This Weekend: Houses in PLG, Gardens in FG, CH, PH
The 37th Annual Prospect Lefferts Gardens House and Garden Tour goes down on Sunday from 12 to 5 and, as usual, this is looking like a can’t-miss event. Among the many turn-of-the-century brownstone and limestone houses on the tour, we think the former rooming house that has undergone a DIY period restoration by its owners…
The 37th Annual Prospect Lefferts Gardens House and Garden Tour goes down on Sunday from 12 to 5 and, as usual, this is looking like a can’t-miss event. Among the many turn-of-the-century brownstone and limestone houses on the tour, we think the former rooming house that has undergone a DIY period restoration by its owners sounds particularly fascinating. At the other end of the spectrum, a 1906 home whose interior was destroyed by a fire in the 1970s provides an example of a more modern take on the townhouse. To buy tix in advance follow the link below or stop in at K-Dog & Dunebuggy or Easy Access Real Estate.
Sunday is also the day for the Brownstone Brooklyn Garden District Garden Walk through Fort Greene, Clinton Hill and Prospect Heights. There are 17 (!) gardens on the tour this year. Highlights include a pair of storied gardens that fall in the Atlantic Yards footprint and may not be around much longer as well as a triple-lot garden with cascades and ponds. Tickets are $15 in advance at Tillie’s and the Forest Floor and are $20 on Sunday at Tillie’s, the Forest Floor and the BAM Triangle Garden. The tour runs from 11-5 and shuttle buses will be running.
37th Annual House & Garden Tour [LeffertsManor.org]
Brownstone Brooklyn Garden District Garden Walk [phndc.org]
I thought the tour was somewhat disappointing. There were some nice homes, but no “jaw droppers” and the overall tone of the event seemed slightly dour. A couple we went with left early (about which I am still a little steamed!). My husband and I stuck it out, but the event seemed to lack the ‘spark’ that it has had at times in the past.
You’re wrong. PLG is exempt from crime.
Yeah, and nothing like that ever happens anywhere else in Brooklyn or NYC either 12:20pm. If your criteria for a NYC nabe is no crime whatsoever, you’re going ot have a hard time shopping for real estate. Plus what’s your point exactly? It’s a sad event, the murder you mention. You could at least say that. Show some sympathy for the family maybe? Oh well.
As for us we had a wonderful time on the tour today! Our compliments to everyone involved. The houses were great this year. Such an interesting array from very traditional Victorian to ultra modern. But we especially enjoyed laughing and socializing with people taking the tour, and the tour volunteers. As we headed home we felt really great about living here in PLG.
What’s your point Anon 12:20PM? No where is exempt from crime. Not Osh Kosh, not Biloxi, not Manhattan and not Brookln (Park Slope, Prospect Lefferts Garden, Beverley Square West/East, Brownsville, Ditmas Park West/East, Clinton Hill, Bensonhurst, Fort Greene, Bedford Stuyvesant, Cobble Hill, etc.) So again I ask, What’s your point?
I’ll try 10:57.
Hope to see you on the Victorian House Tour as well Bob.
It’s so true about the house tours providing ideas for one’s own renovations. An added benefit is you can ask the homeowner who their contractor is – great way to get recommendations. If you can’t make the house tour remember you can always simply ask a neighbor if you can take a peek in their house. In PLG and most Brooklyn brownstone neighborhoods, neighbors will happily let you take a look around. I wish we’d snooped in more neighbors’ houses before we did our bathrooms, for example. It shows you what the general standards are on your block, for renovations. You don’t need to go too above or beyond what others are doing, nor do you want to be doing a lot less than others are doing either.
I presume everyone reading this realizes that the statement about a release form is a fabrication. Unfortunately every time Mr. B deletes it, it pops up, over and over again.
Just about everything Anon. 3:06 AM wrote would apply to me if you substituted “PLG” for “Victorian Flatbush”. I actually “discovered” my neighborhood through the 1974 HT and have worked on every one since 1975.