It Happened One Weekend: Actual Affordable Apartments!

Monday, October 1, 2007, by Joey

1) It's that time of year again, when a reporter sets out to find NYC apartments for under or around the national median price (which is now $224,000). This go-round's winning neighborhoods: Inwood, Jackson Heights, Forest Hills, Flatbush—and the place you're really not moving to—Riverdale. ['Even in New York, Affordable Apartments'/Vivian S. Toy]

2) Urban anthropologist Fred Kent chips in his two cents on some parts of our fair city and how to improve them. Washington Square Park: almost perfect. Brooklyn Borough Hall: "Brooklyn could be defined by this space." Bleecker Street: no cars! Battery Park City: "a mishmash of stuff that doesn’t fulfill human needs."

3) In Suzanne Slesin's latest real estate porn column, she heads to the 650 Sixth Avenue gallery because she's married to an art dealer, and she checks out 151 Wooster (right) because the architect once designed an addition for a house she and her husband owned. The New York Times, everybody! Oh, and apparently those 151 Wooster penthouses weren't combined, because they are still on the market. [Window Shopping/Suzanne Slesin]

4) "The carriage house was almost like a status symbol, and all my friends loved going there," she said, "but now I realize that while the house is very inward looking, this apartment, with the weather constantly changing out the windows, is expansive." A 16-year-old said that. Wow, rich people are weird. [Habitats/Stephen P. Williams]

5) "Something that made sense to us, where we could see our energies flowing in and out very naturally." A 22-year-old said that. Wow, NYU hippies are weird. [The Hunt/Joyce Cohen]

6) A peek at Fiske Terrace and Midwood Park in Central Brooklyn, which will most likely be landmarked as a historic district on October 18. [The City/Jennifer Bleyer]

Filed under Brooklyn, Brooklyn: Downtown Brooklyn, Brooklyn: Flatbush/Kensington, Manhattan: Chelsea, Manhattan: Financial District/Wall St/Battery Park City, Manhattan: Greenwich Village, Manhattan: Inwood/Washington Heights, Manhattan: Soho, Queens: Astoria & Beyond, Real Estate For Sale, Urban Planning, 151 Wooster Street, 650 Sixth Avenue, Fiske Terrace, Midwood Park

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Comments (10 extant)

Do they purposely seek out the biggest assholes they can find for "The Hunt"?? Every time I read that column it makes me want to hurt someone.

By #1 Cynic at October 1, 2007 10:36 AM

God, the Hunt features two of those "I dont even own a TV" people. gag.

By Anonymous at October 1, 2007 10:52 AM

One aspect of "The Hunt" series in the Sunday Times, is that the featured person/couple or family frequently finds exactly what they were looking for. That may be annoying if you are a #1 Cynic.

By UWSider at October 1, 2007 10:53 AM

cable hook ups? whats that for? Oh, I dont even own a TV.

By Anonymous at October 1, 2007 11:32 AM

Those "no TV" people bother me. Not because they don't have TV, but because the INSIST on telling you about it. Hush up, no-TV-people. No one cares.

By CopyGal at October 1, 2007 12:03 PM

TV is awesome.

By anonymous at October 1, 2007 12:32 PM

#3, Really? I thought it was a column about sportsmen ?

Sarcasm aside, I have no qualms about the concept behind the column (people trying to find a place, and finding one that is ideal, or close to it). It is the assholes they they get for these stories.

By #1 Cynic at October 1, 2007 12:45 PM

The "no TV" couple are just rebelling against the incredibly boring backwaters where they came from -- Coral Springs, FL and Cleveland, OH. The fact that they have to call attention to themselves for not watching TV says more about them than it does about other "no TV" people (or normal people who do watch TV, for that matter).

By Bing at October 1, 2007 12:57 PM

Urban anthropologist Fred Kent should have gone further north to Rockefeller Park to see a BPC park packed with sunbathers, couple, families having picnics, playing ball, playing with the equipment that the park provides, etc. In the summer you can harldy find a space to park yourself.

Nothing like spending as little time as possible researching the subject to come up with a specious conclusion.

By Anonymous at October 1, 2007 1:27 PM

10.

The day Brooklyn College becomes gentrified and I can't afford it, I move out of town. A feat of that nature would be downright depressing, and it would mean that the entire rest of Brooklyn is so absurdly expensive as to not even be funny.

By anon at October 1, 2007 6:40 PM