Crown Heights Salvage Haul Explained
The Times picked up on the salvage story we reported two weeks ago and fleshed out some important details. First, the story confirmed that the house was being gutted to make way for a drug treatment center in Crown Heights at the corner of Park Place and Brooklyn Avenue. Evidently, to bring the building up…
The Times picked up on the salvage story we reported two weeks ago and fleshed out some important details. First, the story confirmed that the house was being gutted to make way for a drug treatment center in Crown Heights at the corner of Park Place and Brooklyn Avenue. Evidently, to bring the building up to fire code, all the wood material has to be removed. Second, the article answered the burning question of how much Circa Antiques paid to get all the goodies. The answer? A trifling $2,500! Pretty hard to believe, considering there’s got to be easily $100,000 worth of salvage there. Granted, Circa had to expend a lot of labor to remove the stuff, but still a nice profit margin. We’re pretty sure that the treatment center did not bid the project out, which is too bad for them since you know Olde Good Things would have paid considerably more than $2,500. Oh well, in the end we’re just happy that the fixtures and materials didn’t end up in a dumpster like the doors we showed earlier this morning.
Class, Brass and 23 Doors [NY Times]
Huge Arch Salvage Haul [Brownstoner]
Architectural Salvage [Circa Antiques]
where should the addicts go?
liberal does not equal tolerant of drug related crime and vagrancy – which is what these treatment centers often bring with them. And of course people are concerned if the centers are in their neighborhood. Call it nimbyism if you want, I don’t care. The idiotic argument that drug dealers and addicts are part of the city is juvenile (like the addicts and the drug dealers) and indicative of the apathetic culture that condones such behavior as ‘the way it is’. Only when the community views such activities as shameful and problematic will there be any real change.
Sorry after I hit post I noticed my grammatical errors.
Should read, I don’t know where the ….
I don’t know if there where the treatment centers are all I know is that this seemingly liberal-minded crowd gets all NIMBY when it comes to their property values.
No..I’m not new to the city…born & raised in good ole Brooklyn. I guess a little naive.
Anonymous, I understand your concern for people with addictions, but when you’re investing your hard earned money in a purchase of almost $1 millions and your trying to draw tenants who will pay rents of $1850 – $2000 to help with your mortgage, you do want to offer your tenants a desirable neighborhood. Are there drug treatment centers in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn Heights or Center Slope? Just curious.
Where do you all think the addicts should go? These people need help and they shouldn’t have to leave the city to do it. Addicts and dealers are just as much a part of city-living as brownstones. Get over yourselves.
The last poster is right, there are treatment centers all over the place. I was the one who posted about movements to close the ones in Clinton Hill and on Classon at the Bed Stuy border. I have not had any direct problems, but have neighbors who have had to deal with petty crime and aggressive panhandling.
FO, there are drug treatment centers in every area. New to New York City?
Wow!…That’s news to me since we’re in escrow to purchase a brownstone two blocks from this drug treatment center…how could the neighbors/homeowners allow this..Was this not discussed with the neighborhood prior to giving them the “go ahead?” I hope it doesn’t affect me directly. I guess in Brooklyn two blocks can make a difference. I hope!