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]
This has to rank up there as one of the most ridiculous threads that doesn’t include the What ever to appear on Brownstoner.
It seems that several of the angry posters didn’t bother to read the article. To *rob*, benson, etson, etc: try doing a little bit of research before deciding that your tax dollars got abused, or that “they
” should have given the housing to someone more deserving. May I suggest going to commonground.org, and actorsfund.org to learn a bit about what the philosophies of these two groups are, how they get their money, and how they spend it. A particularly enlightening bit is the part where the maximum incomes of people applying for apartments is listed (this was also in the Times) and how rents are tied to that income. Also check the part that lists what state subsidized housing costs per bed per year, vs. what housing provided by tghe Actors Fund costs. After seeing these numbers and reading about the “artists” this project is meant to include, the snarky comments about hipters with iPods and Macs will seem a bit ebarrassing.
OK…lets regroup and try to remember the original title to this thread:
“Lots of Love for The Schermerhorn House”
haha sorry 11217! just bustin your chops – you know how we do.
YES bxgirl i was the one who said the long blonde wig but not the original accuser, i dont do that! and like i said it was either you or bayridgegirl, so i guess it was her.
youre so paranoid sometimes!
*rob*
And that, rob, is why most parents shouldn’t be parents.
gross. if i had a kid that last thing id want to do is take care of it myself. so yeah if i was stuck in that unfortunate situation and could afford it i’d hire a “nanny” stat to tend to my little crotch fruit so i can actually have a life.
*rob*
Snark- I’ll throw in a velvet cape with ermine collar.
No- not me, rob. You said it. I remember it very well. Don’t add “liar” to your long list of questionable personal attributes.
NILFs??
I def think Jessibabeeee is an alter-ego of one of you guys