Hunts Lane: Where Time Stands Still
We’d never taken the time to explore Hunts Lane in Brooklyn Heights before so, when we found ourselves in the area with a couple of extra minutes on our hands last week, we took the chance to check out the dead-end street. Lined exclusively with carriage houses, the lane feels wonderfully frozen in a time…
We’d never taken the time to explore Hunts Lane in Brooklyn Heights before so, when we found ourselves in the area with a couple of extra minutes on our hands last week, we took the chance to check out the dead-end street. Lined exclusively with carriage houses, the lane feels wonderfully frozen in a time before the cheapest house in the area cost $3 million. Of course, that may be about to change for the quiet block: On Tuesday, Landmarks approved an application to build a rooftop addition at the 8 Hunts Lane, a 45-wide carriage house on the south side of the street. Mon dieu! GMAP
I love genteel/shabby houses. And carriage houses. That top-left one is too cute. It must be weird living in a place with so little light on the bottom floor, though. Do most of these places have big windows in the back to make up for that, or do they put the bedrooms on the bottom and livingrooms on the top floor? Or do they use that bottom space as a garage and just live in tiny little attic apartments?
I live at 100 Remsen, and out of my window, I can see the wood frame they put up for the LPC. It’s completely invisible from the stree.
I saw them at the landmarks commission.
How did you see the drawings for the addition?
I saw the drawings for the rooftop addition. It is very modest, barely even visible from the ground.
Some of the carriage houses on Hunts Lane have been nicely restored but others look very dumpy. I think the owners like it that way. Genteel/shabby. Although I personally feel that an unmaintained house is a disgrace whether it is located in Brooklyn Heights or anywhere else.
I just meant they have parties on the street and are not friendly to others who come there. I know it is an isolated street but it is not a private street.
not sure when neighbors having parties became “very cliquey”?
Eight-months separated the respective reviews by Community Board 2 and the Landmarks Preservation Commission of the roof-top addition for 8 Hunts Lane. I am betting that meant LPC requested lots of refinements, hopefully for the better.
I’m intensely interested, as I live in the building on the corner of Hunts Lane and Henry Street. Thankfully we’re at the front, so no views will be affected. The people who live on Hunts Lane are very cliquey and have parties on the street. I sometimes take my son to play there, but don’t feel especially welcome.