sender9999's Profile
- 2001
- Brooklyn
- Windsor Terrace
- Rental
- Male
Author's Posts
July 2, 2009
Window Garden Predator?
My herb garden is on my fire escape in window boxes [3 of them] and something is digging up the plants and tossing them aside. My friend says mice or squirrles or [ick] rats. Any hints on keeping them away?
June 24, 2009
rent stablized lease renewal
so now that the increases have been announced, what determines if i sign a 1 or 2 year lease? 1 year is 3% and 2 is 6%
i pay below market and plan on staying indefinitely so i guess 2 is the best option?
April 29, 2009
herbs in brooklyn
Looking for large basil,oregano etc plants at reasonable prices, is the farmer's market my best bet or does somewhere have a good selection at competetive prices?
February 24, 2009
Brownstone management
So, what do my celebrity neighbours and others who aren't around to maintain [sweep, shovel etc] their brownstones do? i presume they hire management companies... if one were to leave the country a lot this year, should they consider it?
September 2, 2008
kitchen backsplash
hi,
i'm looking to do a cheap backsplash for my kitchen. I want to do it myself, some thoughts I had. Painting with a number of layers of glossy paint? Trying to do some tile myself [the little teeny kind that comes in sheet] or buying a couple really big sheets of formica and gluing it to the wall. You can also get really thin sheets of aluminum with adhesive on the back. i thought that would look cool... any thoughts?
July 22, 2008
Prospect park west stabbing
Anybody know what happened on prospect park west last night? Neighbours said a teenager got stabbed, but i havent' been able to find out. After the murder this spring, makes me nervous.
Author's Comments
so it's a legal doctors office on the garden, and 2 family upstairs?
if it's legal that's an awesome layout...
"click on view full screen on cororan for the pictures which aren't bad, though they need more, i want to see the kitchen and baths and yard"
Posted by: sender9999 at November 2, 2009 3:21 PM in response to House of the Day: 49 8th Avenue
the sign out front says Awaye realty so i'm sure they really have the listing...
[unless they snuck in and stuck the sign up and no one moved it for 3 months, ha ha]
the apartment abutts a 10+ story coop, i don't like it when townhouses are like that, dark yard and it messes up the scale of the house...
Posted by: sender9999 at October 20, 2009 1:32 PM in response to House of the Day: 65 Prospect Park West, Reduced
suprised you didn't mention what a hard time this building had selling... curbed used to gossip about it weekly...
http://curbed.com/tags/55-berry
many people bought apartments there that are worth less now... not sure how much this person paid though, too lazy to look it up...
Posted by: sender9999 at October 20, 2009 1:16 PM in response to Condo of the Day: 55 Berry Street, #5D
... and no one has mentioned the awful awful floor plans? all wierd angles, ugly hvac units... i really was interested in the project, but didn't want to attempt to put furniture in there...
as for the finishes and stuff, never saw the finished project, though i'm sure it's average... i don't think people that bought in that building were very informed about the market...
there was so much better available for the same price or cheaper...
Posted by: sender9999 at August 14, 2009 9:50 AM in response to Clarett, Goldman Lose Control of Forté
and senor brownstoner, you know i love you, but i blog and take the one second to check my links on every post... you seem to have broken links once or twice a week... [though maybe it's your side-kicks fault]
check b4 you post!
Posted by: sender9999 at August 11, 2009 2:10 PM in response to Co-op of the Day: 214 Carlton Avenue, #5
i don't have any cumin, but i have a big tub of taco-mix so i will try that...
will keep you posted...
illegal, shumegal...
Posted by: sender9999 at July 4, 2009 1:03 AM in response to Window Garden Predator?
that building blocked my view of the statue of liberty, and is incredibly ugly, in a faux russian hasidic architect [not all of them just the un-talented ones] marble and vinyl windows sort of way...
one building condemmed and the one next door full of cracks and looking un-stable? they deserved to get sued big time...
