Tuesday Links
Hoping Gowanus Canal Cleanup Turns Up Old Treasures [NY Times] Towers Built for Poor Hear the Call of the Condo [NY Times] N.Y. Senators Give Away Cash Linked to Kruger [WSJ] This the Youngest Brownstone Owner Ever? [Observer] Vid: Opinions on the PPW Bike Lane [PS Patch] 96 Joralemon Sells for $3 Million [Curbed] The…
Hoping Gowanus Canal Cleanup Turns Up Old Treasures [NY Times]
Towers Built for Poor Hear the Call of the Condo [NY Times]
N.Y. Senators Give Away Cash Linked to Kruger [WSJ]
This the Youngest Brownstone Owner Ever? [Observer]
Vid: Opinions on the PPW Bike Lane [PS Patch]
96 Joralemon Sells for $3 Million [Curbed]
The Landmarks Committee Meets [BS Patch]
Bike Lane Bickering [NAC]
Meant that it appears to be a brick house, not brownstone.
I read the Cassidy article. Looks fine / inoffensive to me, although I am pretty neutral on the PPW bike lane personally (the one in the picture on Broadway in the 50’s is really dumb though).
Etson, that is a teeny-weeny dollhouse version of a Brownstone. About perfect for a single person, although I do love them.
The Bike Lane Bickering article finally outlines the pro and anti-bike lane arguments in a dispassionate way, but it also links to a fantastic bit of douchebaggery:
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/2011/03/battle-of-the-bike-lanes-im-with-mrs-schumer.html
With friends like that, the anti-bike-lane folks need no enemies. The pro-bike-lane people should just hand out Xeroxed copies at all public meetings. Way to go, Mr. Cassidy!
Ah, but he looks like 12!
That doesn’t look like a brownstone.
At 26, I was in the second house I owned, although it was nowhere near that expensive.
I’m sure most of the original brownstone owners were younger.
Youngest brownstone owner at age 26? That’s truly silly. Plenty of people have owned houses in Brownstone Brooklyn at or younger than age 26 since these houses were built. In fact, I know of recent purchases made by people in their 20s. This is not a very exciting story. Those houses are very cute.
And all of this seems foolish to worry about considering the crisis in Japan.
“most of her neighbors in the 26 homes on the block have only one bathroom”
Really? In a 3 floor house (for over a mil)… that sucks, assuming they are talking about small townhouses like the SNL writer bought.