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]
“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.”
rewrite>>>>
do most hedge fund managers really live in nice houses on long island? i find that hard to believe. based on appearance and how hedge fund managers talk it seems like most live in the ghetto areas of the city themselves.
that last post of mine came out sounding totally NOT what i think i intended to say. what i mean is that it seems like most new york city cops DO live already in the city.
*rob*
Some folks thought that I was you, but in a blond wig. Check out the OT from last thursday…you’d probably find it amusing….
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.
*rob*
11217…leave her alone. She’s having a difficult time with dates recently 🙂
“DH – I think in theory that’s great, but do you really think those dudes from LI really want to live in some subsidized housing in downtown BK or worse…Bushwick?
They think people like us are “weird,freaks or…artistes”!”
Probably not – but make it a requirement. Then you’ll actually have new cops who want to make a difference.
DH- rookies start at around 26,000. Average is, last I knew around 50-60,000. Like firefighters, many of them moonlight to make ends meet. Interestingly there were projects put up specifically for teachers, firefighters,cops and civil servants because it was desirable to keep them in the city. Amalgamated in the Bronx is one, and which still does focus on them. Others sort of fell by the wayside because the real estate was so valuable so they were priced out.
I’m definitely not jessibaby.
What the hell kind of name is that anyway?
And why the shout out to say you’re not me?
Missed something apparently.
uh no he does not get a tiara. when i said i meant philipino as in the phillipines i meant that as a joke. duh!
*rob*
(im so going with that)