Feddersland
It’s always fun to meet someone who shares a passion with you. We’ve never met the person who goes by Polychrome on Flickr but it’s fair to say she is similarly obsessed with the plague of Fedders houses gradually taking over vacant lots across some of the boroughs poorer neighborhoods. Polychrome assembled a photo set…
It’s always fun to meet someone who shares a passion with you. We’ve never met the person who goes by Polychrome on Flickr but it’s fair to say she is similarly obsessed with the plague of Fedders houses gradually taking over vacant lots across some of the boroughs poorer neighborhoods. Polychrome assembled a photo set last week of Fedders houses in the four blocks bounded by New York and Brooklyn Avenues and Maple and Midwood Streets in Crown Heights. It’s particularly depressing given what an incredible original housing stock the area has. View ’em and weep.
Feddersland Set [Flickr]
Anonymous 10:59: No, Never Enough! These are a plague. And the plague has nothing to do with low income housing. Check the prices of a new Fedders Building. The plague has to do with greedy, ignorant “developers” lining their pockets at the communities expense.
Anonymous 2:48: Ihatefedders.com = ilovebrownstones.com They are intrinsically linked.
uglification
Now that we’ve gotten rid of habeas corpus, can’t we arrest these “developers” as enemy combatants and send them away where the can do no more damage to the landscape? 🙂
that’s why middle class people buy the brownstones from the poor people and renovate them – everyone thinks they came out ahead.
funny how the world changes 5:22
alot of people i know hate brownstones cause thats what they grew up with and it used to mean you were in a poor area. lol
my mom loves those fredders cause it used to mean youre not in a ghetto anymore.
Just curious, what is the typical asking price for these types of houses.
I walk to work from Prospect Lefferts and walk through all these blocks frequently. Fedders houses may be ugly but the vacant lots that used to exist were atrocious, dangerous, a waste of space and down right depressing.
The real crime is the asking price for many of these homes in an area with low-to-moderate income people and a minimum 10-minute walk to the subway.
May I suggest changing the name of this site to http://www.ihatefedders.com? It’d be much more descriptive than the current name.