Development Watch: Schermerhorn House Rising
It’s been a long time—more than a year—since there was much to report about the Schermerhorn House, the second phase of the Abby Hamlin/Time Equities project that began with the 14 Townhouses. But there she is, rising like a phoenix from the asphalt. According to DOB filings, the 11-story building will have 190 units (a…
It’s been a long time—more than a year—since there was much to report about the Schermerhorn House, the second phase of the Abby Hamlin/Time Equities project that began with the 14 Townhouses. But there she is, rising like a phoenix from the asphalt. According to DOB filings, the 11-story building will have 190 units (a Fort Green Courier article last year said the number was 217), half of which will be for the formerly homeless and the other half for low-income residents and artists (which begs the question of whether you could be a high-income artist and still live there). We believe that all the units will be studios. In all, you’re looking at about 100,000 square feet of new space, including the street level.
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If you want artists to have a sustainable place in a community, you have to find a sustainable kind of art. WPA murals = good. Artists working the gallery system or some kind of shock of the new = notsomuch. I’d rather have cab drivers. Art shouldn’t be a “get-out-paying-market-rent” card.
thanks slopehead and kuroko. i tried (12:58 and 1:22) but sometimes it’s pointless. some people are just itching for a fight.
Imagine New York without all the museums, theaters, galleries, bookstores…
Francis Greenberger is both a real estate developer and a serious patron of the arts. See this website http://www.artomi.org and know that he has supported many, many other great artists. Kudos to him for marrying the two interests. As for Cops (with the rate plumbers charge, they don’t need subsidized housing) there are programs available to them as well. This isn’t one of them. Your complaint is a red herring, go plow sand…or would you rather Mr. Greenberger kick out some homeless…
Yes, New York without artist would be…just like Dallas.
Thanks for that anecdote, slopehead. I used to take tai chi lessons in one of those Carnegie Hall studios with an amazing octagenarian who learned her tai chi in pre-revolutionary China. Always loved going into that building. It’s the end of an era.
This building has looked like this for quite some time now. Is construction active or has it stopped?
Compared to the building down the block between Livingston and Schermerhorn that has gone up in lightening speed, this one seems to be very slow.
and given the following news, i’m in full support of this project…
In Wednesday’s (8/1) New York Times, columnist Jim Dwyer writes, “For more than a century, artists and performers and musicians have nested, unnoticed but in plain sight, directly above Carnegie Hall in tower studios built by the industrialist Andrew Carnegie. Some artists actually lived there; others used the space to write scores or choreograph dances or practice for concerts. Now, the last 50 of these tenants are being evicted, a process that began two weeks ago. The trustees of Carnegie Hall say they need the space for educational programs, rehearsals and backstage areas.†Dwyer quotes screenwriter and filmmaker Andrew Bergman. “I don’t have to be in that building,†he said. “But I love that building. When I moved in 25 years ago, I was next door to a ballet studio; it was like a Degas painting.†Noting that the studios are owned by the city and leased to the Carnegie Hall Corporation, Dwyer writes, “its trustees have decided to gut the towers, at a cost estimated at $150 million to $200 million. The trustees notified the tenants of the plan at the first possible moment, to give them time to move, said Synneve Carlino, a spokeswoman for the corporation.â€
I would much rather live next door to a cop than some rent-subsidized buffoon who spends all day choreographing interpretive dance pieces about Dick Cheney’s insatiable thirst for blood, oil, and money.
then you’d probably be better off living somewhere other than nyc. they’ve got a lot of cops in baltimore and detroit. how bout giving them a shot?
pun intended.
this is quite an engineering challenge..raising the building over all of the subway infrastructure below. I hope the artists appreciate good engineering.
I would much rather live next door to a cop than some rent-subsidized buffoon who spends all day choreographing interpretive dance pieces about Dick Cheney’s insatiable thirst for blood, oil, and money.