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]
i think 11217’s last post was quite a piece of work myself. you cannot with a straight face now say youre some kind of made up character nic. you are definitely exactly as you come across here hahahah to claim otherwise is pure hogwash. (i just said hogwash)
*rob*
> “i meant philipino from the phillipines dave.”
That. Was. Awesome.
I’d say you’ve hoisted yourself by your own retard.
Whoops, sorry, I meant “petard.”
if you’re not working for 2 years at a time, I think you need to get thee to trader joe’s and get your application in. health insurance if you were 21 hours a week or more!
bxgrl – awww – thanks – I hope so ;/
am sure to treat my kid as well as I do my $10 purse special from H&M!!! – hahahaha
11217- we’ll have to take your word for that. I, however, found you particularly soothing and calming today 🙂
If you knew me in real life, I’d much less offensive. 😉
Posted by: 11217 at April 27, 2009 2:09 PM
OK, show of hands who believes this.
🙂 Just kidding.
And some artists, as pathetic as they may have seemed, and unable to support themselves in their earlier years, turn out to produce incredible works. Most recently, Warhol.
gemini- I was trying to do sme actual work but the thread was way too much fun. Hope you do have kids though- I think you’d be a great mom.
Dave:
Of COURSE I find it amusing. The funny thing to me about all of this is that some of you have such funny impressions of me. I think I’m the complete opposite. I’ve told you before…this is just my brownstoner posting persona.
If you knew me in real life, I’d much less offensive. 😉
Do you REALLY think I love Park Slope *that* much?? It’s just fun to play the character of the ultimate PS lover cause it seems to get on some people’s nerves so much. Ha.