Redhook firefighters keep on hooking
Tall prospect for eastern edge of park
Prospect Park is about to get another glass tower overlooking it. Park Tower, a 23-story luxury condo tower on Lincoln Road is due to be finished in 2009. The 88,000-square-foot-building, with an interesting skew in its upper floors, will also include retail on its first floor. You can see what it looks like in the Daily News. The Prospect-Lefferts Gardens neighborhood didn’t get as much bounce from the recent real estate boom as other areas. This project could make a difference.
Woes be gone for home owner Keillor
Garrison Keillor, the amiable host of NPR’s “Prairie Home Companion,” has put his above-average home up for sale. The seven-bedroom, Georgian style house is in St. Paul and priced at $1.65 million. His departure drives a stake in the heart of a dispute with his next-door neighbor. You can read the full story on the New York Times site.
Oscars on their way to the Slope
Two Park Slope residents won an Oscar this week for their short documentary Freeheld. Directed by Cynthia Wade and produced by Vanessa Roth, the film reports the struggle that Detective Lieutenant Laurel Hester faced trying to transfer her pension to her domestic partner, Stacie Andree. Hester was a 25-year veteran of the Ocean County, N.J., police force when she found out she had terminal cancer.
Not so super super
‘Liening’ on water deadbeats
Yesterday’s NY Daily News included several pages of properties with city liens against them. What was different about this set is that many of the properties are there for unpaid water bills.
Apparently, about 18 percent of the city’s water customers don’t pay their bills. And that’s no drop in the bucket; collectively they owe some $600 million.
A new law, signed early this year, lets the city impose liens that can be sold to collection agencies. As a last resort, those agencies can foreclose on a deadbeat's property for unpaid bills.
"What was going on for a long time was similar to four people going out to dinner, and one of the four people then goes to the men's room or ladies' room and never comes back. So what that meant is that the three that were left were left with the bill for the fourth person," said Councilman James Vacca of the Bronx.
Owners of single-family homes don’t face the new lien approach nor do those who get tax exemptions for seniors, the disabled and the poor.
Future Toll on the Gowanus? (Updated)
Curious about the future of the Gowanus Canal area? The blog Curbed has renderings and maps of a development planned by the Toll Brothers. The project, aimed to open in 2011, has a ways to go, including securing city approval.
And Brownstoner has photos of buildings now occupying the Toll Brothers’ target area.
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