Friday Links
Crown Heights. Photo by stan. New York’s Coveted Public Schools Face Pupil Jam [NY Times] Homeowner Rescue Bill Passed Despite Veto Threat [NY Times] Deal to Build at Railyards on West Side Collapses [NY Times] Questions of Rent Tactics by Private Equity [NY Times] Marty: Don’t Dump Homeless in C. Hts [Daily News] Ask Babs:…
Crown Heights. Photo by stan.
New York’s Coveted Public Schools Face Pupil Jam [NY Times]
Homeowner Rescue Bill Passed Despite Veto Threat [NY Times]
Deal to Build at Railyards on West Side Collapses [NY Times]
Questions of Rent Tactics by Private Equity [NY Times]
Marty: Don’t Dump Homeless in C. Hts [Daily News]
Ask Babs: Should I Rent or Buy? [Daily News]
ESDC: Site 5 Delay Expected [AY Report]
Homeownership Rates Slipping [Matrix]
’10 Plagues of the Subway’ [AMNY]
Weekend Subway Guide [NY Post]
This is a very eclectic house, an amalgamation of Craftsman and Romanesque shapes and materials. It was built for a Brower daughter, of the Brower Park (across the street) Brower’s. Mr. Brower was a wealthy man, and I suspect the architect was given the chance to go for it, stylistically. The interior is qite well laid out, with gorgeous woodwork, and the back yard, which is quite large, has a beautiful deck and garden.
The tile roof is new, but it replaces the original tile roof, which was disintigrating, and was patched with other materials, especially around the eyebrow window. These tiles are a bit more robust, but are in the spirit of the originals.
Tish, Marty and the people of Crown Heights/Bed Stuy are NEVER going to go along with the shelter plan. The “wind is blowing” in the direction of us standing up for fair representation in the allocation of social service sites. We gave already, thank you.
Montrose Morris
http://www.corcoran.com/property/listing.aspx?Region=NYC&ListingID=1112969
10:37 you don’t know what you’re talking about. Go to the library and take out an architecture book or two.
The aluminum replacement windows ARE unfortunate though.
9:20 – how on earth is dumping more homeless into crown heights a “very sound” plan?
I beg to differ. There’s no way this house would have had a roof like this. It would have been wood shingle. The eyebrow window looks ridiculous coming out of that mediterranean roof. Also, the original porch railings have also bit the dust, clearly. And those windows! Just look at them!
Why would anyone in their right mind buy a house like this in Crown Heights when they could have the real Victorian deal in Ditmas Park?
If I was gagging for a gorgeous stone house, I’d make a beeline for Crown Heights, but for this muddled mess? No thanks.
Dave, you are right, they did a great job on the roof, and the carport is original. The iron fence is new, previously there was a really hideous four foot cinderblock fence across the front of the property, so this is an improvement.
The house is listed with Corcoran, and they wanted a whopping 1.395M, or thereabouts. The interior renovation is high end and first rate, although kitchen and master bath are too modern for my taste, but all of the appliances and materials are equal to any posh Park Slope reno.
This is a wonderful house, but overpriced for the neighborhood.
Montrose Morris – having log in problems.
Re: Homeownership Rates Slipping
Oh c’mon. 0.1% “slip” in the Northeast is hardly. We’ll need a bigger change in YOY rates than that to draw such a conclusion. I expect we will but we’re hardly there yet.
That subway article is chilling… bedbugs on the wooden benches?! I may never sit down again.
Babs has always given advice in her own interest, not that of the one seeking advice.