Monday Blogwrap
Green House in Clinton Hill. Photo by lesterhead. Le Chateau de Frenche Says Be Our Spa Valentine [Bed Stuy Blog] Brooklyn Nibbles: Park Slope Seventh Ave. Update [GL] Nathan’s as a “Towering Wiener Wonderland”? [Gothamist] CSA Planned for Dumbo in June 2008 [Dumbo NYC] Hope is Alive: NYC’s ‘Bargain Hoods’? [Curbed] Unsettling Crime on Lexington…
Green House in Clinton Hill. Photo by lesterhead.
Le Chateau de Frenche Says Be Our Spa Valentine [Bed Stuy Blog]
Brooklyn Nibbles: Park Slope Seventh Ave. Update [GL]
Nathan’s as a “Towering Wiener Wonderland”? [Gothamist]
CSA Planned for Dumbo in June 2008 [Dumbo NYC]
Hope is Alive: NYC’s ‘Bargain Hoods’? [Curbed]
Unsettling Crime on Lexington [CH Blog]
8:59: Unless Lockwood wants to repay me for the money I spent having the paint taken off my house, having the bricks repointed and then properly sealed, I am not too interested. btw: The back of my house was not so lucky. I had to have it resurfaced becasue the bricks and mortar were too far gone.
You all may like the paint, but it is not good for the building. When they painted these homes they didn’t understand the damage it would do or expect the housing stock to still be standing over 110 years later.
Painting the brick might be bad from a materials standpoint, but at least for Federal era homes, it’s historically appropriate. Read Lockwood’s “Bricks and Brownstones.”
Thanks, 1:25
To have the brick cleaned, repointed and properly protected it should not be more than $10K – assuming a 3-story house.
Lex and Grand is fine. Near Pratt so you get the young students and the related services and nightlife. Quick walk to the heart of Clinton Hill.
geez, what’s that neighborhood around Lex & Grand like, anyway? I’ve always said, I’d rather be confronted by 1 lone man than a pack of teenagers or women any day. Way, way scarier
Looking at a painted brick house now. What’s it going to cost to redo the facade?
I enjoy walking around crown heights because of all the painted houses. A row of brown houses is lame. The few painted houses scattered throughout the landmarked districts really stand out and look great.
that was teh old stoop that was taken out and replaced by a window. The entrance under the stoop most likely remains.
Do any of you know anything about brownstones?
what about that shortened window?