How tall is 125 Court St., "The Court House", across the street?

Posted by: tscola at October 10, 2007 11:14 AM in response to 10 Feet for Trader Joe's Building Preservation: A Fair Trade?

I never understood the appeal of an all-glass facade for a residential building.

Posted by: tscola at October 16, 2007 10:44 AM in response to 4th Avenue Condos: The Next Generation?

It has a 1950s SOM vibe to it. It looks like a third of an office building.

Posted by: tscola at November 13, 2007 1:02 PM in response to Development Watch: 234 Greene Avenue

I got a cheap, fixed-rated mortgage when rates were rock-bottom in 2003. If the Fed continues this inflationary policy, I'll have a negative interest rate on my home.

Posted by: tscola at January 11, 2008 10:02 AM in response to Impending Rate Cuts: Good News for Real Estate Market?

Who except building residents would actually go to the market? Do they expect people to carry their groceries up the steep hill on Joralemon, especially when there will be a Trader Joes nearby?

Posted by: tscola at January 11, 2008 10:14 AM in response to Latest BBP Brouhaha: A Supermarket in the Park

"Mayor Accuses Realty Firms of Seeking Undue Influence"

And in other news, Captain Renault is shocked — SHOCKED! — to discover that there is gambling at Rick's Café Américain.

Posted by: tscola at February 8, 2008 8:46 AM in response to Friday Links

Why are z and newsouthsloper so eager to argue for a false dichotomy? Just because a building is modern doesn't mean that it has to be ugly. Nobody in this thread is saying that.

This particular building, however, has got plenty of ugly. It's also got a distinct lack of subtlety, which explains the ugly more than building materials or construction methods do.

Posted by: tscola at February 11, 2008 2:27 PM in response to Development Watch: 196 South 2nd Street

The front entrance was recently covered with black plywood, because of the tenacious homeless people who have been using the vestibule as a sleeping area.

I also saw an outreach group talking to one of the said homeless persons yesterday on my way home from work.

Posted by: tscola at April 1, 2008 10:45 AM in response to What Will Become of the Remsen Wallflower?

Is this still going to be in the Brooklyn Heights House Tour this weekend?

Posted by: tscola at May 5, 2008 12:38 PM in response to The Bossert Finds a Buyer

"If the law makes it profitable for a landlord to destroy their building, that law should be changed."

If it weren't profitable to own the building, then Penson should not have purchased it in the first place. They overpaid for the building with the full intention of illegally evicting the tenants.

Posted by: tscola at May 27, 2008 9:53 AM in response to Emergency Demo at 100 Clark Clears Tenants