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’m short on closet space as it is”
[must you tempt me so, snark…]
I thought you’d already moved out of the closet?! : )
Heather- and they are Brooklyn based.
okay what the hell is a wingman?
*rob*
“Well, biff- you have to admit, it was a little more interesting than talking about how to hoist your refrigerator out the kitchen window :-)”
Um…not really… 🙂
(sidenote: keep in mind that for me, a “hot jock” is any guy who doesn’t know what hello kitty is. i like ’em masculine).
hairy and skinny is fine too…
I met a bi-curious latin guy at the Floyd’s the night of the FOB (Friends of brownstoner)party.
dh- there is a freelancers union and it is a help but as a freelancer it all comes out of your pocket (normally less than civil servant jobs), so a lot of what they offer is still not really affordable for many of us. It’s a great organization and will get better as it grows.
Dirty Hipster, it’s called the “Freelancers Union,” oddly enough.
Well, biff- you have to admit, it was a little more interesting than talking about how to hoist your refrigerator out the kitchen window 🙂