Celebrating Vinyl and Aluminum in Greenpoint
The enthusiasts over at the Bridge and Tunnel Club recently posted a great photo essay on the aluminum and vinyl siding that is one of the distinctive aesthetic touches of Greenpoint. Viewed in abstraction, the materials have a certain charm. Aluminum and Vinyl Siding [B&T Club]
The enthusiasts over at the Bridge and Tunnel Club recently posted a great photo essay on the aluminum and vinyl siding that is one of the distinctive aesthetic touches of Greenpoint. Viewed in abstraction, the materials have a certain charm.
Aluminum and Vinyl Siding [B&T Club]
Greenpoint is heaven – it is REAL it’s safe it’s charming – in short heaven – it needs a couple of pretenious restaurants and and a ferry and we’re all set!
Even the kids on my stoop are polite – WHO wrote that obnoxious post??? where are you from what do you expect…??
Jerks ???
I can not say Greenpoint is number 1 .
But -Anonymous – Is your neighbourhood perfect . Anyway …
Is it full of jerks like you with mental problems ?
Czesc !
the question remains — why!? even if the homeowners of greenpoint are truly stupid, there has to be a rationale, however feeble, for slapping aluminum siding on what would otherwise be a lovely townhouse or tenament building. and yes, I’ve noticed the growing “stucco” movement. that I can understand, after all, who doesn’t want to make it their neighborhood feel like the mediterranean coast?
Its really silly to compare Greenpoint to Park Slope. Its apples and oranges. Greenpoint is a decent working class neighborhood, but Park Slope is one of the most premiere addresses not only in New York, but the nation. It can be depressing at times in Greenpoint, but that is also part of its charm.
Don’t forget that this is partly due to City policy. Like the Bowery of olde, the city has used Greenpoint as a dumping ground for its problems whether toxic factories or drug rehab clinics. The SRO on Manhattan Avenue is home to many quasi homeless drunks. If the drunks were not in Greenpoint though then they might be on your block.
To the poster who said there was no stink in Park Slope, I don’t know what you’re talking about. Park Slope wreaks of soiled diapers and thrown up baby food. The stench is overwhelming. And don’t you Slopers tell me to get out if I don’t like it. I’m already working on it!!
The slam of GP is unfounded and obviously written by someone who has hostility to deal with outside of real estate.
With regard to the alum siding, you are judging a book by its cover. Interiors have just as much original detailing as some brownstones elsewhere.
You can’t beat the location. 15 minutes to midtown, 25 to downtown. My work takes me to both. I live this.
Both PS 31 and PS 34 have excellent academic rankings. Both are in NYC’s Top 100 schools. PS 34 will add ballroom dance to its curriculum next year. The Catholic schools have very strong track records as well.
It is a very safe neighborhood. Crime is VERY LOW. Check out the stats at the 94th precinct.
GP is a very stable hood. So stable that the housing inventory is VERY TIGHT, especially in the historic district. Neighbors know one another and look afer one another. This is rare these days.
The restaruants are plentiful, clean and good.
Each neighborhood has it’s own flavor and personality. If you don’t like GP’s, please take the G train and leave. You will not be missed.
Czesc!
LOL– you don’t like the nabe- then GET OUT! Nobody is forcing you to look in anyone’s eye every day. Go to Staten Island. We don’t want you in our ‘hood.
Bye Bye!
I am by no means claiming that GPT is the only nabe in NYC with ‘career drinkers,’ merely calling out an obvious issue for the hood. Just take a walk down any block of Manhattan Ave. and peer into the eyes of any given cross-section of middle-aged men and their eyes and tell the story — complete wear and tear. It’s depressing. Not suggesting it’s not happening elsewhere, just pointing out that it is unpleasant to be exposed to each and every day. It’s a personal tolerance issue — mine is pretty low for a community where most of the men corrode their livers daily.