Horror Show Friday
We were going to pull together three different places to feature in this edition of Horror Show Friday but this place seemed to be able to stand on its own. Fittingly, the broker manages to reach new depths of illiteracy as well. $529000 Amazing luxury 2 family [Craigslist]
We were going to pull together three different places to feature in this edition of Horror Show Friday but this place seemed to be able to stand on its own. Fittingly, the broker manages to reach new depths of illiteracy as well.
$529000 Amazing luxury 2 family [Craigslist]
Benson…the design of the building does not depend on free labor.
Additionally, Philly is building low income townhouses that are beautiful.
The way you arrange the bricks does not cost any more or less!!!!
Well, I can see that folks are going to resort to cheap shots to respond, so let’s dispose of a few of them rather quickly:
-regarding the Habitat for Humanity housing: hey, if I received free volunteer labor, I’d build someone a palace too. Private developers don’t have that luxury.
-Likewise, folks will point to nicely-designed “affordable housing” projects sponsored by the City. These homes are heavily-subsidized by the city: free land, low-interest loans, etc. Once again: private developers don’t have that luxury.
-it is a fiction that these homes are being built primarily in Bed-Stuy or other African-American areas. These type of homes are going up all over the place in Sunset Park, Bensonhurst and Gravesend, for instance. Has anybody been through Flushing, Queens lately?
Glad they opened the toilet when they took that bathroom picture sideways.
This house is in Bushwick, not BS.
I await BRG’s and THL’s decision on the kitchen. BRG/THL, please opine.
Dave: That building on Halsey and Marcus Garvey is nice and should be a model for other developments.
“Our only hope is that the developers of this shit go bankrupt.”
By the sounds of that, Benson will go bankrupt.
Yes Bed Stuy does get a lot of these. Sad thing is Monroe has a lot of these in all different sizes. IMO, wouldn’t be so bad if they were in scale with the rest of the neighborhood. We once saw a house that wasn’t new construction but the owner had bought the lot next door and was building. This builder built so much house that it spilled over onto the property, so there was no real backyard space. Don’t think that was legal, but it was definitely a deal breaker for us and we really liked the house.
But again, it’s like MM said (not exact words) no one regulating or watching how these projects get built.
“To continually mock these homes,however, and offer as a solution some kind of “taste legislation” IS elitist, and will never fly in NYC.”
Maybe it won’t fly. And for that we are all losers.
This kind of construction is unacceptable and SHOULD be legislated against. Go look at th Habitat For Humanity homes on the corner of Halsey an Throop (?). There’s no reason that any new construction can’t be this good and fit contextually in the neighborhood.
Our only hope is that the developers of this shit go bankrupt.
Schlocky, indeed!!
“It is not elitest to insist that necessary new construction in our communities meet some kind of requirement of taste and quality. We deserve better.”
Pardon me for questioning Montrose, the saint of the Brownstoner community, but….
-exactly what do you call a proposal to somehow legislate taste in “our communities”?????? Seems to me that it is precisely elitist. What would you propose – turning “your community” into a gated community, or a suburban homeowner association, complete with an architectural committee?
-who exactly appointed you to speak for your community when it comes to taste? Would you propose that someone who finds this house pleasant enough to purchase be over-ruled by some “taste committee”? Are you proposing that a would-be owner not be allowed to exercise their freedom?
If you don’t like these homes – fine, then don’t buy them. If you think that there is a way to produce moderate-income housing with a higher level of taste -let’s see your plan. If you would like to raise folks’ level of taste with architectural criticsm – by all means, preach the good news. No issue there.
To continually mock these homes,however, and offer as a solution some kind of “taste legislation” IS elitist, and will never fly in NYC.
Finally, Montrose: as long as we’re on the subject of the law and calling folks on the carpet- I am still wondering why you didn’t speak up last week when someone tried to maliciously smear a specific, identified person in this public forum. Is architectural taste such a noble cause that this is allowable, never mind “taste legislation”?
Poor Bed-Stuy. It seems like it gets a disproportionate number of these ill-conceived, new-construction nightmares. I assume it’s because the vast majority of it isn’t landmarked?