Brooklyn Inside & Out

Has the commission never heard of restoration???? Alterations such as those this home has suffered are still popular among the fashionable set, and their shallow, inexperienced architects who want to express their inner whatever sacrificing miles of old growth walnut, mahogany, oak, pine, and burled woods of all sorts, woods that cannot be found today if you are buying legally. We are left with interiors that look like community college dorm rooms. That destruction includes ornamental plasterwork and other details. The idea that we tolerate that everyday vandalism, and condemn this home for exactly the same alterations show the commission should be renamed the The Developer/Demolition Commission! Look at the lame excuses that have been given for shallow and destructive decisions over the last couple of years, like the, in my opinion, messy Dangler mansion debacle and the destruction of the carriage repository and showroom, both of which were pure vandalism to please developers. The decisions were so questionable, it left many wondering if money had changed hands. Perhaps the commission knows of another carriage showroom by a nationally important Gilded age architect of the first quality?? As someone who has been involved in historic preservation of more than 60 years, I am disgusted.

This is sickening that this beautiful house and property was not considered worthy by the Landmarks Committee. This beautiful property will be replaced by some boring piece of architecture. New York City is losing so much of its significant architecture to more glass and steel high rises.

It's horrible that this beautiful mansion is going to be demolished. There's already so many new apartment buildings that has been erected in the name of affordable housing. Very few can afford to live in them. Many are empty and most are so shoddy that the tenants are complaining and looking to move out. Why can't they just leave this mansion standing? Ugh!

Check the floor plans in the gallery for 7th Ave, they go to Etsy 🙃