The Original 135 Willow Street
In case you didn’t make it through all the comments on yesterday’s Co-ops of the Day post about 135 Willow Street, NorthHeights posted a link to a Bernice Abbott photo of the houses that stood on the site before the 112-unit building was constructed in the 1950s. No blogs back then! GMAP
“222 Columbia Heights – the place next to the Pierrepont Playground by the Promenade – this place renovated not that long ago and now looks completely different”
According to the link you posted, Biff, the original in the picture was torn down in 1965: “Although Brooklyn Heights was designated a historic district in 1965, the Cornell mansion was torn down and replaced in 1982 with a small apartment house. To meet landmark regulations, the apartment house conformed to the shape of the original mansion.”
A few other pictures of note I like are:
135 Joralemon (that closed this past December for $4,189,000)
http://www.mcny.org/museum-collections/berenice-abbott/a120.htm
222 Columbia Heights – the place next to the Pierrepont Playground by the Promenade – this place renovated not that long ago and now looks completely different
http://www.mcny.org/museum-collections/berenice-abbott/a127.htm
Traveling tin shop – inspiration for those kitchens that have all the hanging pots and pans?
http://www.mcny.org/museum-collections/berenice-abbott/a092.htm
‘I’d like to know what is going on behind all those drawn lace curtains.’
Your misspelled word from yesterday 😉
im glad these slums were torn down
I’d like to know what is going on behind all those drawn lace curtains.
Nice,
but no bathroom or kitchen shots so I’m suspicious.
I’m glad this photo is in focus and not “artsy.” 🙂
Thank god for hi-density eh?
The 1950s were a bubble…remember the Levittowns? There may not have been a blog back then but I bet people were saying the same things. I can see a sign being tacked to the telephone pole every Friday with “Horror Show Friday” with pictures of places like these being replaced. There would be a guy that would come along named Polemicist and scrible things on the posts about “medium density” and that crap.