Victorian Flatbush in Vivid Color
While nosing around flickr recently (as is our wont), we came across this great series of Victorian Flatbush that someone with the handle pictureinfocus took last Spring. If you’ve never made it out there in person, we strongly suggest you click through and watch the slideshow. Mmmm, mmmm, good. Colonial Brooklyn 04-09-2006 [Flickr]
While nosing around flickr recently (as is our wont), we came across this great series of Victorian Flatbush that someone with the handle pictureinfocus took last Spring. If you’ve never made it out there in person, we strongly suggest you click through and watch the slideshow. Mmmm, mmmm, good.
Colonial Brooklyn 04-09-2006 [Flickr]
Yes – I am the 25 minute poster- I take the Command bus and it is 3 stops to my office, through the bus lane of the tunnel. I used to take the subway, which took about 45 minutes, but now I can pretty much guaranty I will be sitting behind my desk within 20 to 30 minutes of walking out my door. It is much faster for me.
The Command Busses are now part of NYC transit express bus systems and the price has gone up to $5 per ride. It’s only marginally faster to take the bus then the subway and the stop in the morning let’s me off on the wrong side of Manhattan, so have to walk cross town. And I don’t work just in the Wall Street office every day. I’m at different company offices for morning meetings, and the bus doesn’t stop near those other offices.
But some of my neighbor that are also coworkers ( and that only work the Wall Street office) do use the express bus and like it.
The Command Bus from Cortelyou road gets you to down town Manhattan pretty quickly…
25 minutes to Wall Street?
It takes me 15 minutes from Cortelyou to Atlantic on the “Q” and then another 15 minutes on the “2” to get to Wall Street. So with walking plus waiting time it’s more like a 40 to 45 minute trip. But still not a bad commute.
A house on Beverley Road had this faux brick siding successfully removed a few years ago. I think it was refinished with hardiplank, which looks great.
Yes, it would need to be tented to remove the shingle. The original appearance is salvagable, if an expensive process. No part of the house has been structurally altered, as far as I can tell. The original shingle is usually protected by the asphalt/asbestos shingles, to some extent. Repairs can be made, or entire house can be reshingled. If in a landmarked neighborhood, there should be some financial help in the form of a loan for this sort of thing.
Yes, it would need to be tented to remove the shingle.
This house is covered in asbestos shingles if I am not mistaken.
BTW, Brenda, Love your glass restoration!