Open House Picks
Park Slope 147 Lincoln Place Brown Harris Stevens Sunday 12:30-2:30pm $1,875,000 GMAP Carroll Gardens 19 3rd Street Cobble Heights #5249643 Sunday 2-4pm $1,500,000 GMAP Prospect Heights 526 Carlton Avenue Corcoran Sunday 1-3pm $1,499,000 GMAP Flatbush 377 East 32nd Street Prudential Douglas Elliman Saturday 3-4:30 pm $595,000 GMAP
Park Slope
147 Lincoln Place
Brown Harris Stevens
Sunday 12:30-2:30pm
$1,875,000
GMAP
Carroll Gardens
19 3rd Street
Cobble Heights #5249643
Sunday 2-4pm
$1,500,000
GMAP
Prospect Heights
526 Carlton Avenue
Corcoran
Sunday 1-3pm
$1,499,000
GMAP
Flatbush
377 East 32nd Street
Prudential Douglas Elliman
Saturday 3-4:30 pm
$595,000
GMAP
But if there are no seats (and chivalry is long dead apparently) how can they sit on your knee?
I think the objection is not to kids per se on the subway at rush hour, but rather parents refusing to fold down their strollers and reduce the enormous footprint they occupy in what are already rather crowded trains. The slogan use to be “small enough to ride for free, small enought to ride on your knee”.
I hate strollers on the subway at rush hour, but I imagine that the parents pushing those strollers hate it as much as I do and wouldn’t be there if they didn’t absolutely have to.
A necessary evil, and those people have nothing but my pity — if they did have the resources to have a car they certainly wouldn’t be struggling up and down stairs, etc., with strollers.
Anon 03:57 PM — If you have a problem with kids on the subway at rush hour… then walk. Kids are part of the city and our community. And believe it or not, then have places to go to. You’re a grinch.
But isn’t that an infuriating part of the whole AY thing – the plans change, gehry says he doesn’t know what he will build where, the number of residential units goes up and down, the public space disapprears, the office space disappears, the site expands across Flatbush. Are they sloppy and amateurish or are they just manipulative. The overall effect is very bush league.
There was much concern in the neighborhood that Carlton Ave would be widened by 4 ft from Flatbush to Pacific, thus destroying all the mature trees that line the avenue. However I subsequently heard that this is NOT the case and was based on a misreading of the AY plans that became available when the EIS process began recently. I’d love to see confirmation of that. Meanwhile that doesn’t change the fact that 526 Carlton will be directly across the street from part of the AY building site (the “superblock” portion — yes, that outdated urban renewal concept from the 60s — that will cover Atlantic to Dean and Carlton to Vanderbilt) and just around the corner from the towers that will be built on the other side of Pacific St from Newswalk.
I’m sure Brownstoner could do without a car but prefers not to – and I don’t hear him complaining about traffic or that only people with kids need/should have cars.
Its a luxury and convenience and he can afford to and chooses it. So big deal.
I find it more annoying the parents that get on the subway at rushhour with the kids but still see it as their choice.
But we now know why Malymis is so anti-ratnerville….she drives around instead of walking and doesn’t want other cars in her way.
Mimi,
What proof do you have that Carlton will be widened? Can you provide a link? I’d appreciate it, as I’m interested in learning more.
Thanks!
If living in Brooklyn with kids is so tough, then why have I seen parents and their children on the subway every day for the past fifteen years? If other people can manage this, then so can you. People complain about traffic, but no one is willing to give up their cars.