Lots of Love for the Schermerhorn House
The Schermerhorn is not your average affordable housing project, as The Times makes abundantly clear in its profile this weekend. (As we put it a couple of weeks ago, “This place is about as sexy as supportive housing gets.”) Stand-out amenities include a gym with floor-to-ceiling windows and a ground-floor performance space. (The Brooklyn Ballet…
The Schermerhorn is not your average affordable housing project, as The Times makes abundantly clear in its profile this weekend. (As we put it a couple of weeks ago, “This place is about as sexy as supportive housing gets.”) Stand-out amenities include a gym with floor-to-ceiling windows and a ground-floor performance space. (The Brooklyn Ballet will be the anchor tenant.) Designed by Polshek Partnership Architects, the 217-unit building will end up being split fairly evenly between arts-related professionals who don’t make a lot of dough and those who qualify for supportive housing, typically the formerly homeless and others in need of help. The interior photo in The Times story is pretty darn slick for this type of thing, seeming to confirm our suspicions that lack of creativity and resourcefulness is usually more to blame than small budgets when ugly new buildings are put up.
New Homes for a Varied Cast [NY Times]
Schermerhorn House 1/3-Rented [Brownstoner]
Development Watch: Schermerhorn House Nears Completion [Brownstoner]
Development Watch: Schermerhorn House Gets Its Skin [Brownstoner] GMAP
Development Watch: 160 Schermerhorn Tops Out [Brownstoner] P*Shark
Development Watch: Schermerhorn House Rising [Brownstoner] DOB
Some More 411 on the “Schermerhorn House” [Brownstoner]
DH – I think in theory that’s great, but do you really think those dudes from LI really want to live in some subsidized housing in downtown BK or worse…Bushwick?
They think people like us are “weird,freaks or…artistes”!
that’s not true dave
*rob*
DH…I bet most cops DON’T want to live in the communities they patrol.
The new improved Snark of the Day Award goes to…..Snarkslope. Give that man a tiara and a scepter.
11217 = The What?
I am sooooooo not 11217.
11217, that’s why you should come to the get-together in June. No one is like their brownstoner personna and everyone is fun.
“How about subsidized housing for NYC cops. Pretty sure they don’t make a lot and wouldn’t it be great (for all) to have cops live in the communities that they patrol? Seems to me that would have a greater impact on the standard of living of most people.”
I think thats a great idea. People constantly say that cops are detached from the communities they patrol – this would allow them to get to know the community they patrol – and allow rookies to move out of mom and dad’s basement in long island.
Bx:
You don’t need to take my word for it. I don’t mind people taking offense to me…it’s just the internet. This is just fun entertainment for a few hours around working.
I feel like we connected today. ;-))