20 Grace Court Alley Sells for $2,995,000
The 2,550-square-foot brick house at 20 Grace Court Alley closed on Friday for $2,995,000, about 9 percent less than the original asking price but about 9 percent more than the average widget appraisal of $2,758,887. It doesn’t get much more charming than this. House of the Day: 20 Grace Court Alley [Brownstoner] GMAP
The 2,550-square-foot brick house at 20 Grace Court Alley closed on Friday for $2,995,000, about 9 percent less than the original asking price but about 9 percent more than the average widget appraisal of $2,758,887. It doesn’t get much more charming than this.
House of the Day: 20 Grace Court Alley [Brownstoner] GMAP
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I live right across from Byrne Park, and I hope that you are not one of the people who have the same attitude when it comes to their dog’s “deposit”.
LOL of course not. mother nature didnt make my dog’s poop fall on the floor. his dog food and his butt did it. so i have to pick it up. not picking up after your dog is just vile. but picking up leaves seems weird to me for some reason. but then again i guess it’s akin to moving your lawn so what do i know..
*rob*
Oh and the bins aren’t stolen in Seattle, because everyone has the same ones. They are included in your garbage tax.
Oh yeah, to use the Seattle example again… I guess they’re just a bunch of hippies with nothing to do, eh? Somehow, 99% of all garbage bins were gone from the sidewalk by evening… most gone before folks even left for work (if they had an early pick-up)
So, just pointing at another example of how New Yorkers are self-involved assholes doesn’t really strengthen your argument as to why bins aren’t better than piles of garbage.
I don’t generate much rubbish & usually put a small bag into a neighbor’s bin. I use recycling bins to cut down on bags but they get wrecked when sanit leaves them & their lids in the roadway & they get hit by cars. That’s what discourages a lot of people from using bins (that plus dog waste.)
I like the look of leaves on the pavement until they get squished & are indistinguishable from dog droppings so I sweep them up before that happens.
And I just realized that I said NYC should have been designed with alleys in a post about a house in Grace Court Alley.
I’m gunna shut up now.
You know what I meant. ;-/
11217;
The issue has nothing to do with alleyways, or lack thereof.
Do this little experiment (based upon my experience): scan through the 1939 tax photos of the buildings in NYC. I’ve got one of the tenement where my grandparents lived in Red Hook, as well as one of my grandfather’s shoe store (on Connover Street). You know what the most amazing thing is: there is no garbage in sight!!! In a tenement!!
11217 — “Bitching about something that ain’t gunna happen seems pointless to me.” Wow, I hope you’re running for public office soon! We need go-getters like you in government!
Tyburg,
What I think is that NYC should have been designed with alleys.
But since that didn’t happen, I think with people as busy as they are in NYC, hauling trash cans out to the curb would prove even more obtrusive and annoying. People would leave them out there for 3 days, little kids would trip over them, etc. Unless there was a mandate to bring them back in immediately (stupid) having a bag which is then taken away is the best thing we can hope for within the current design of our city.
Bitching about something that ain’t gunna happen seems pointless to me.
11217 — You don’t think bins would look a lot nicer in front of a THREE MILLION DOLLAR house? (i’m ignoring the conspiracy about the neighborhood using this as their trash dump)