Side Window Woes in Cobble Hill
A proposal to renovate 227 Clinton Street hit Community Board 6’s Landmarks and Land Use Committee last week, and it was rough-going from the start. Coming not long after Norah Jones finished installing her controversial side windows and began work on her swimming pool, the timing could not have been worse. The designers, who presented…
A proposal to renovate 227 Clinton Street hit Community Board 6’s Landmarks and Land Use Committee last week, and it was rough-going from the start. Coming not long after Norah Jones finished installing her controversial side windows and began work on her swimming pool, the timing could not have been worse. The designers, who presented the design shown after the jump, were there to try to rally support for four additional windows on the side of the brownstone, a modestly sized swimming pool, and an all-glass, two-story “tea room” in the back yard, with trellis and vines up each side. The committee felt that the side windows were out of historical context and that there was “no historical credibility for glass boxes on the backs of homes in Cobble Hill.” There was no opinion expressed about the swimming pool, although it’s only the second one to come in front of this community board since Norah’s. The only nod of approval from the committee was changing the the existing windows to a wood frame. The session ended with the committee saying it would testify against the entirety of the design at their Landmarks hearing. Tough luck!
If you can get approval from Landmarks, then everyone else should just STFU.
It says “four additional windows” on the side which means there are already 2 there according to the drawing. The precedent is therefore set with the two existing ones.
“but the sketch is so vague, how could anyone know? Maybe they need a more detailed rendering from an architect.”
Wow – you’re optimistic mopar.
To be categorically against side windows is just asinine. These people are just jealous.
“no historical credibility for glass boxes on the backs of homes in Cobble Hill.” There was no opinion expressed about the swimming pool
So swimming pools have historical credibility and glass boxes do not.
I beg to differ, but glass conservatories are VERY Victorian so there certainly is historical credibility for them
These haters are inconsistent in their logic and that makes them wrong.
So Norah gets it and these people don’t? Their proposal could fit in with the neighborhood, but the sketch is so vague, how could anyone know? Maybe they need a more detailed rendering from an architect.
So, because you my be able to see the thing in the back if you happen to look at the right angle and probably push some branches out of the way… they’re not allowed to build their “tea room”? I think these folks are crackers.
I really hate Community Boards. Typically filled with a bunch of self serving, jealous douchebags who don’t have the community’s best interest in mind.
The LPC and community boards make me feel all stabby.
Honestly, that’s just mean spirited.