well, I would love to join you all for cocktails tonight except that most of you fall in one or more of the following catagories:
a)psychotic
b)sex addicts
c)babes lost in the woods
d)totally self-absorbed.
So I pass.

Posted by: Mrs de Dough at March 19, 2009 2:19 PM in response to Open Thread

The facility has been there forever but somehow it has never grown on people. It is just such an alien presence in the streetscape. Designed and built at the very lowest point of American urban awareness and sensitivity. I'm sure it is obsolete in terms of the interior layout and securty.
It is just an unloved building. Even corrections abandoned it years ago. I have a feeling this saga will continue.

Posted by: Mrs de Dough at March 19, 2009 11:56 AM in response to Split Decision on House of Detention

There is, or was a few years ago, a bus that goes up Myrtle Ave. It was so oovercrowded and uncomfortable I have never attempted to use it again.

Posted by: Mrs de Dough at March 19, 2009 11:50 AM in response to The Myrtle Miracle?

There's the Myrtle avenue bus.
The last time I rode, it was like a scene out of some Third World country where the population is fleeing in advance of some occupation force. It was not lovely. It was enough to put you off public transportation for ever actually.
Without a car, much of that area is pretty inconvenient.

Posted by: Mrs de Dough at March 19, 2009 11:38 AM in response to The Myrtle Miracle?

wow, what an HOD-friendly crowd!
Everyone gets political-correctness brownie points.
Yipeee!

Posted by: Mrs de Dough at March 19, 2009 10:25 AM in response to Split Decision on House of Detention

If it's your fence, then you can tell your neighbors you're just taking it down. Maybe then they will volunteer part ownership.

Posted by: Mrs de Dough at March 19, 2009 10:21 AM in response to Is this my fence???

I agree that this is a weird little Bohemian apartment with a Burgeoise price tag. I can't imagine it will go for anywhere near this price for a couple of years. It's a ridiculous layout.

Posted by: Mrs de Dough at March 18, 2009 4:59 PM in response to Co-op of the Day: 692 President Street

who is 11217?
The mayor of Park Slope?

Posted by: Mrs de Dough at March 18, 2009 2:57 PM in response to Co-op of the Day: 692 President Street

This is a triple-A location. Facades can be fixed.
First question: what kinds of tenants? Rent-reglated?
Over-63? If answer is yes to either of those questions, take off 500,000 on the asking price.
I like that dogleg in the rear yard. You could sell that off to the adjacent neighbors to lengthen their own yards for a prety penny.
This would be a great property to convert to a two, or three family.

Posted by: Mrs de Dough at March 18, 2009 2:46 PM in response to House of the Day: 52 Strong Place

Amazing, historic daguerreotypes from a distant, bygone era.
Forgive me for not sharing in the nostalgia for the seventies.
Brooklyn was situated at a rather low point in the nation's anatomy back then.

Posted by: Mrs de Dough at March 16, 2009 4:58 PM in response to Closing Bell: Brooklyn in the 1970's

The SCA is not up to the creative tasks some are calling for.
All one can realistically hope for is that the roof of the new school will not start to leak as soon as it opens. As has happened in other new schools in the City.

Posted by: Mrs de Dough at March 16, 2009 2:58 PM in response to SCA To Build New P.S. 133, Tear Down Old Building

i am torn over this. i agree this is a lovely old building, it could be turned into great apartments, but as a school, i think it is probably dingy and depressing not to mention hot in the summer. i went to a school like this. it was depressing. better to give the kids a bright new school with air conditioning and a really nice gym and all the rest. In the perfect world we could have both, but in this one I opt for a new school.

Posted by: Mrs de Dough at March 16, 2009 12:46 PM in response to SCA To Build New P.S. 133, Tear Down Old Building