Wow, I could almost feel sorry for them. The key word here is "almost"

Posted by: STARGAZER at November 23, 2009 10:26 AM in response to Moving From Dyker Hts to a Williamsburg Condo

The floor plans are horrible. I have yet to figure out where to put a kitchen table with 4 chairs.
People still use a table now days, don't they??????

Posted by: STARGAZER at November 23, 2009 10:23 AM in response to Forte Reboot Priced to Sell

You gotta be kidding. This is horrible. Who are these architects that make out these floor plans.
The kitchen, that is what it is?? is awful.

I wouldnt give 2 cents to live there.

yuck, yuck, yuck. !!

Posted by: STARGAZER at November 19, 2009 4:32 PM in response to Co-op of the Day: 150 Joralemon Street, #5F

Oh yes, it looks great. A job well done.

BTW, I hate awnings, it blocks out my sunlight.

Posted by: STARGAZER at November 19, 2009 4:27 PM in response to Development Watch: Turnaround at 424 Waverly Avenue

The glass views on Carroll will be the back of a few of the tenements there. I wouldnt think that is something the new owners would want to look at.
On the other hand, living in the tenements it might be fun to watch all the new tennants in thier cages......walking back and forth.

Oh, and how do you clean the walls of glass from the outside... what good is a view with dirty windows??????

Posted by: STARGAZER at November 19, 2009 9:34 AM in response to Development Watch: 580 Carroll Gets Its Glass On

Wow, balconys on 4th Ave, what a view.

ugh, you gotta be kidding, soot all over ~!!!

Posted by: STARGAZER at November 18, 2009 2:06 PM in response to Trouble At at Fourth Avenue Tower-to-Be

another freakin ugly building by Gregory Rigas, the owner.

he should be beaten

Posted by: STARGAZER at November 18, 2009 2:04 PM in response to It Came From 4th Ave!

Awful, The buildings these days are really ugly.
I am so sick of seeing the name Fedders scream at me 500 times I look at a building.
You would think that the Fedders compnay could make air-conditioner covers that would come in a variety of colors to match the facades of buildings.

They really are ugly.

At least the old tenements did have fancy stone work on the outside.

Posted by: STARGAZER at November 18, 2009 10:06 AM in response to Development Watch: Grandma's House No More

Remember the LL isn't God, he isn't your employer, he doesn't sign your paychecks.
He is a nothing to you.
get his info and call him directly, tough shit on the super.

Posted by: STARGAZER at November 18, 2009 10:00 AM in response to Contacting Landlord

Why did she let the building get to the point it is now? It must be like this for decades.
If it were re-habed,seems like a gold mine in real estate to me.

Posted by: STARGAZER at November 17, 2009 3:27 PM in response to Doings at the Dilapidated 7th Ave & 2nd St Building?

I would take Brooklyn over Manhattan any day or night of the week.

This apartment is very nice, I can actually see a reasonable space to put a table with 4 chairs instead of a bar with 2 stools.

Posted by: STARGAZER at November 17, 2009 3:18 PM in response to Co-op of the Day: 130 8th Avenue, #7C

I want to live there. I love Rapelye Street. I too have been there numerous times on my bicycle. I love it, a little desolate down there, but I too like that.
The little park there is cute and for some reason you really do not hear that much noise from the BQE.

Oh how I wish I had a million, I would by this property in a flash.

Posted by: STARGAZER at November 17, 2009 2:10 PM in response to House of the Day: 121 Rapelye Street

What idiots are designing these apartments.

Posted by: STARGAZER at November 17, 2009 12:21 PM in response to Development Watch: S#!tbox on Underhill

It is not the LL responsibility to put bars on windows. If you feel that unsafe you should not be living in a first or ground floor apartment.

Also, if you want bars, just get them yourself, that really is a no brainer
I wouldn't keep my safety in the hands of the LL.

Posted by: STARGAZER at November 17, 2009 12:11 PM in response to First Floor Apartment Security?

The same old awful layouts. Ugh, can they come up with something better than the 2 room thing???
I am so sick of the freaking kitchen cabinets in with the living room. For a one bedroom it looks like just 2 measley rooms to me.
Whatever happened to 3 room apartments with a regular size kitchen, a bedroom, a living room duh !!!

