House Tourers, (Re)Start Your Engines: Crown Heights Next
The late spring/early summer house tour schedule can get pretty intense. But by now you’ve had plenty of time to rest up for what’s coming down the pipe the next two weekends. On Saturday, October 6, the Crown Heights North Association is hosting its First Annual Crown Heights North House & Garden Tour. Celebrating the…
The late spring/early summer house tour schedule can get pretty intense. But by now you’ve had plenty of time to rest up for what’s coming down the pipe the next two weekends. On Saturday, October 6, the Crown Heights North Association is hosting its First Annual Crown Heights North House & Garden Tour. Celebrating the area’s recent designation as a Historic District, the tour will feature ten houses, two churches and one community garden. There’s a kick-off event (at which public officials are expected) from 10:30 to 12:00 at St. Gregory’s at 991 St. Johns Place; this is also where you pick up tix and start your tour. We’ve seen some of the descriptions of the houses on the tour and it sounds sweet. Here’s a taste: “the intact fretwork screens over the stained glass transom windows, the intricate detail in all of the door frames, fireplaces and columns, and the stairwell bench flanked by columns, framed with more intricate fretwork carving, all on perfect parquet floors. There’s also a house that was renovated using almost exclusively salvaged materials. Tickets are $25; the tour ends at 5 p.m. Also, we’ll have more on it next week, but, for planning purposes, the Prospect Heights House Tour takes place on Sunday, October 14.
House Tour Info & Tickets [CHN]
Will there be any info on getting your block to be part of a historic district? I live just outside the historic district in Stuyvesant Heights and would love any info anyone has on expanding it. I don’t remember seeing anyting of this sort at past Bed-Stuy house tours. Perhaps Crown Heights can help me.
Putnamdenizen,
Please don’t let 4:51/8:25 get to you. Those of us who have worked on HTs and shown our homes know how much work is involved. People like him would never put their hovels on tour (and, of course, no one would care to see them).
FWIW, I’m looking forward to all the Fall tours
Sigh. Everyone have a great time at whatever house tours they attend. 8:25, let me tell you about a really edgy and good value neighborhood – I don’t want you to miss a happening thing. It is called Brooklyn Heights (1970), Park Slope (1976), Fort Greene (1988), Clinton Hill (1996), Prospect Heights (2003), Crown Heights (?). Now do you understand?
Kudos to the brave souls on all of the Brooklyn house tours who bare all and open their homes for all to see. I volunteer on the Victorian Flatbush Tour every spring and I know that a lot of hard work goes into making it successful. I look forward to the fall tours and will put this one on my fall tour schedule as well.
The CH tour organizers are wonderfully supportive of other neighborhoods’ preservation efforts. I have seen them on almost all the Brooklyn tours I’ve participated in. I can’t wait to celebrate with them on Saturday. Also, tickets for the Bed-Stuy tour are poised to sell out again so I suggest you get to Brownstone Books to pick up soon.
you still didn’t answer you thought it was funny that prospect heights is perceived as a better neighborhood.
nor was i the one who called anyone a fool.
Viva Brooklyn!
FG IS NEAR PROJECTS. CH IS NEAR PROJECTS.CG AND BH ARE AS WELL.SEE WHERE I’M GOING WITH THIS? NO MATTER WHERE YOU ARE IN BROOKLYN IT’S NOT TOO FAR FROM THE PROJECTS. GET OVER YOURSELF.
Why is it funny? Because 8 years ago Prospect was perceived as being extremely dangerous itself. Funny because in fact 30 years ago Prospect Heights WAS Crown Heights. Funny because I can’t for the life of me understand why someone so obviously willfully ignorant of the possibilities in other neighborhood is calling me on MY comment. Funny because I had no idea I was supposed to consider the worth of a house tour in light of how interesting it would be to Manhattan person. Funny because house tours were originally created to generate interest in lesser known neighborhoods, not to huddle close to a multi-million dollar development (don’t get me wrong, I like Un Prospect Park). Funny because I wasn’t saying Prospect Heights isn’t a nice neighborhood. Funny because I can’t understand why someone would be so nasty.
Okay maybe none of it is funny at all. Just a bit sad.