Development Watch: 160 Schermerhorn Tops Out
It only took about three months for the Schermerhorn House at 160 Schermerhorn Street to top out at 11 stories. Half of the 190 units will be for low-income residents and artists while the other half will be for the formerly homeless. Strange bedfellows for the new owners of the fancy 14 Townhouses next door….
It only took about three months for the Schermerhorn House at 160 Schermerhorn Street to top out at 11 stories. Half of the 190 units will be for low-income residents and artists while the other half will be for the formerly homeless. Strange bedfellows for the new owners of the fancy 14 Townhouses next door.
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I just hope the artists that get those 185 sq. ft. studios are forced to prove that it will be used as their primary residence, as opposed to their artist studio/workplace.
READ THE FREAKING ARTICLE, 7:30.
Actors’ Equity and other groups helped to bring this project to fruition. This is a free country.
If YOU would like to buy a parcel of land and build homes for plumbers, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO DO SO!!!
Plumbers make more than 29K a year. That’s why.
7:24…you said it all perfectly. thank you.
Why not just offer the half of the 190 units to low-income residents, period, instead of differentiating between regular low-income folk and artists? That’s the issue. It implies that being an artist is somehow morally superior to being a busboy or nail salon worker or plumber, get it? I think that’s what has people hot and bothered.
Perfect! 7:11’s comment is exactly the kind of superiority complex I suspected existed among many SELF-described “artist communities”. Your smug elitist remark is so outrageous, and also so airheaded, dense, and simply retarded, that I hope one of those “old guard” Brooklyn plumbers beats your classist ass with a monkey wrench. Why would a plumber have any less right to one of those subsidized apartments than an artist? And for the record, I am 28, hispanic, and a musician, so I don’t fit your ridiculous description of an “artist hater”.
What a bunch of whining babies. It’s not FAIR…. something for nothing….. it’s so not fair…..I don’t live downtown….How come artists don’t work….whine, whine, whine. We haven’t come one iota past where society was a hundred years ago. A couple of points –
1) An efficiency studio of 185 sq feet is hardly a suite at the Plaza. That’s your kitchen, bathroom, storage and living space -in an unadorned box the size of a large bathroom.
2)Who said it was FREE? If you pay a third of an income of $29K, that’s about $9.7K in rent, leaving you a whopping $19.3K to live on for a year. In New York Expensive City. That’s about $400 a week for food, clothing, transportation, utilities, etc. Doable – yeah, but hardly living the high life.
3)Who said any of the artists don’t have jobs? However, if the cap is only $29K for everyone, that is going to severely limit the artist population, most of whom work quite hard to live in NY, and would have to be doing better than that in order to pursue almost any kind of art.
4)Looks as if a miniscule portion of the funding came from city coffers. Marty’s half million is peanuts compared to the city give aways to AY, and countless other lux condo developments who have taken advantage of tax abatement programs that were designed to incourage affordable housing. You want to get upset about where your money goes, and to whom – take that one on.
5)As regarding “fairness”. It’s not fair that there are so many people in our city who qualify for this. It’s not fair that where you were born, and who you were born to can limit your chances of success. It’s not fair that educational opportunities are not equal for all of our students, regardless of income. It’s not fair that some kids can never even imagine working on Wall Street, and don’t even know where it is. It’s not fair that their parents weren’t educated middle class people who introduced their kids to the concepts of managing money, the stock market, higher education, and the finer things of life. It’s not fair that some people are judged by their looks, color or last name, and are never afforded the same opportunities that those who whine about fairness have take for granted. There’s a lot of unfairness around here, not getting a “free” studio is nothing.
It’s one building, with 185 tiny units, in a less than bucolic part of downtown. Some kind and civic minded people worked their butts off cajoling, working the boardrooms and halls of power to come up with the money provide the less fortunate, and those trying to rejoin society, with some small, modest place to live, and programs to help them survive, and perhaps find some joy in creativity. For the majority on this thread, giving them that is too much. You’d think it came directly from your Scrooge like pockets. Shame on all of you.
Did anyone actually READ the article?
You have to make 29K or under a year.
Do you really think working as a waiter, in retail or as a busboy at 6 bucks an hour is a 29K a year job?
The answer is NO.
That’s why there are places like this.
I don’t understand the debate. Who here who makes 75K a year wants to live in a 185 sf studio?
the i hate artists comments are so obviously made by a bunch of old guard (also racist most likely) brooklynites who woulnd’t know motley crue from mozart.
so sad.
i know i know. plumbing is an artform too…
You know what? These “artists” should get day jobs. What arrogance to think that you HAVE AN INHERENT RIGHT to survive off your art alone, and get a subsidized existence of any kind for it. It is so absurd. Are “artists” too special to be or waiters, busboys, or god forbid, work in retail? GET A DAY JOB!