Crown Heights Salvage Haul Explained
The Times picked up on the salvage story we reported two weeks ago and fleshed out some important details. First, the story confirmed that the house was being gutted to make way for a drug treatment center in Crown Heights at the corner of Park Place and Brooklyn Avenue. Evidently, to bring the building up…
The Times picked up on the salvage story we reported two weeks ago and fleshed out some important details. First, the story confirmed that the house was being gutted to make way for a drug treatment center in Crown Heights at the corner of Park Place and Brooklyn Avenue. Evidently, to bring the building up to fire code, all the wood material has to be removed. Second, the article answered the burning question of how much Circa Antiques paid to get all the goodies. The answer? A trifling $2,500! Pretty hard to believe, considering there’s got to be easily $100,000 worth of salvage there. Granted, Circa had to expend a lot of labor to remove the stuff, but still a nice profit margin. We’re pretty sure that the treatment center did not bid the project out, which is too bad for them since you know Olde Good Things would have paid considerably more than $2,500. Oh well, in the end we’re just happy that the fixtures and materials didn’t end up in a dumpster like the doors we showed earlier this morning.
Class, Brass and 23 Doors [NY Times]
Huge Arch Salvage Haul [Brownstoner]
Architectural Salvage [Circa Antiques]
I’ve lived in Clinton Hill for over 6 years (5 of them next door to the methadone clinic on Fulton & Waverly). I have never been harassed or asked for money by any type of drug addict. What am I doing wrong?
what happened to the reno blog?
I’m with on that one Bstoner. There is movement to try to close down the methadone clinics in Clinton Hill and just over the Bed Stuy border. Whether it will happen I don’t know but most long time as well as new time residents are pushing for it. The dealers hang out nearby and deal to the addicts when the clinics are closed.
…tough break for the neighbors. drug addicts aren’t exactly great for property values. In our own little special corner of Clinton Hill, we’ve found that it’s the users who come into the area to buy who are more dangerous and bothersome than the dealers. The dealers don’t want to rock the boat–a crack head is completely unpredictable, desperate and therefore a lot more dangerous. The dealers also don’t try to hit you up for pocket change.
Seems to me if they let the drug addicts go in and strip the building they would have collectively made more than $2500. Hey buddy, want to buy a vintage cast iron bath tub?
“girls in need” is what the other thread said. addicts are in need too
I thought, per the earlier threads, that this would be a home for abused/homeless girls. Now it is a drug treatment center? Just what the block needs. Another reason not to buy in this part of Crown Heights.
Even accounting for the labor, it seems unethical to me to pay such a tiny fraction of the true worth.
Brownstoner, yes, worth much more. I met them. Really nice people. Also professional, and experienced antique dealers. I figure they have the patience to get top dollar.
But if they were offered 50K today, cash and carry, they might take it. I don’t know.