Horror Show Friday
These two charmers hail from Bed Stuy and Canarsie, respectively, and can be yours for the low, low prices of $439,000 and $550,000. Any takers? BEAUTIFUL 2 FAMILY IN THE HEART OF BED STUY [Craigslist] Huge 2 Family Brand New [Craigslist]
These two charmers hail from Bed Stuy and Canarsie, respectively, and can be yours for the low, low prices of $439,000 and $550,000. Any takers?
BEAUTIFUL 2 FAMILY IN THE HEART OF BED STUY [Craigslist]
Huge 2 Family Brand New [Craigslist]
“Maybe Mr. B should only feature gorgeous very expensive homes”
Or, maybe he should stop making a point of singling out houses that are NOT brownstones and labeling them “horror shows.”
Just cut and paste the posts from last weeks Horror Show.
Same difference. This is getting old.
It’d smack of hubris to me more if not for the fact that there have been many postings in the past of non-brownstone homes that Mr. B has said he finds attractive.
I can’t afford a real brownstone anywhere in this city, but that doesn’t mean I want to live in one of the apartments featured here, either. There has to be some kind of area between the two in which new developments are nice looking AND affordable. Yet it seems like everyone is putting up either stuff that looks like the standard horror-show-friday pics, or crazy super-modern condos that completely do not fit the neighborhood they’re in.
Why is it so hard to just make new construction that looks pretty much like a brownstone? The vast majority of them aren’t technically complex. They’re just flat-front or maybe have a bay window.
benson, by referencing MM’s “4QOTD” you’re simply enabling her. If you want to get a QOTD you cannot let MM intimdate you with the brilliance or quantityof her writing – even now look how long yor posts are- you’re even emulating her writing style! stick up for yourself, benson!
That said, I think what you’re suggesting is an interesting idea. There are condos going up on my block and I’ve seen the developer’s other buildings. They’re quite nice actually- he’s a small developer too. I’d love to see him interviewed about how he manages to put up small, very nicely designed (at least from the outside) condos.
I don’t mind the building on the right- a little tlc and it would look pretty nice. It wouldn’t win any architectural awards but its not a nightmare by any stretch. the one on the left- pretty close to unforgivable. The idea of brownstone brooklyn is not just a slogan- it’s very real People love brownstone neighborhoods, and they’ve been used for years to sell Brooklyn as a great place to live. Buildings like this aren’t just eyesores, they really hurt the neighborhood. even if you think its a poor neighborhood, buildings like this are an insult, visually, architecturally, and to the community.
Neighborhoods like Crown Hgts, Bed-stuy and Clinton Hill have seen gains because they have so much beautiful housing stock. Those communities have worked long and hard to rebuild the neighborhoods- cheesy, throwaway buildings like this ruin one of the great advantages these neighborhoods have- beautiful buildings and street potential.
I don’t doubt that people will still buy these homes and be quite happy with them. The interior is new and bright and clean. But I happen to feel that we need to not just think in terms of the individual property, but the overall neighborhood as well. Landmarking is about that, really and I think often landmarking rules can be too prohibitive in some ways. Still- the developer for that building could have and should have done better.
BRG;
Did you take the time to read what I wrote in full, before trying to come out with a pithy remark???
I made the following statement in my challenge:
“How about it Mr. B? If you really want to eliminate this scourge of Brooklyn, let’s investigate the market, and see what can be done about it.”
What I would like to see happen is that economical, well-designed homes be built for folks on the lower end of the income spectrum.
Please take the time to read people’s posts before commenting on them.
No happy medium BRG? It’s all black and white?
It’s the attitude that I dislike. Why not speak positively about how to resolve the issue of good design at a good cost. What are the options? Why the mocking? benson and others are raising good points. Can there be positive discourse or must it always devolve into mocking and derision?
“If Mr. B. just continues this feature in its present form, then I think it is just plain snobbery, akin to “Look how the peasants live”.
Maybe Mr. B should only feature gorgeous very expensive homes…..and then we’d all be saying….
‘If Mr. B. just continues to feature expensive homes in its present form, then I think it is just plain snobbery, akin to “Look how the high falutin bourgeois live’
Oh look, ugly houses! Let us mock them, and let the cozy smugness warm us like a fine Armagnac.
“If Mr. B. just continues this feature in its present form, then I think it is just plain snobbery, akin to “Look how the peasants live”.”
“Hubris was the word that came to my mind. I’m sure one could walk all over Brooklyn and photograph homes that are “inferior” to classic Victorian brownstones and brick homes. What exactly does it prove?”
Agreed.
Park Sloper: You miss my point.