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]
> It’s spelled “Filipino.”
– http://redwing.hutman.net/~mreed/warriorshtm/grammarian.htm
i meant philipino from the phillipines dave.
*rob*
I hear ya Gemini,
I sometimes think I’d like to have one too, but I’m not sure that I’ll ever be in a position to afford one here…
Sorry….didn’t mean to attack you personally AT ALL. The whole conversation got thrown a little out of whack with the whole Nanny thing. It wasn’t really relevant to the topic at hand, but it took on a life of its own.
Our office is about 95 degrees today. It’s making me crazy.
kids over the age of like 8 dont need nannies or babysitters anyway. i had a baby sitter til i was about 8 and then i was like um i think i can watch myself after school. never had a problem for the most part! how old are kids with babysitters (nannies) today? sometimes i feel like they are like 17 lol
*rob*
It’s spelled “Filipino.”
dave just go back to the OT and continue to discuss philipino houseboys or something equally as insignificant if you have nothing intellgient to add. (kidding kidding 😉
*rob*
11217- I am old fashioned too and would love to raise a child until their ready for school – but living in NYC and PS is expensive!!-haha plus,I don’t have grandma around the corner like the good old days so I have to look at options. Also if you are living in PS and are at home with your child, chances are you have money or your partner makes quite a lot of it to support all of you without issue.
(and I actually don’t have a kid – but we want to and are trying to rearrange our life now so we have more to give it without the current struggle we are living now)
Have to agree with you on that one Dave.
Perhaps I should move over the OT for some really great useful conversation…??
I think this whole thread was one of the more inane, useless discussions I’ve ever seen here and boy, have I seen some useless ones.