What's Up with 200 Adelphi Street?
As far as we can tell, there’s a big renovation going on at the rear of this corner brownstone at 200 Adelphi Street. More noteworthy, perhaps, is the odd semi-circular appendage that’s been tacked onto the side of the house in the vacant lot next door. There’s nothing in the permits that we can see…
As far as we can tell, there’s a big renovation going on at the rear of this corner brownstone at 200 Adelphi Street. More noteworthy, perhaps, is the odd semi-circular appendage that’s been tacked onto the side of the house in the vacant lot next door. There’s nothing in the permits that we can see that mentions this side addition. Another oddity: PropertyShark lists this 5,600-square-foot property as having 20 units. How’s that possible?
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Thanks for all the positive and negative commentary on our home, when the renovations are complete maybe we’ll put it on the house tour again.
200 Adelphi
This house always has such beautiful landscaping. Threads on this site normally descend into the negative, but I just want to say thanks to the owners for giving me something beautiful to appreciate when I walk by.
The house was a whore? How did that work? Did it make money for renovations? If so maybe I’ll put mine to work.
The extension is fully permitted, supposedly it is going to be an internal stair case for the owners apartment with a deck of some sort on top. There a number of rental units in the building and the current owner bought it some 15 years ago when there were still vagrants and crack heads hanging out on the stoop. According to public records the house was at one point an SRO and some old neighborhoodies have stated that it was a whore for a while.
I’m with 3:19. I’m so tired of reading comments from the old guard in every neighborhood – good or “bad” – about the new people ruining the place. If you’ve been there so long what are you doing reading a real estate blog? People on here are people looking for a place. Moreover, nobody forced your former neighbor out of their house and took over. Maybe your old neighbors hated you so much they decided to sell and move.
Who care?
10:58 — get outta here with your “long term resident of the community”. You make Ft Greene sound like some blue blood Palm Springs or Boston Brahmin enclave. This is New York, where people with roots have just as much to offer as those who came off the boat yesterday. Please curb our condescending, snobby attitude.
I agree that it’s not cool to rip into someone’s home, be they newcomers or Mayflower descendants. But it’s Brownstoner we’re on, and by definition, most of the people on the site have a fetish for these grand old buildings — this being a prime example.
Beautiful buildings are a public legacy, as well as private property, and even though the law is usually on the side of the owner (at least in America), it doesn’t prevent the public from feeling a bond with parts of their neighborhood.
Me thinks considering that this is still obviously a work in progress, that people would wait to see what exactly it is or will be before judging it’s contextual merits.
Furthermore, with all of the shit-shack extensions that people were either too cheap to remove or made the mistake of installing on the back of a GREAT MANY brownstones all over Brooklyn(just take a look out of your garden-facing windows) this is certainly more welcoming.
12:12,
You must put a space after the period. Your writing is very disturbing. Notice the spaces after the punctuation? See, I did it again.
I like strange rounded totally atextual additions. It makes a neighborhood more interesting.