Do the architects ever think about furniture placement with all their plans?
apparantly not !

Posted by: STARGAZER at November 13, 2009 12:48 PM in response to Brooklyn Gold Joins the Downtown Rental Party

This has to be the ugliest building on 4th Ave, and they are all ugly, but this one takes the cake. The silver windows are horriffice. I also agree with everyone else, yellow bricks should be abolished. They are sickening. The railings are also horriffic. I just hate thie look of this building

I believe the owner of this building is the owner of the skinny brown building on Carroll and 4th, and also the owner of the red brick buildings on 4th and President.

Apparantly he has no taste to design.

Posted by: STARGAZER at November 13, 2009 12:36 PM in response to 574 4th Avenue: The Full Monty

The kitchen is way too small, the bedroom next to it should have been a part of the kitchen.
the foyer is all dead space.

Posted by: STARGAZER at November 12, 2009 2:35 PM in response to Co-op of the Day: 40 Clarkson Avenue, #4F

The stairs should be on the side with the front door because it makes for furniture placement a little hard. the Living Room looks like one big zig zag.
And I want a bathroom window please !!!

Posted by: STARGAZER at November 12, 2009 2:32 PM in response to House of the Day: 540 4th Street

Denton,

a bath with a window is third world, we have electricity...

What does electricity have to do with it.
Hello, open window = fresh ait.

wasnt it a law back in the day with tenements that every room had to have a window for light and ventilation???
I guess that law is abolished because the ugky new construction, never give bathroom and kitchen windows.

Posted by: STARGAZER at November 12, 2009 11:53 AM in response to Condo of the Day: 110 Livingston Street, #8O

the layouts are crappy.
why must the kitchen be put in the living room, actually it looks like it is one big kitchen and there is no Living Room.

i do not like the windows, can you clean them from the outside??? and a bathroom window would have been nice too, since that is the one room where ventilation is really needed, forget about the exaust fans, duh !!!

Posted by: STARGAZER at November 11, 2009 3:40 PM in response to Inside Third & Bond: Week 96

Don't we think that most if not all of the tenements and Brownstones built here in Brooklyn all have lead paint buried beneath 1000 coats of paint?

Surely after so many coats of paint, the lead must be sealed......

If the tennant signed some sort of release knowing that the shutters contains lead that should cover the LL arse????

and since the tennants like the shutters and seem to be taking care of them, the lead shouldn't beleaking out.....

Posted by: STARGAZER at November 11, 2009 2:32 PM in response to Keeping Brownstone Shutters?

Well if the ground was just filled in with dirt and the grass and trees wouldn't that seal off the contaminates from reaching the air? That is what I meant.

Sorry Pete, I must have mis-understood.

Actually if the canal were to be really cleaned with good water flow and cafes and stuff like they have in Europe it would make for a nice place to go. I believe Barry (forget the last name) did a walk through Brooklyn with David Hartman a few years ago and said, hmmm, maybe the Venice of Brooklyn.....ah, that really would be good.....
let me dream............

Posted by: STARGAZER at November 11, 2009 2:23 PM in response to To Superfund or Not To Superfund, That Is The Question

Could the Living Room Dining Room Kitchen area be any smaller. I just hate with a passion the open room concept, It is just shoving 2 rooms into 1. There really never is room for a regular kitchen table and chairs. Doesn't anyone eat at a regular table any more???...and what about doing 'things" that require a table......

I don't like the windows either, and heaven forbid there is ever a window in the bathroom, which IMO is the room fresh air is really welcomed, because the exuast fans never work properly.

so much money....... what a sin!!!!

Posted by: STARGAZER at November 11, 2009 2:16 PM in response to Condo of the Day: 110 Livingston Street, #8O

Waste of time and money.

Just fill the canal in once and for all and call it a day. The canal has been an eyesore and a problem for decades. The area is crappy. If it was filled in and grass and trees were there at least we can have more green space without a building on every single morsel of land.

Posted by: STARGAZER at November 11, 2009 10:25 AM in response to To Superfund or Not To Superfund, That Is The Question

I don't think living around Bars and Restaurants is such a great idea.
Bars attract noise as well as restaurants.....
...and for that price, I want quiet, not some dumb bitch screaming at her boyfriend in front of a bar...

