Thursday Blogwrap
Cumberland Avenue. Photo by Di-pict. Williamsburg Getting ‘Ugliest Scarano Building Ever’? [Curbed] Dumbo Condo Comparison: 1 Main and 57 Front [Dumbo NYC] A Beautiful Carroll Gardens Recollection [GL] Halal on Fulton [CH Blog] Bad Business [Bed-Stuy Blog]
Cumberland Avenue. Photo by Di-pict.
Williamsburg Getting ‘Ugliest Scarano Building Ever’? [Curbed]
Dumbo Condo Comparison: 1 Main and 57 Front [Dumbo NYC]
A Beautiful Carroll Gardens Recollection [GL]
Halal on Fulton [CH Blog]
Bad Business [Bed-Stuy Blog]
Someone said:
“most would concede that the majority of townhouse owners in this area are members of the professional classes.”
Hmm, don’t know where you live in Brooklyn but everyone in our Park Slope coop and now everyone on our landmarked brownstone block are ALL in creative fields or in media.
Owner of the house with blue doors, thanks for weigning in here. You have a beautiful house! I love your doors. It’s so refreshing. I’d thoroughly enjoy gazing at your doors across the street from mine.
I am thirteen years old and my friends and I like to travel in groups of three to seven. And we like to talk really loudly and scream out of nowhere as we try to control the hormones that are raging out of control in our bodies. Nice door!
I think they are beautiful! Ignore the haters…they are jealous they don’t have them.
I am nine years old and….
It is my house and I love it!
Blue is beautiful. This owner has a true sense of architecture and restoration. Isn’t it true that blue doors were fairly common in 1800’s brownstone Brooklyn?
Just the facts –
I am the owner of the house. We have lived in it since 1990, having moved to Ft. Greene in 1987.
I don’t know why the picture appeared on Brownstoner. I had nothing to do with it.
As for the comment re: “construction without permits” – we had both Landmarks and DOB approval and permits for all the work that was done.
As for the quality of the renovations – how could anyone possibly comment unless they have seen them from inside the house? The comments are pure speculation.
As for those who like the color of the door – thanks. For the rest of you, simply avoid walking on the block and you won’t be offended.
Wait, so if I buy a landmarked house, I can’t paint the door a dark green or dark blue? I don’t know anything about this issue, obviously, so pardon my total ignorance. But I’m looking at maybe buying a landmarked house and the ones on both sides of it have colored doors.
This conversation is freaking me out alittle. I LOVE the Painted Ladies in SF. I prefer the decadent, hedonistic lifestyle of old NYC. I consider myself somewhat of an artist AND a professional (why can’t you be a professional artist, huh?) And yet I’m a conformist Brooklyn brownstone owner. Guess I’m just a confused soul.
dang, typo in my spelling above at 9:56, sorry.