Norah Jones Cuts Back on Her Windows
There’s peace in Cobble Hill. The platinum-selling singer Norah Jones, who got the neighborhood in quite a tizzy at the end of the year when she received approval from the Landmarks Preservation Commission to pop in ten new windows along the western wall of her recently purchased townhouse, took a voluntary step at a compromise….
There’s peace in Cobble Hill. The platinum-selling singer Norah Jones, who got the neighborhood in quite a tizzy at the end of the year when she received approval from the Landmarks Preservation Commission to pop in ten new windows along the western wall of her recently purchased townhouse, took a voluntary step at a compromise. According to The Brooklyn Paper, which broke the news, Jones has amended her LPC application to include only seven windows instead of ten–three on the top floor and four on the bottom floor. The president of the Cobble Hill Association, which has weighed in with the concern that the side windows are not historically consistent, expressed mixed feelings about the news: I’m still concerned that this sets a precedent, said Roy Sloane, the president of the Cobble Hill Association. But I’m always in favor of a compromise, if that’s what happened here. One concern that is not raised by either The Brooklyn Paper or The Post, which also covered the story, is whether the seven-window layout might actually look less natural than the original ten-window layout. Any thoughts on that?
Compromise in Norah Jones’ Windowgate Plan [NY Post]
Windows 7 was Norah Jones’s Idea [NY Post]
Cobble Hill Neighbors Irked by Norah Jones’ Windows [Brownstoner]
I’m sorry, but IMHO this is much ado about nothing
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MM- why do you bother trying to reason with an angry, bitter guy like benson
i’ve held my tongue long enough bxgirl… your hatred of benson is RIDICULOUS. you are calling HIM angry and bitter, but you sometimes come across just as angry and bitter, if not MORESO!!!
*rob*
sometimes to get the idiot off your stoop, you compromise. this is smart of Norah. when the 7 windows go in and looks great and hood likes it, she can ask to put in the 3 into that flr w/o the windows
“This is just delicious!!!”
Unfortunately, due to absurdity, it is.
So what, benson? I don’t see “the community” in an uproar, I see a few people. Very few issues of any kind get 100% approval of everyone in an entity as diverse as a neighborhood. But again, in the case of changes to an historic building in an historic neighborhood, the official historic preservation authority has given its approval. Next.
MM- why do you bother trying to reason with an angry, bitter guy like benson whose entire reason for posting on brownstoner is to air his misery and take potshots at others? I bet his entire day consists of sitting in his basement, snickering to himself everytime he posts some “brilliant ” bit of psychoanalysis of the brownstoner mindset.
Ah, but Montrose, don’t you see the Frankenstein??
Did the “community” take the LPC’s ruling as the last word? Seems not, eh?
So which “value” should rule? Community “input” or The Official Voice of Preservation????
I think the “community” should call up Dan Goldstein and get his advice on how to obstruct a process. I hear he’s looking for a new gig.
This is just delicious!!!
Have a great weekend all!!
Benson, the fact that the Landmark Preservation Commission approved the 10 windows that Ms Jones asked for in the first place, shows that preservation is not an inflexible monolith. Most true preservation movements recognize and celebrate the fact that a neighborhood, or an individual building, can still have room for change or improvement, while staying true to architectural style or historic flavor.
DIBS;
Why soitenly!