213 Cumberland Slinks Back to LPC

The before picture does not accurately depict how before was. Before there was a straight fence like other that dot the neighborhood. The white fence was the beginning of the the ugly fence.

They really destroyed the outside of this house. They also park two huge SUVS right in their little driveway. Also, they have a yello kitchen with brown moldings.

They ruined that place. Just goes to show that you can be rich and have terrible taste. I am glad someone blew the whistle.

“that yellow mansion is beautiful inside and out (my best friend used to rent there)”

Apparently someone hasn’t been inside that “mansion” recently. The front doors have been stolen, ripped out when the developer said he was going to tear the place down. at least 2 fireplaces were ripped out, all the bathrooms were ransacked, lead paint is everywhere. the houses foundation is so settled that you can’t stand up straight in the back part of the house. i’m serious it’s ridiculous how bad it is. the exterior, while painted yellow has a leaking drain pipe which has totally rotted one side of the house. The only redeeming quality is the amazingly well preserve stairway. It’s a 2.5 million dollar dumpe that was renovated on the cheap a few years back. That developer is losing like 15k a month easy on mortgage costs alone, although it is deductable. I was at the landmarks meeting. It was a disgrace. This developer buys a shitty house for too much money in a non landmarked block next to a white castle and a polluted empty lot full of formelgahide and other toxins dumped in the ground by the old funeral parlor and suddenly the LPC decides to vote ON THE SPOT to landmark this house because some fucking chick read this shitty ass poetry and started crying on the spot about the downfall of brooklyn Fucking the owner in the ass. We don’t even get a stop sign on this street or a cop walking the beat after 3 shootings in 2 years but we get a landmarked derelict 150 year old POS that will sit there forever rotting into a shithole. If it wasn’t painted yellow 5 years ago it would have been this disgusting white shithole. as a matter of fact it WAS. Welcome home, shithole!

B’stoner is wrong to begin with. the original fence was not the white bowling pins, it was a straight wrought iron fence that was destroyed when a car accident sent one of the vehichles flying thru the fence, destroying it. the white bowling pins are what are the bottom part of the new fence, just painted black and then they added the upper part.

12:43 you’re completely misinformed. In the bad old 70s and 80s, the city paid people to upgrade their homes. My friends got building for a dollar if they would do a minimum renovation. This was a way for the city to help blighted communities.

Furthermore, just because you own a building, it doesn’t mean you can do anything you want with it. It’s called THE F*CKING LAW. (to use some of one of your favorite words). That goes from everything from building code to parks department code to, in this lucky ducking’s case, the very minimal and cheap issue of a fence.

And please don’t get me started on the whole “trust fund” comment. Most of my landmarked block is owned by people who’ve lived here and worked their asses off for decades, and they make the most improvements to their homes and are the greatest contribution to our neighborhood.

Why don’t you try working a little, saving a little, going to a different community than this now-established one, say Yonkers, and contribute — maybe in 30 years time you’ll know what this is about.