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]
“most artists (99 percent of them) are obnoxious and annoying anyway. so maybe this is a blessing in diguise. let them live with the homeless and former crackheads. i hope all their expensive ipods and macs get stolen. yeah im cranky today, so what!”
Disagree
11217 -sorry to take you to task – but WHOA NELLY! – I think you are way off on that last post at 1:26
I would LOVE to work from home – but guess what I am one of those record company peons who have to be in the office every day for 10-12 hours and yes if I have a child I will scale that back big time, we both have to work not so we can keep living some fabulous life – but so we can pay bills and gasp! have some luxuries like cable tv and high speed DSL!
most artists (99 percent of them) are obnoxious and annoying anyway. so maybe this is a blessing in diguise. let them live with the homeless and former crackheads. i hope all their expensive ipods and macs get stolen. yeah im cranky today, so what!
*rob*
nice to have you back 11217! Nothing is better to spark debate then when you state your personal preferences as gospel!
you dont live in england and i doubt that person breastfed you! it wasnt a nanny it was a baby sitter. grrrrrrr some issues really get to me! this being one of them!
*rob*
bxgrl, that person constructing sets on broadway you were worried about is union too.
everything on broadway is union
Geez, maybe I should have used “bartender” as an example instead of “nanny.”
Gemini, you can find daycare if you look around for about $800/month. (You can also find it for $2,000 a month or more, but I suggest looking.)
The exalted model of the artist is a false one though. The set designer at Alice Tully or whatever doesn’t “reflect society.” Broadway shows close if they don’t make money. Fine artists get trendy, get a lot of attention that has nothing to do with their actual product, and never have to wake up at 5AM to commute to a soul-deadening job (making this an attractive prospect for everyone). Fashion Week and the stylists that brought us the Design Within Reach catalog for interiors aren’t changing our world in any way that matters. I’m not saying any of this is bad — who wouldn’t want to design wallpaper? Just, again — NOT. Special.
rob- a baby sitter is someone you hire for a few hours for one to several days a week. A nanny essentially helps you raise your child. Another example of your opinion outrunning your facts.
Ok then can someone please (who is a parent) please please tell me who is taking care of your kid when you and your partner are at work?
yes I know about nannies and daycare centers -but please enlighten me?????????????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
my mother was a NYC teacher and my father a payroll cleark at Eagle Elctric in Queens in the 70’s making no money at all.
They both had to work – guess who took care of me…yes the nanny.