First Street Building Frenzy
Gee whiz, this stretch of First Street just off Fourth Avenue (right next to the McD’s on the corner) is really booming. We’ve got no idea what any of these projects are, though it’s a safe bet that this one in the foreground still has a few stories to go! Can anyone enlighten us? GMAP
Gee whiz, this stretch of First Street just off Fourth Avenue (right next to the McD’s on the corner) is really booming. We’ve got no idea what any of these projects are, though it’s a safe bet that this one in the foreground still has a few stories to go! Can anyone enlighten us? GMAP
blah, blah “damn strollers Park slope babies breast feeders” blah blah “self-righteous Mommy brigade response” blah blah blah
I’m sorry, so why can’t you carpet stairs?!
And, FYI there are three bedroom apartments in Park Slope, in old and new buildings. Maybe they’re not as common in brownstones, but they do exist–think 8th Ave, PPW, some of the larger buildings elsewhere, or brownstone apartments configured as duplexes.
Ha ha ha ha – Anon 2:30 and the other Anon 2:46 – you guys are hellarious with your debate on who rules – kids or parents. Wake up – look around you – on the streets, in the parks – condo or townhouse – its Park Slope where the kids rule while their idiotic parents stand by and drool..that is when they aren’t mowing you down with their double and triple gigundo strollers!!! We should be installing xtra wide sidewalks to accomodate them nevermind worrying about the stairs!!!
Did any one watch the TV show House of Tiny Terrors?
The parents of two year old twins were still treating the kids like they were infants and causing developmental delays in the kids, because they were afraid to let the kids behave as two year olds and not as babies.
And the other hellion kids they showed, the behavior was due to lax parenting, not “bad” kids.
as real estate blogs become increasingly irrelevant, discussion forums on them will devolve into either a) constant bickering and trolling or b) nonsensical diatribes. i prefer ‘b’.
The solution is a genetic defect that grows a motorcycle helmet on a childs head. I saw a show on Tv about this. It seems that a small tribe in Africa back in the 1500’s had this gene. It was passed through the generations being dormant, but 5 years ago along with the rise of bogs devoted to children it somehow mutated and is now just beginning to show up in young children. Weird. but at least if kids fall now their heads will be protected.
Don’t forget they can have other options than stairs put in such as a pulley with a dumbwaiter with sensors so the youngsters could step on a platform and it would raise them up where they would dissembark onto the upstairs platform. That way the adults who are better coordinated can use the stairway while there kids who are without the ability to climb stairs fluently can use the safer means of ascention up to the second (or 3rd) floor. This is whats’ known as a “win” “win” situation in that it works for all involved. Alternitively they can have one of those electronfied railings such as elderly use in their wheel chairs. Result: the children may receive a ride up stairs, no problem without danger of falling to threir death (or paralysis). I don’t understand why their are so many arguments on this website when there are plenty of solutions available that can applease both sides. Its the same with the wars in the “Mid-East” as well, when it would be just as easy with a little bit of ingenueity to find ways both sides could feel satisfied. But instead they seem addicted to using extreme language to enflame the passians of the other that results in neither side being willing to truely listen to the points of the other and 1000s of dead corpse’s. It seems to be a pity thatr such also happens on Brownstoner, which could be a good sight if it wasn’t for all the “in” fighting.
As for stairs and kids – while I cant imagine anyone NOT buying a family size apartment b/c of stairs – I will admit that one of my greatest fears is my child falling down our stairs.
Urban staircases are (generally) much steeper and much harder (i.e. not carpeted) then their suburban counterparts and 1 slip could easily kill a small child (and frankly seriously hurt an adult).
This building (the one in the foreground) is slotted to be 12 stories. The developer seems to be Steven Sharabi of AD Shaye Realty http://www.adshayerealty.com .
The layout seems to be 21 apartments with all 1brs and 2 – 2brs and 2 – 2brs w/ basement rec room. Steven Kratchman is the architect.
The other building (in backround) is a Scarano Job (its on his website) the developer being Issac Fischman (who did the Washington Condominiums project at 35 Underhill Ave) I am sure it was delayed due to all of Scarano’s issues it will be 5 stories and it looks like it calls for some larger apartments.