Reason #1,001 For Landmarks To Exist
Blogger Transfer is hatin’ this building and so are we. Now if someone could just tell us where it is. Answer: Wyckoff between Smith and Court. Thanks, Peter. Bad Volume [Transfer]
Blogger Transfer is hatin’ this building and so are we. Now if someone could just tell us where it is. Answer: Wyckoff between Smith and Court. Thanks, Peter.
Bad Volume [Transfer]
Some of these posts are pretty spectacular is their small-minded provincialism. Carla’s 5:30 reads like a defense of racial covenants.
The only reason I can see for a person to care so much about their neighbors’ houses is because they don’t care about anything more important.
don’t go there girlfriend!!
dont make me send my boy Dick over there with a shotgun!
Oh George, are you having one of your episodes?
i guess it would be nice to live in some “Merchant-Ivory”/ “Masterpiece Theatre”
fake sound stage kind of place, with chamber maids and footmen but this is Brooklyn 2006 and face it not everyone can afford a PBS funded make-over, with a Parian marble foyer, Louis IVX gilt Parisian boiserie Parlour.
Windows are expensive for everybody, but there are programs for people in landmarked buildings–not much and not always available, but look around, ask around.
“You never have to paint aluminum siding.”
But you have to look at it every day and that is worse.
If you live in a Landmarked neighborhood and can’t afford to replace your leaky energy sucking single pane windows with new and approved ones costing $600 or more a piece, does the community get together and buy the people new windows? Or do they let them freeze to death or eat cat food because they used up their money budgeted for Romain Noodles on heating oil. Here is what you do. Make the repairs to your property as you see fit or can afford. Let landmarks come after you when one of your snobby neighbors rats you out. Tell Landmarks to F themselves. See if anyone ever comes and forcible takes away your property. The trouble starts once you ask Landmarks into your home. You never have to paint aluminum siding.
How about this? If you don’t want to live on a block with Fedders, don’t buy on a street with vacant lots. I think the Fedders bashing is getting a bit old already, but I made sure to buy on a brownstone-only block, so I really don’t give a *$^$$ about Fedders. 11:45am, I agree with you except for one thing. I think Brooklyn is becoming less exciting everyday.
Carla,
I appreciate your comments about architectural uniformity/conformity…learned all about that in appraisal classes and I enjoy the experience. I’m just slightly tired of the attention on fedders. Like I said before, they’re an improvement over what used to be there.
Anonymous at March 10, 2006 05:23 PM,
I also laughed at your posting. I was no more offended than you would be if I told you to show yourself out the door. You disagree with my thoughts and so it becomes easier for you to tell me to leave the community? I enjoy design and aesthetics also, I’m just not a slave to it. In the age old battle to find a balance between form and function, the fedders building provide a function that far outweighs their form. They provide additional lighting, additional tax revenues, etc.
And the exterior facade can always be updated by future owners.
NYC is hot in the summer…should all property owners be restricted from placing an ac in their front rooms? Would you specify that in the landmark standards of etiquette. Or, do we need to enact new building codes where we force developers to install central ac in all new buildings?