Where The Kids Are Alright
You know you wanna talk about this. You know you do. Because it’s, like, really important. You see, The Times has found a new condo building in Carroll Gardens where, OMG, five out of six couples have, gasp, children. Isn’t that just, like, unbelievable? “The sleep-deprived residents are settling into a rhythm that contrasts with…
You know you wanna talk about this. You know you do. Because it’s, like, really important. You see, The Times has found a new condo building in Carroll Gardens where, OMG, five out of six couples have, gasp, children. Isn’t that just, like, unbelievable? “The sleep-deprived residents are settling into a rhythm that contrasts with the hushed order found in some buildings. The lobby often has an arsenal of Diapers.com boxes stacked at the entrance. Residents sometimes confuse cries emanating from other apartments as those of their own babies, and the first meeting of the condominium board was scheduled around feeding and sleep times.” The breeder takeover of 348 Sackett Street, it seems, was all part of a nefarious plan by the developer. “The building’s developer and architect, Alex Barrett, who has two children, designed the apartments with his own family in mind. All of the apartments have three bedrooms, and four of them have two full bathrooms.” The scandal and intrigue of it all!
An Apartment Building Where Babies Reign [NY Times]
348 Sackett All Spoken For [Brownstoner]
Development Watch: Windows for Sackett [Brownstoner] GMAP
Development Watch: 346-348 Sackett Street [Brownstoner]
Development Watch: 348 Sackett Street [Brownstoner]
two kids have fallen out of windows in the last week just in NYC. One died, the other luckily survived after her fall was broken by branches.
“Growing up in Little Neck, Queens, in the 1960s, we had a word for this demographic: Normal.” (Brenda)
Heehee.
Pete you would be WRONG – it is the owners responsibility (which includes coops) and it isnt optional or related to “neurotic parents – its the law. As for Condos – it is technically the apt owners responsibility although there are cases where liability went to the collective ownership (in short – better get them put in if you are on the board)
Yeh – it would have been better to use the more expensive tilt-in type windows which are easier to clean, but the facade is OK – note the absence of louvers and grilles. I can’t tell from the photo, but the design might be better still if the windows are laid out according to the brick module so that brick cuts are minimized and the lintels and sills align with mortar joints. It’s the little things, the details. I’ll have to go see the building in person before saying if I like it, but no way is it “Fugly.” And no, I’m not Alex Barrett and have never met him.
i believe window guards are owners responsibility. And in rental required only if tenant requests and has occupant under certain age. I don’t think builder is required to put them in. And only over-bearing neurotic parents want them,
Those windows are nice to have, but I too am wondering why there are no window guards.
stargazer — I tend toward your thoughts regarding the windows and the brick, but IIRC others here disagreed when the building was discussed a few months ago.
Growing up in Little Neck, Queens, in the 1960s, we had a word for this demographic: Normal. Everybody had at least 4 kids, 2 families had 9, and babies, as the Pretenders sing, “just came with the scenery.” It wasn’t called the Baby Boom for nothing, and it was just great. There was always somebody to play with.
I really hate the windows, they are truly ugly. The look like wings on a building.
Where are the screens, how do you clean them from the outside, what about child guards.
I think they were a poor choice.
The brick is kind of bland as well.
In person, the building is fugly.