Brooklyn Development Update Mania #1: Overlooking Death

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Maybe it's my goth past, but I would find overlooking a cemetary kind of peaceful. Certainly better than living across the street from a bar or school.

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Creepy stuff. I am talking about the designs.

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Think of the cemetary as a guaranteed open view.

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Someone should cover their bodies in dirt, put on holloween style makeup, and stagger down the street by the building while moaning.

Basically look like a williamsburg hipster in between heroin fixes.

It'll be fun to scare the living crap out of the residents.

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Guaranteed view? Don't bet on it in todays' climate. I can just see the posts: "Those dead beats oughtta pay market rates! Why is my high rent paying to subsidize those loafers and bitter renters. Get em out of there and build something tall, with market rates -- they should carry their own damned dead weight!"

Yeesh -- Philly looks better and beter every day.

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I can just see the marketing campain: "Live at 11 Terrace Place: where the neighbors are quiet."

This marketing stuff is so easy. I should quit my job and go into real estate marketing.

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btw, anyone know what's going up nearby at the corner of 11th avenue and prospect avenue? across the street from the key food?

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mm -- you forgot to mention: "at the confluence of life and death" -- that always sells 'em!

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i love how you talk about the dead and philly in the same posting.

quite appropriate given what a shithole philly is.

talk about a tanking real estate market.

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Samuel Beckett's apartment in Paris looked out over a prison exercise yard. I'd take the cemetary.

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The cemetery is not as scary as you would think. It does guarantee 1 side of quiet neighbors. With the cemetery comes a lot of greenery. If you are into nature, these condos have Prospect Park near by, and the cemetery up front. This is green than you will in most condos projects. My opinion.

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jake, jake, jake. we are supposed to make flinty, pithy remarks on this website, not spout good old common sense.

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will they search for 911 remains there?

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What's scarier than the cemetery is the traffic on McDonald Avenue. Trucks. Enough to wake the dead.

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I've got no issue at all living next to a cemetery, but I couldn't manage the truck traffic off of McDonald Ave. FYI to all, with the exception of #14 and myself, all of you have mispelled "Cemetery".

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Greenwood Cemetery is actually really nice. They have an interesting tour that I've been on. Back in the day, it actually served as a Central Park of sorts (before there was one) where Manhattanites would take day trips. There's a lake, rolling hills, nice trees. I don't get the whole freak out thing. Now the trucks & buses, that's why you wouldn't want to live on McDonald.

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where is everyone currently buying there electronics for these new developments ? tv's , phones, etc..

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The neighbors are quiet, but the trucks on MacDonald Avenue are very loud.