Soundproofing Question

1:53: "I have to believe that lack of proximity to a train other than the G has to impact the prices that can be got for these houses."

I wish that idea were true for Greenpoint...

Posted by: deadnancy at September 6, 2007 2:49 PM in response to Kodachrome Building Open For Business

As I'm looking to buy something in Greenpoint (after renting for 13 years), I'm really getting a kick out of this article.

/ G train FTW!
// Which message board is this again?

Posted by: deadnancy at September 18, 2007 12:13 PM in response to Risky Business in Some Brooklyn Nabes?

"All 277 underground stations in the subway system are to be wired for cellphone use..."

Because if anything's more awesome than the screeching brakes of arriving trains, it's people trying to talk over the screeching brakes of arriving trains on their cell phones.

Posted by: deadnancy at September 20, 2007 2:24 PM in response to Thursday Links

The inflation calculators I found show 1888 prices of $30k and $60k to be about $650k and $1.3 million today.

Sweet deals, really.

Posted by: deadnancy at September 27, 2007 2:59 PM in response to Some levity--The More Things Change...

"If you're going to facilitate the violation of building codes, probably better not to advertise the fact to someone walking in off the street."

And yet in one Scarano building I visited, they played it up like a bonus. Several condos actually had two completely separate spaces, each with a door to the common hall. The broker seemed excited to tell me about all the extra space they managed to offer for the low low price of having to knock down a wall to connect the place before I could move in! They even designed it that way for my convenience! And then the basement had a drop ceiling that actually intersected a glass door to the back yard at about eye level (the center of the floor was lower than the sides). I'd get the full door back after I tore out and raised the ceiling. Just a little fun with the building inspector! Nudge nudge; wink wink...

And the same broker stopped returning my calls when I asked how many illegal Scarano 'fixes' would be needed in another place she wanted to show me. My bad, discussing open secrets I suppose.

Posted by: deadnancy at October 4, 2007 10:36 AM in response to 326 State Street: Fudging the Mezzanines

Greenpoint's mighty stench will be to the soulless Scaranos and Fischers trying to infiltrate our neighborhood what General Winter and Colonel Mud were to the Nazis during their invasion of the Soviet Union in World War II...

Posted by: deadnancy at October 11, 2007 11:02 AM in response to Thursday Links

This would be the same Avalon involved with all those soulless towers in Long Island City, right?

http://www.queenswest.com/riverview/pictures

Posted by: deadnancy at October 17, 2007 10:31 AM in response to So That's What Avalon Myrtle Will Look Like!

'...other projects in the works over in Greenpoint'???

That article's over two years old. As far as I know, Fischer's 15-story 60 Commercial Street tower, listed on his site as being completed last year, hasn't been started.

Here's hoping his equally ugly 200 Franklin Street finger and 50 Greenpoint Ave NJ office-park-looking condos (both completion: 2008) also get left in the rendering stage.

We've already got a Scarano Fedders house for old folks; no more starchitecture, please.

/Sorry about the threadjack...

Posted by: deadnancy at March 13, 2008 1:58 PM in response to Development Watch: 23 Caton Place

Greenpoint does get the occasional stench, but it always seems to be worst when the wind's blowing east. What's across the river in Manhattan that's so rank? It's got to be pretty fierce to compete with the sewage plant and the Newtown Creek...

And speaking of stink, I think this is the first Scarano building I've ever seen that actually fit the location. It's unsettling.

Posted by: deadnancy at April 3, 2008 5:47 PM in response to Condos of the Day: 118 Greenpoint Avenue

What the hell do we have a world's-largest oil spill for if it's not doing its job of keeping us de-Burg-ified? I notice the sewage plant and poisoned creek are similarly slacking lately.

Very disappointing.

Posted by: deadnancy at June 19, 2008 11:30 AM in response to Only a Matter of Time Before Greenpoint is Burg-ified?

Green glue = 50 year chalk
Green glue = ex$pen$ive / 50 year chalk = ¢heap

Posted by: guest at July 23, 2008 6:52 PM in response to Soundproofing Question

The channels Steve mentioned can work really well, or they can make matters worse if you install incorrectly.

Soundproofing is hard. The concepts are counterintuitive, it really pays to be meticulous. As Steve says, you can do a lot of really good work and foul it with one misstep.

Good luck!

Posted by: vanburenproud at July 23, 2008 8:55 PM in response to Soundproofing Question