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]
when something is exclusive (in this case, ARTISTS0, it’s just open for debate / criticism. When public $$$ is involved, that just escalates the debate why others are excluded. There’s no right or wrong to it – just a matter of where one stands.
I wasn’t accusing you of that Gemini. I didn’t even think you had a kid yet. I was just commenting on what I see from some of these PS parent types. I just think that if someone wants to have a child, they should rearrange their life to make as much time as humanly possible for it. Not hire some chick to do it for you. I guess I’m old fashioned like that.
I find it funny that I get ripped to shreds for loving and living Park Slope, and then get equally ripped to shreds for saying that I support affordable housing developments (yup, even if it were on my block) and think the whole notion of nannies is bunk.
Go figure.
snark- so true! when you have nothing else going for you, you envy.
heather was inching upon the issue in a previous post… seriously tho, i think the adding “artists” to it is to make the building appear that it’s not projects and / or a gigantic luxury halfway house. it’s just barf worthy and i will stand by my opinion.
*rob*
> “i hope all their expensive ipods and macs get stolen.”
Finally another glimmer at the crux of rob’s “argument.”
Envy. Nothing but envy.
ringo- yes. But there are a lot of people working off and off off b’way who aren’t And even with being in the union, if the work isn’t there, then you aren’t making money. Many of the workers in theater do the feast to famine cycle. You can work for a year or so, then not for 2. And don’t forget, the “arts” is a huge nebulous term and covers a really wide range of people.
This nanny thing is cracking me up. I always thought a nanny was like Mary Poppins, someone who lives in your house. A person that doesn’t live with the family would be a baby sitter. Someone who nurses other’s children, a wet nurse.
I think there’s a ever stronger tendency for people to feel the need to one up each other and the use of the free wheeling use of “nanny” to cover any kind of child care makes it sound like the family has a servant.
Heather – THANK YOU!
I just wanted to know my options.
11217 – all I am saying to you is most of us working scrubs have to work – I wish I could stay home and raise my little baby – but alas someone’s gotta put food on the table and unfortunately it relies on both my husband and I. We are choosing to remain in PS for obvious reasons as you know – but to suggest I will treat my kid like a purse surely you haven’t seen my fancy purse?!?
more4less- this is one building trying to provide low income housing for people with special needs and those in the arts. It’s hardly a huge endeavor and its not like there aren’t many more housing opportunities for homeless or disabled people than for low income workers in the arts.