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 had a bf about 10 years ago who one night counted the number of beers I drank. It ended shortly thereafter.
I’d kill for some A-Team pillow cases.
No lie.
OK you guys!!!
this has now become the OT – back to OT you usual suspects!!!!
omg who counts dates. what are you 13?
*rob*
Uh oh, my Paul Frank “Julius” shower curtain might still your ardor, 11217, heh heh!
Though I think my “A-Team” pillow cases are pretty butch.
Roberto,
Both Benson and I clearly said that if this was 100% privately funded then it is none of our concern. If taxpayer dollars are used, then it is. The article does not give the breakdown of funding for the non-profits involved.
The debate moved on into one about subsidies for the arts in general, which do come from taxpayer dollars and which I oppose, because the government should not have a role in determining what is ‘good’ art. I am not ‘angry’, just stating my opinion. I did see the part about income levels and don’t see why that is relevant to whether one group should get a special subsidy.
whatever 11217 , youd be shocked just how many masculine guys there are at the Kitty Realm (a hello kitty fan club).
*rob*
Oh ok! At least it was less depressing than swine flu?
“I met a bi-curious latin guy at the Floyd’s the night of the FOB (Friends of brownstoner)party.”
Jealous. But I seem to gots me a bf now. This weekend was date numero 10!