Posted by: STARGAZER at November 5, 2009 12:19 PM in response to Price Cuts at 272 St. Marks Avenue

one word comes to mind....Horrible !!!they arent even worth 100K

Posted by: STARGAZER at November 5, 2009 11:07 AM in response to Price Cuts at 156 Pulaski Street

I have passed this house many, many times, and I truly wish I could park in the garage and go in......oops, its not my house....
I absolutely love everything about it !!!!

Posted by: STARGAZER at November 3, 2009 12:21 PM in response to Bay Ridge McMansion

Carroll Garden's is beautiful neighborhood. Everything should stay the way it is. We do not need freakin' high rises, retail and restaurants everywhere. This is a neighborhood.

This is a neighborhood, not office tower city. Look at 4th Ave already, yucksville.......

Posted by: STARGAZER at October 29, 2009 12:08 PM in response to Carroll Gardens Downzoning Sails Through Council

Whats with thiose crazy windows, I get dizzy just looking at it.
and lets not forget, how do the people clean them from the outside//?????

Posted by: STARGAZER at October 26, 2009 10:14 AM in response to From Flicks to Fischer on 15th Street

another hotel, oh goodie, just what gowanus needs.

Posted by: STARGAZER at October 23, 2009 11:07 AM in response to Development Watch: 3rd Ave Hotel Trucking Along

How do they get cleaned from the outside?

Posted by: STARGAZER at October 23, 2009 10:58 AM in response to Tilt & Turn

liv and din have no windows. why would you make an office in the front of the house and take away the windows, then 2 small windows on the side of the building in the kitchen.
apparently no one was thinking about light and ventilation here.

Posted by: STARGAZER at October 22, 2009 9:17 AM in response to House of the Day: 544 Washington Avenue

It is ugly, so very ugly. The location is sucky, like who wants to listen to the expressway when the windows are open.

They could have picked out better looking bricks. The tan ones, well.....vomit.

Posted by: STARGAZER at October 22, 2009 9:09 AM in response to Development Watch: 574 4th Avenue

I agree with NSS, just fill the canal in already. It has been such a problem and an eyesore for decades.
The canal is gross. Make a park above it with grass and trees. Why must every morsel of land have to have a building on it???

Posted by: STARGAZER at October 21, 2009 12:36 PM in response to EPA, Bloomberg Compete to Clean Gowanus

to small, to expensive.
where do I put my kitchen table that maybe someday 4 people will sit??????

Posted by: STARGAZER at October 19, 2009 3:26 PM in response to Co-op of the Day: 2 Grace Court, #4T

Pioneer Street is cute, a little gritty and has that old world charm, I think.
I have rode my bicycle there several times and felt safe. I kinda liked the block.

There is no trains around though, which kinda sucks. The whole area is a little desolate which can be a good/ bad thing depending on what you like. The pj's are near by. Ikea plaza is close, that is nice.

I did not like the layout of the home on Pioneer, the Bathroon upstairs had a seperate toilet area and across the hall was the tub. Don't think so, not to mention no window, yuck.

I too do not like the open kitchen at all. When I am in my living room, I like to think relaxing, comfort, serenity.
I see my kitchen as kaos, cooking, washing machine going, computer, there is always something going on, because that is what a kitchen is for.

and why no, in the year 2009 are people so worried about talking to thier guests while they are cooking.... hopefully my guests will just come over and bringfood, and I could just eat it... LOL

Posted by: STARGAZER at October 19, 2009 11:56 AM in response to Open House Picks

yes, I know what you mean. Truthfully it really is a horrific color, especially for a brownstone. What would ever possess a person to even imagine painting a Brownstone pink, is beyond me.
But after so many years of seeing it, I think it is just the pink house on the block, it kinda makes a conversation piece. But at least it is taken care of and not painted pink and left to deterioate over the years. The owner does seem to keep it as "pink" as possible.....

Posted by: STARGAZER at October 16, 2009 10:28 AM in response to Owner Takes Park Slope's Pink House Off Market

This layout actually makes sense. You can eve arrange furniture properly.
it is nice and refreshing to see a window in the bathroom and kitchen.
I do like this one.

