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Regency meet Mayan meet Industrial meet Colonial meet Forest meet Manicure Shop in red/white bedroom by window meet Long Island backyard meet El Encanto courtyard fountain meet Paul Williams staircase railing. Love it.

NY Curbed, which has its own vested interest in portraying Williamsburg as "bad before, good now," precisely because gentrification is real property profit on imagined void, would have actually been going "above and beyond" as some of these more ludicrous commenters are putting it if, for example, the author did his due diligence and noted these interesting NY Times pieces in that crucial time period in his piece when things seemed to shift right after "people continued to riot even when the riots were over."

In Paul Montgomery’s "An Angry Businessman’s War on Crime," [February 7, 1982], note that the NY Times, which this author claims is "hyperbolic" while himself using some of the same hyperbole, leaves this particular statement by the eponymous "angry businessman" in Williamsburg: "‘’I can’t knock capitalism, I’ve prospered under it, but we seem to put money above human life,‘’ he said. ’’Now the Mayor of New York is a super guy, but why can’t he admit that crime is out of control here? They’re afraid business and tourists won’t come. I think they know the true facts, they just can’t go public on it."

Tourists? In Williamsburg? In 1982? How possible if rioters are rioting after the riots are over?

Or, these other pieces by the NY Times that were circulating simultaneous to this period when the author claimed that "students and artists" were coming to Williamsburg because, presumably, they sat in a corner somewhere indefinite, chanting and meditating "CHEAP RENT," and then, like anthropomorphic divining rods, somehow they moved mindlessly towards a field of dreams not yet built opened their eyes and they were on the middle of Bedford Avenue like a trance:

October 16, 1983: Lee Daniels: "Eleven Alternatives to Costly Manhattan"
October 16, 1983: "A Dual Message in Williamsburg"
October 30, 1983: Marcus Brauchli: "Brooklyn Rents Lure Artists"
November 6, 1983: Lee Daniels: "Saving Local Housing Groups"—note that not three weeks earlier Daniels was the first NY Times reporter to openly solicit gentrification {"Eleven Alternatives to Costly Manhattan"} whereas here he implicitly derogates housing groups advocating for the Hispanic and poor of Williamsburg—competitors for space.

In especially Daniel’s pieces, early in the gentrification of Williamsburg, "sweat equity" and the promise of buildings undergoing in rem proceedings and offered for $1 were being announced to NY Times readership—a readership not unrelated to those characteristics we know to make up an "agent of gentrification."

This says "celebrity rehab center" to me.

The ‘house’ above it in the last pic is part of the estate, but the house that’s actually* above it is allegedly/possibly/maybe Paul Allen’s LA house… but who knows/cares.

• You can kinda see it in the third to last image, up on the ridge. You can definitely see it in Google maps.

The house above this one is not Paul Allen’s house. Yes, Paul Allen does own a compound nearby, but it’s further down Coldwater Canyon. The "house" directly above this one has been owned for ages by a Saudi prince.

There are 125 trees at Van Dyke and Goethe, 125 trees on St. Paul between Fischer and Crane, 125 trees at the corner of McClellan and Lessing, and 125 trees on Bewick, just north of Kercheval.

Great building in Tribeca and one of the best aspects is having full building services from the adjacent building, something that is just not possible with other townhouses. It seems to play up he sexy factor a bit – the second batch of photos looking great. As with most properties that touch the sexy factor (see Lenny Kravitz loft on Crosby), they tend to sit a while or end up being re-branded/designed then re marketed.Not sure why, perhaps they have women skeptical, men feeling they want to create their own den of fun, and families just not imagining living there – that said the past is the past. With such an abundance of space and such an international driven market, an alignment with one or more art galleries to hold events will bring in that traffic and those buyers. Even an alignment with Roman and Williams Design would be great for buyers that do not ave vision. Lastly, the outdoor space seems to have great flow to the outdoor space which may not be realized by buyers in the winter time. Perhaps, its a good idea to tinker with a few marketing concepts/ideas and then re-launch in the spring..

The spacing is that close so they will grow straight, with few side branches. That is ideal for lumber production.

Who could forget…………
Jacob’s Ladder
Cloverfield
Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
Q: THE WINGED SERPENT Filmed on location at the Chrysler Building, you get a rare look at the top-most floor of the spire.
Wolfen
Midnight Meat Train (It was originally written for New York, but shooting moved to LA for budget reasons.) It’s shot in a subway for 95% of time and not bad for low budget.
The Sentinel (1977) John Williams was supposed to do the score for the movie. Then he backed out to work on a little known film called Star Wars.
The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms Tells the story of a hibernating dinosaur who, after being awoken by atomic bomb testing in the Arctic, comes to New York and tears the place up.
The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1959) Immensely good.

Two absolutely brilliant camp films which I still watch regularly****
The Hunger
and
Liquid Sky http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085852/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Architecturally the layout looks good, but the finishes are horrid. 8 mil is not cheap even for Brooklyn as trendy as Cobble Hill maybe. Shoulda gone for white oak wide planks with a matte wax finish, not this glossy and veiny dirty stain that looks better in a McMansion in the Midwest aiming for sophistication. Also shoulda gone for painted cabinets, anything other than orang-y cheap looking mdf wood. Kitchen already looks dated before the punch list was finished. Same with bathrooms, what no Waterworks fixtures, not even their square shower drain?

The developer didn’t have to be creative or original, just ape after other better architects’ works like a Roman & Williams, Juhl Hansen, Selldorf. For eff sakes you can’t scroll through a page of Curbed without running into hi-res photos or renderings of their work.

So close yet so far away, and utterly provincial.