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]
firemen or artists? firemen
policemen or artists? policemen
veterans or artists? veterans
nannies or artists? nannies
teachers or artists? teachers
not asking people to agree but artists don’t rank that high on some people’s preferences and that’s not to say artists are not important but just lower on the list. IF public $$$ is involved (ie my tax paymts) then heck yeah I would have an opinion and opinion is it CRAP when others with big needs are excluded from cheap housing. I would say the same if this building was only APPLICABLE to firemen, policemen, etc.
51 percent of parents dont have nannies but i can guarantee you that 51 person have baby sitters. see my post above about the artificial term nanny.
*rob*
rob- and I think you’re usually an imbecile, so I guess we’re even.
Thanks, 11217- they must be a rsult of my mad cognitive disorders, as per rob., who as we know has the social assessment skills of a turnip.
Most people I know “outside of NYC” either stay home and take care of their own child if that’s possible for one parent, and where it’s not possible, they either go to daycare (as little as possible) or the parents watch the child, or one of the parents looks for options which involve working from home, etc etc etc. They are creative and think about these options before they have a child.
I will NEVER understand why someone has a child to to then have a total stranger take care of it for 8-10 hours a day. I’m not saying it’s bad, and I guess in some cases it’s a necessity, but people outside of NYC seem to make more concessions when having a child, but here it’s life as usual. The baby is like a purse…something to have and take out when you please.
I’m speaking about the “nanny is a necessity” people, not NYC mothers in general.
Whoa! everyone – I said I make less than 90K – I am actually not making even close to 90K – I wasn’t interested in telling a blog what I really make – but it’s a lot less than 90K and was trying to prove my point that even someone like me who’s NOT making loads of money would consider getting a nanny.
another thing, “nannies” sound terrible cuz well they are called nannies. 10 years ago those people were not “nannies” they were called baby sitters which is esentially what they are. real nannies breast feed. the term was stolen by a subset of people who thought the term baby sitter was beneathe them.
*rob*
“but yes for me and for most parents in NYC area”
You know I love you Gemini, but if you think that 51% of New Yorkers have nannies, you need to leave Park Slope a little more often. 😉
90 K is a pretty nice salary. And getting 75% wile you’re off taking care of a newborn? I don’t have much sympathy- lots of us live on far far less, and never had any maternity leave benefits. It’s like crying with a loaf of bread in your mouth.
The arts are an important part of NYC- not the only important part, to be sure. But NYC would be a far grimmer, bleaker place without them. And without the money the arts generate, NYC would be much poorer.
That’s funny Rob…because I’m picturing you sitting there with your mouth open, drooling with one of those big cartoon bubbles over your head.
Except it’s empty.