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]
For the record, I don’t think nannies are stupid (they are SUPER fun to party with, #1) but I just find it odd that some people seem to have children to then hire someone else to basically raise them and be with them for the bulk of their awake hours. That’s all. If I have a kid, I want to do the raising myself.
I’m sorry that that’s so offensive to so many here.
And here I was giving you a compliment, dh!
I think 11217 has some valid reasons for thinking nannies are stupid and I don’t think that his lack of children is one of them.
LOL jessi. oh yeah 11217 is single. ugh remember when you people tried to set me up on a date with him!?! you people need to stop the match making stuff. i think you all do it to be mean!
*rob*
nanny’s = nannies
Love that for us, Jessi!
I’m gay and not single at the moment, babe.
Are you a hetero woman? I’ve always thought that dirty hipster sounded pretty sexy. Maybe give him a try…!
Snark is more my type. 😉
DH- you can check- a couple of years ago the City negotiated the starting salary for rookies at 26,000.
I am not trying to prioritize people in terms of importance but one thing to remember. Cops, firefighters, and teachers do belong to unions. They have benefits and base salaries and pensions that most freelancers can only dream of. And not that I think they shouldn’t be treated better or paid better, because they certainly deserve it.
But subsidizing those with the lowest salaries and without benefits is a stopgap and a safety net. If they wind up on the street, we’ll still be paying for them one way or another, but it will be for less positive or productive reasons. I think we talking about who deserves it more as opposed to who needs it more.
OK, I’ll happily give up my tiara this time.
It’s not as if I’ll have to wait very long – I’m starting the egg timer now – before he says something else of staggering stupidity that wasn’t meant as a joke.
“P.S. Are you single? Wanna go out?”
11217 plays for the other team – hence why he thinks nanny’s are stupid.