[though i like that they have zip car in the basement :)
Posted by: sender9999 at June 25, 2009 10:42 AM in response to 406 15th Street: The Lawsuit
thanks, my landlord will definately be raising mine as much as he can... i think i'll do one year and take the risk... even if it goes up 4% the following year, it'd still save me $1000
my lease isn't due to be signed until april 2010, so i can feel it out till then...
Posted by: sender9999 at June 24, 2009 11:29 AM in response to rent stablized lease renewal
...and it comes with a magic tree that makes the sky brigher in the middle!
Posted by: sender9999 at June 11, 2009 2:38 PM in response to House of the Day: 1600 Dorchester Road
the "flag ship" store on flatbush is a hoot, they were once [9 years ago] passing off wattery ketchup as salsa sauce for a day cause they ran out... i never went back, but always tell non-new yorkers about the mexican/chinese/sushi joints in brooklyn... [including the place on newkirk ave with all 3 on the sign]
Posted by: sender9999 at June 3, 2009 2:35 PM in response to Streetlevel: Yummy Taco Opens in South Slope
sender9999 wrote a review about Moto on April 8, 2009 3:07 PM
This is a super fun place, with a wonderful vibe [ the designers also did heath's ledgers sorta restaurant] and a great 1st date place...
However the food has been really dreadful more than once when i went there, mussels full of sand, undercooked chickent etc...
other people have not had my experience, but aside from the donuts the food has been blah to me...
i still go sometimes though, it is fun, might take my parents...
... and i hate dark wood floors, unless you have dark wood furniture from west elm they look crappy.
Posted by: sender9999 at March 24, 2009 1:49 PM in response to House of the Day: 154 St. James Place
it sure is hideously decorated, but i love the kitchen in the middle layout
Posted by: sender9999 at March 10, 2009 10:25 AM in response to Price Cut at 615 3rd Street
it's nice but boring, it looks like a pottery barn catalog and that's not a compliment
Posted by: sender9999 at March 9, 2009 2:00 PM in response to House of the Day: 18 Willow Place
express way, plus good back fence means lots of light and not too bad noise,
but i don't like that side of the expressway, i'd rather buy a smaller windsor terrace limestone or woodframe for 1.5 that only needs a little reno...
Posted by: sender9999 at March 4, 2009 2:26 PM in response to House of the Day: 216 17th Street
maybe i missed this, but are we sure these people did the renovation?
if they paid 2.6 for an unrenovated home, that'd be insane,
but it was already done...?
ps i hate the layout, love all the baths
Posted by: sender9999 at February 19, 2009 2:40 PM in response to House of the Day: 897 Union Street
i am obsessed with this house at the moment...
http://www.stribling.com/propinfo.asp?webid=1106801&type=TOWNHOUSE
plus it has a fireplace. way way way better and cheaper i think.
Posted by: sender9999 at February 17, 2009 1:27 PM in response to House of the Day: 615 3rd Street
it's one of the best layouts i've seen in ages... i'd finish that basement more and put my maid, nanny and manservent down there
Posted by: sender9999 at February 11, 2009 1:33 PM in response to House of the Day: 599 5th Street
i know right? no views? for that much?
sheesh
Posted by: sender9999 at February 10, 2009 1:14 PM in response to Co-op of the Day: One Main Street #6G/H
the streetview for bridge:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=7601+Narrows+Avenue,+Brooklyn&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=33.160552,55.810547&ie=UTF8&t=h&ll=40.632991,-74.03311&spn=0.011692,0.015879&z=16&iwloc=addr&layer=tc&cbll=40.632652,-74.036081&panoid=hfKBkw2xbFJmMTfXmOTOGw&cbp=12,132.92678149371608,,0,5
Posted by: sender9999 at January 30, 2009 2:22 PM in response to Open House Picks
if i want to read about crime and feel sad for a victim, there are plenty of sites for that.
if i want to read about a fire and feel sad for an old house, than i want to read it here.
if you don't like it, don't read it.
