail from Bed Stuy and Canarsie, respectively, and can be yours for the low, low prices of $439,000 and $550,000. Any takers?
BEAUTIFUL 2 FAMILY IN THE HEART OF BED STUY [Craigslist]
Huge 2 Family Brand New [Craigslist]
01/16/2009 11:30 AM
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Closing Bell: Canarsie, Circa 1980, on Flickr
Ah, the wonders of Flickr. We came across these photographic relics of an earlier Brooklyn: Canarise, 1980-81. Great hairdos, great buildings and the same popular Brooklyn logo. The photographer is gbSk.
11/25/2008 4:00 PM
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Canarsie: Hard Hit by Mortgage Crisis, and Changing
That’s the word from the NY Times, which gave Canarsie the Living In treatment yesterday. The leafy, suburban-ish neighborhood has suffered a high rate of foreclosures, many of them belonging to the Caribbean, Chinese or Russian immigrants who’ve flocked there as of late, they write; prices are drooping. Single-family houses have been giving way to higher density development, worrying some residents. As one said, “If you buy a house on a quiet block, ‘you don’t want the dude next door to come, knock down his house and put up a four-story building.’”
Living In: Canarsie [NY Times]
Photo by singingpixel.
10/13/2008 2:01 PM
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