Broken Angel Up For Sale
It’s a sad day in Mudville: Shahn and Arthur are having to give up on their dream of converting the Broken Angel into a bunch of eclectically designed condos. A few days ago, they put the 13,000-square-foot property up for sale with no asking price. Interested parties can contact Shahn at 917-627-6454. Given that the…
It’s a sad day in Mudville: Shahn and Arthur are having to give up on their dream of converting the Broken Angel into a bunch of eclectically designed condos. A few days ago, they put the 13,000-square-foot property up for sale with no asking price. Interested parties can contact Shahn at 917-627-6454. Given that the new NYT listings site currently returns zero responses to a Clinton Hill search, we’re unable to come up with the listing right now!
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Montrose – you say that you don’t understand why anyone would take glee in Shahn failure. Let me try to explain. Let’s say you’ve spent most of your professional career becoming an expert in a field. If memory serves I think you work in interior design, so let’s use that as an example. Let’s say a potential clinet interviews you for a project and given all of your experience and experties you tell him what you think could be accomplished with a space and how much it will cost. And then some one comes up to the potential client and tells him that you don’t know what your talking about and based on his completely irrelevent and miniscule experience he promises your client a fantastical design for a fraction of the cost. He saysa that you don’t know what you’re talking about and are only limiting your options because of greed. THe client takes the bait anfd hires this guy and he fails miserably. Are you telling me you wouldn’t have a pretty acute case of the “I Told you so”s? If so then you’re a better man than I.
The bottom line here is that it was all a clear and massive violation of the building codes.
I think its fairly obvious tiptoe. Besides I have more than just a passing interest in psychology; it being a double major. But that was many years ago and some things change.
Yes Montrose I am going to tell Shahn – I told you so – but no I do not take “glee” in his failing. But I DO take glee that Shahn’s arrogance and his obnoxious rants are being appropriately punished. Go back and look at Shahn’s posts on this and other topics – they essentially say that everyone (but him and a few others) are dumb and that “everyone else is just a greedy pig – and I am the benevolent developer who will prove how beautiful and affordable developments are easy”
This makes me sad as well, just the fact that shahn had stepped in to attempt to help rectify the situation, but really, who can take on more debt and expenses in this era?
dave – i have no doubt that schultz was referring to your comments that “there are issues of OCD and other APA pathologies at work in the construction of this ‘project,'” when he termed it “glib.” Just what makes you an armchcair expert in psychology?
That’s probably true slopefarm.
Dave,
If it weren’t for mental illness, there’s a lot of art (great and otherwise) that wouldn’t be around. Few of our most important artists, composers, etc. (contemporary and past) would escape the DSM-IV entirely untagged. Not that I make any great claims for Broken Angel.
I’m sorry this failed. Truly I am. But I’m not surprised at all. I’d like to point out that Shahn commented extensively on how cheaply he could renovate the dilapidated houses on Admirals Row – trying to call bullshit on the navy yard for saying they would be way too expensive to restore. As prove, Shahn pointed to how cheaply he was going to restore the Angel. To me this just shows that Shahn doesn’t really know enough about this kind of stuff and got in way over his head and completely over promised. It’s not that hard to convince people that you know what you’re talking about when you basically are telling them exaclty what they want to hear – which is what Shahn has done here. I hope some developer with more experience and realistic expectations can step in here and salvage something interesting and unique for this project…
Schultz…I’ve read all about their trials and tribulations, seen the place and all the pics of the place. Firsthand knowledge would imply that you’re actually partners with them, or their attorney, or someone like that.
Don’t really care if my thoughts on that abomination sit well with you or not but my assessment of what drove them to add on one after another of ridiculous structures is probably pretty much on the mark.