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]
Oh dh, given that 80% of my friends are single, hot straight females, I’m sure I could hook ya up. The value of the gay wingman for straight guys is so vastly underrated and takes a back seat (shut it Dave) to the typical “fag hag” type arrangement.
Fag hags are useless. I want the straight guys so I can meet the bi-curious hot jock-type guys. 😉
“I think we talking about who deserves it more as opposed to who needs it more.”
Bxgrl – Very true. Is there not a freelancers union of some sort that people in the arts could join in order to obtain benefits?
Not sure if this is true, or even economically feasible.
I think I really should have said “bartender.” We could have had a whole different conversation. Who doesn’t want their local bartender to have a quick commute to work?
Also, all cops live on Staten Island.
And I did not know 11217’s gender or status before.
Nannies are people. It’s not the most flattering or respected job title ever, but it is what it is, and most people hire nannies because that’s their best option, the others being a family member, daycare or that old recession favorite, the nanny share. In today’s hyper-parenting circles, no one would ever admit to not enjoying every precious second with their precious snowflake… but most people do have to work, except for those of us whose net salaries would be less than the cost of any of the other options. And actually, a lot of those people work too, although I have no idea why.
“This has to rank up there as one of the most ridiculous threads that doesn’t include the What ever to appear on Brownstoner.”
And how ironic that this might be the first time in Brownstoner history that the Open Thread did not have the most posts on a given day.
rob- you don’t even know what paranoia is. Hint: It’s not correcting someone for posting wrong information.
Gay guys make incredible wing men for straight guys but, for the same reason that women can’t be wingwomen for other women, gay guys can’t be wingmen for other gay guys.
With gay men as wingmen for hetero guys, there’s absolutely no conflict of interest.
> “Snark- I’ll throw in a velvet cape with ermine collar.”
That’s very generous bxgrl, but I’m short on closet space as it is.
(C’mon kids, I’ve set it up for you, now go to town!)
“Are you a hetero woman? I’ve always thought that dirty hipster sounded pretty sexy. Maybe give him a try…!”
And thus proves my hypothesis that, for me, gay guys make incredible wingmen
thanks 11217 😉
I would strongly suggest for anyone who does not have the time to read this entire thread to do a keyword search on “SnarkSlope” and enjoy the bon mots. There were some real gems today. Snark, I tip my asshat to you.