DAMN! This thread pretty much verifies the "head-up-their-collective-tight-asses" mentality that permeates like rotting sewage in ye' olde community of hateful Bore-em. Do you guys know anything about what it takes to get an evacuated tube solar hot water system approved by the DOB? Do you know about the solar voltaic system that powers practically all the electric in there and feeds energy back to the grid for a profit? This development is a damn triumph over adversity and all you can say is "it's fugly." As for pricing, it's priced what other townhouses of equal size and stature go for in your ghetto-ass neighborhood so blame Halstead for that. Property value is based on taxation and what the market can deliver but in the case of valuation on a property like this, there aren't comparisons even remotely like it to make your standard assessments. Anyway, didn't mean to rant, I'm just glad I don't live near any of you.

Posted by: Greenpointer at October 31, 2009 11:21 AM in response to Listings Up For 93 Nevins Street

S. 5th between Berry and Bedford under the Williamsburg bridge has a row of new trees. Now that street doesn't seem quite the "rapist row" anymore... it's for eco-rapists now.

Posted by: Greenpointer at July 22, 2009 1:11 PM in response to New Trees in Bed Stuy

A surface well scratched with this topic.

One interesting thing you left out about the 47th Regiment Armory, 355 Marcy Ave, in Williamsburg is that it was the epicenter of the early 90's rave scene in Brooklyn (Fantasia, Sonic Boom, April Foolz, to name a few). Thousands of screaming, skipping, cuddling bedazzled kids wearing ski goggles and pollution masks lined with Vicks vapo rub, candy flipping their faces off in front of a WARP stack system with Adam X and Frankie Bones playing vinyl that sounded like an airport runway in the middle of a battlefield reverberating inside a steel drum. Hasidim in the area couldn't believe their eyes. They peered out from behind their fenced in terraces at the frosty headed Liquid Sky labeled swarm all bouncing off the walls like lunatics. It's a wonder these things never got shut down. Good vibes.

Elementary, my dear Watson.

Posted by: Greenpointer at July 1, 2009 6:13 PM in response to Walkabout With Montrose: A Mighty Fortress, part 2

They're both shit. Rat-tat-tat-tat all night long.

Move to Fort Greene.

Posted by: Greenpointer at July 1, 2009 5:58 PM in response to Living in Boerum Hill

Just emailed. Thanks!

Posted by: Greenpointer at July 1, 2009 5:55 PM in response to Closing Bell: Help Keep It Fresh in Bed Stuy

RE: Cleaning up toxic soil:

http://www.scidev.net/News/index.cfm?fuseaction=readNews&itemid=1397&language=1

That silo building in the background of the first picture is a little design house, its generous tenants offered up their wide riverside expanse to an event late last summer. Shame to see that area be soaked up by more godaweful Toll Brothers uninspired shitboxes.

Posted by: Greenpointer at February 21, 2008 10:48 AM in response to A Look at What Toll Bros. Wants to Redevelop

THIS IS MY DAMN APARTMENT!!!!! I live on the ground floor... can someone tell me what I should freakin DO??? (serious replies please... answers like "Move, dumbass," and "Smell my d*ck" would just be pat at this point.

Posted by: Greenpointer at January 22, 2008 3:44 PM in response to Righting Wrongs in the Greenpoint Historic District

I've taken a bike ride through that whole complex and it's truly astonishing. There are these GINORMOUS structures that I believe were used for the construction and repair of battleships. The area by the hospital is totally gorgeous and it's a real shame that it's just a wasteland. Would be nice if the rest of us Broolynites could enjoy it.

Posted by: Greenpointer at November 27, 2007 12:05 PM in response to Video: Inside the Brooklyn Naval Hospital

AWESOME!!!

Posted by: Greenpointer at November 9, 2007 5:24 PM in response to Video: Anatomy of a Boiler

Aye-yae-eye...

If we're entering into show business here, let's leave the funny to the professionals...

I may be riding atop the (ahem) elephant in the room but this vid (albeit interesting) struck me as another example of the human tendancy to "perform" for the camera in even the most mundane of scenarios.

Cudos to the sliding wall but huge TVs and home theatres? Bed-Sty the burbs is not. Careful out there!

Posted by: Greenpointer at October 27, 2007 1:14 AM in response to Video: Inside the Gates Renovation Blog

"Actually, Wasder, I know two young women who have been rather violently mugged in the area in the last 2-3 years--one on Wyckoff btw Hoyt/Bond, I think. But I lived at Hoyt/Wyckoff and felt very safe, so who knows."

That's awful and I certainly am not trying to make light of anything like that. I do think that in practically any neighborhood you come up with there are going to be stories like that. Don't think Boerum Hill is particularly crime ridden that's all.

Posted by: wasder at July 1, 2009 11:28 PM in response to Living in Boerum Hill

As a long-time resident of Boerum Hill, I can't say which block is safer, but there are some differences.

That block of Wyckoff is architecturally diverse. It's very near Smith Street and the F/G. The northwestern edge of Gowanus Houses starts at Hoyt & Wyckoff.

That block of Bergen Street is landmarked and fairly uniform architecturally. But a bus runs along it. A noisy bus. Every 20 minutes or so. You're further from the F/G but fairly close to nearly every other train in NYC as well as to Atlantic Avenue life.

Six of one, half dozen the other.

Posted by: Brooklyn Chicken at July 2, 2009 9:51 AM in response to Living in Boerum Hill