Posted by: sender9999 at January 5, 2009 9:28 AM in response to Fire Guts Newly-Renovated Townhouse at 67 Cranberry
... so before i moved to park slope, i lived in bushwick where the planes come in reaallll low over my apartment.
with the windows open it was ridiculous...
unless you're laying in the park and listneing, a plane should never bother you. close your bloody windows
Posted by: sender9999 at December 15, 2008 6:55 PM in response to Closing Bell: Keeping Quiet in Park Slope
... for a while there was someone living/squatting/guarding the building... a sheet on a window and loud music some times...
now?
Posted by: sender9999 at December 15, 2008 6:00 PM in response to Checking in on 357 15th Street
my first apartment was off of newkirk avenue in ditmas park in a huge run down building. my bedroom was the maids q2uarters with my own bath... looking across a courtyard from my room, i could see my roomates bedroom. the place had living room, breakfast room, dining room and huge kitchen,
i paid 450, my roomate paid 500... and this was 2003..
Posted by: sender9999 at November 18, 2008 2:56 PM in response to Co-op of the Day: 1 Pierrepont Street
nope. it's a mansion, you're going to say a kensington attached house in london isn't a mansion?
i like it, thought, huge and i like the layout, except i'd turn the dining room into a kick ass kitchen...
but that wood might be a dealbreaker, maybe not so bad in person...
plus i'd play doctor fetish games in the garden floor...
Posted by: sender9999 at October 27, 2008 2:46 PM in response to House of the Day: 567 1st Street
that's actually been on the elliman website for quite some time, fyi...
Posted by: sender9999 at October 13, 2008 1:36 PM in response to Condo of the Day: J Condo Penthouse
cw, As a fat rich white preson I take great offense at what you're saying, i suffer too... my driver's house is being foreclosed and all he does is bitch to me about it. so i fired him.
Posted by: sender9999 at October 9, 2008 7:01 PM in response to Dow Closes Down 679 Points
good luck to her, i love people that are doing it on their own.
Posted by: sender9999 at October 3, 2008 11:04 AM in response to Details on the Brooklyn Take-Out Taxi
she has the neighbourhood quite wrong for the most part. but i will not be defending farrell's though, from the experience of my friends and neighbours, [a small minority] of the people that hang out their are racist homophobes who like to crude comments to women who dare to walk on their side of the street. not that a hipster bar is the answer but i won't shed a tear for farrell's...
Posted by: sender9999 at September 26, 2008 11:32 AM in response to [Virtually] Duking It Out Over Windsor Terrace
sender9999 wrote a review about Junior's on September 19, 2008 12:12 PM
cheesecake sucks, but it's a fun place to take out of towners, especially sunday after church lets out and all the fabulous old black ladies in their crazy hats are eating...
i like the idea of stainless, but the counter top is completely stainless [from ikea with integrated sink] so i'm not sure...
http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/S39835250
Posted by: sender9999 at September 2, 2008 2:28 PM in response to kitchen backsplash
No it was *me*, i'm the single girl! I was hearing a leather halter top, and 4 inch heels [i'm actually a boy] please write me!!!
Posted by: sender9999 at August 18, 2008 10:00 AM in response to Park Slope Baby Carriage Pushers Are on the Loose!
like london and paris almost already are...
Posted by: sender9999 at August 8, 2008 10:13 AM in response to News Flash: Everyone Wants to Live in the City
how exciting...
but remember folks never ever post your email online... instead write peacenik108 @ aol.com
Posted by: sender9999 at August 6, 2008 12:13 PM in response to Bay Ridge Food Coop
the drycleaning lady got killed over on 11th avenue a few months ago... and last night the corner was cordoned off for at least 4 hours... lots of detectives and stuff... at the traffic circle at 15th...
Posted by: sender9999 at July 22, 2008 3:58 PM in response to Prospect park west stabbing
landmarked?
Posted by: sender9999 at November 10, 2009 11:34 AM in response to Waverly Shell Coming Up for Auction