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 think he’d rather go out with rob, JB.
no no no!!! i did not. i wasnt the person who accussed jessica of being 11217, it was bayridgegirl or bxgirl.. i just added the long blonde wig part.
*rob*
“Check out the OT from last thursday…you’d probably find it amusing….”
“I’d rather scratch my eyes out with a walnut.”
I’ll sum it up then: people found me so cocky and annoying that they thought I was you 🙂
P.S. Are you single? Wanna go out?
“”do most cops really live in nice houses on long island? i find that hard to believe. based on appearance and how cops talk it seems like most new cops live in the ghetto areas of the city themselves.”
I find there are alot of cops who commute on the LIRR everyday from areas like Ronkonkoma, Babylon, Deer Park, etc. Decent working class neighborhoods with decent schools for their children. I know this seems crazy to some of you, as these places don’t have brownstones or fifi wine bars, but it is what it is.
“Check out the OT from last thursday…you’d probably find it amusing….”
I’d rather scratch my eyes out with a walnut.
I agree DH – I would love to see more cops who actually have a vested interest in our city communities b/c they work,live and send their kids to the schools here.
BXGRL –
So if rookies start out at 26K it would be very hard for them to live in many places in the five boros comfortably.
I think what this whole thread boils down to is that there are many more lines of work that are very important to this city that deserve subsidized housing before people in the arts do. Can anyone really stand up and say that artists deserve subsidized housing before poilce officers, firefighters, nurses, teachers who are an integral part of our societies, but their importance is not reflected in their salaries?
Not to get rob into any more trouble with 11217, but it was he who threw out the caricature of 11217 in a blonde wig posting as jessibaby
LOL
DH- I think it is a requirement- or was until very recently. But they couldn’t afford it, and when the rule was made, many of them already lived outside NYC. Still- you’ll find many cops and firefighters living in Queens and Staten Island as well as Brooklyn.