Posted by: STARGAZER at October 15, 2009 2:01 PM in response to Co-op of the Day: 310 Windsor Place, #26

I feel like the important rooms did not have windows in them.

I hate it !

Posted by: STARGAZER at October 15, 2009 1:55 PM in response to House of the Day: 295 Pacific Street Revisited

If you buy quality sheets, they will last like 15 years.
I don't know what thread count you are buying for summer sheets to last 1 season, I also do not get Humid brownstone????

Posted by: STARGAZER at October 15, 2009 12:40 PM in response to Streetlevel: Laytner's Latest Location is in the Slope

Oh yippie, another fedders special.
Oh, I just cant wait.............

Posted by: STARGAZER at October 13, 2009 3:11 PM in response to Development Watch: 433 3rd Avenue, Now and Later

This is a totally crappy layout. The realtor description is making it sound like a wonderland. Where would the furniture be placed. I would not need nor want 2 door ways into the bathroom.

Maybe if people would stop buying these crappy apartments for these insane prices, possibly the prices would go down.

This is not even worth 50K. ...and how did the maintenance be over 1K, are you kidding???

Posted by: STARGAZER at October 13, 2009 2:52 PM in response to Co-op of the Day: 39 Plaza Street West

2 lanes of traffic? and where are all the cars going to go?
The rendering looks cool, but not realistic. Like duh, who wants to set up a lounge chair and read a book in the median of 4th Ave.
I have to laugh now.

Posted by: STARGAZER at October 9, 2009 2:06 PM in response to New Visions of 4th Avenue & 9th Street

2 lanes of traffic? and where are all the cars going to go?
The rendering looks cool, but not realistic. Like duh, who wants to set up a lounge chair and read a book in the median of 4th Ave.
I have to laugh now.

Posted by: STARGAZER at October 9, 2009 1:55 PM in response to New Visions of 4th Avenue & 9th Street

Sorry but I can't imagine anyone poor or rich paying thier hard earned money to live in that dump, because that's exactly what it is, a dump.

I can't even begin to think that somehow the inside of the apartment was even remotley nice even when the LL was alive.

MM, I don't buy what you say....

Posted by: STARGAZER at October 9, 2009 1:44 PM in response to No Water for Two Months in Bed-Stuy Building

oh please, the bar will be soon razed, and another building will butt up against that fugly building put up by Gregory Rigas, the owner. He already owns the red brick buildings on President & 4th, so I'm sure he has his eye on the the site of the bar...

Hopefully he will get an architect with some taste because his buildings are freakkkin ugly.

Posted by: STARGAZER at October 9, 2009 1:27 PM in response to StreetLevel: Bar Great Harry Spinoff Opening on 4th Ave

The area is really kinda remote. I have been there a few times on my bicycle, but to walk around, there is absolutely nothing there.

Its under the highway, kinda bleak, but if you go west then it becomes cobble hill and the area picks up much better.

Posted by: STARGAZER at October 9, 2009 9:56 AM in response to One Brooklyn Bridge: On the Retail Hunt

Are you nuts, that's a fire hazzard.

I would never ever, ever, want anyone to bar-b-q' ing on my roof, and since I live on the top floor, I am not kidding.

What would even make a person think it would be OK to do that.
Fire is not a freakkking joke !!!

Posted by: STARGAZER at October 8, 2009 11:51 AM in response to BBQ on the Roof

It is a tenement and it is way overpriced for that location.
Funny my Grandmother lived in a tenement like that in Sunset park, 5 railroad rooms, 2 windows in front, 2 windows in back and paid like 90 bucks back in the day.....

Hard to even comprehend that a tenement could be worth anything in the 100's of thousands. I like them, but we all know that deep down they were built as tenements and will crumble (if ever) as tenements, no matter what any realtor says.

Posted by: STARGAZER at October 8, 2009 11:18 AM in response to Condo of the Day: 445 3rd Avenue, #201

The floor plans are horrible. How do you clean the windows from the outside? The area is gritty, which depending on the person could be OK. But it really isnt one of the better blocks and I could care leass what any realtor would say.

Posted by: STARGAZER at October 8, 2009 11:04 AM in response to More Price Cuts at The Satori