Scenes from the Brooklyn Heights House Tour
16 Sidney Place 33 Willow Place 41 Garden Place Brooklyn Heights House Tour Saturday [Brownstoner] House and Gardens Open Up [NY Times]
16 Sidney Place
33 Willow Place
41 Garden Place
Brooklyn Heights House Tour Saturday [Brownstoner]
House and Gardens Open Up [NY Times]
Anonymous 12:17 AM.
Thanks for letting me know–sometimes its hard to tell just what’s a joke on the internet.
It was a joke Bob. Fall is a lovely time for a tour…
When there is great weather, as there was last year, fall is a wonderful time for the Bed Stuy house tour. The leaves are just beginning to change, and BS has many tree lined blocks, and astors and mums are in bloom, and the neighborhood is at its best. The combination of brick, brownstone, woodwork, and fall earthtones seem perfect to me. Since BS is so large, walking the tour really provides you with an invigorating experience. They also provide free shuttle bus service between far flung points on the tour.
Anon 4:37,
Actually, I think the Bedford Stuyvesant tour (and also the one in Prospect Heights) are traditionally in the Fall because there’s so much competition for Spring dates. Even with those two neighborhoods’ tours in Oct. (21st for BS, 15th for PH) there are still some Spring tours on the same date (PLG & the Brownstone Garden tour on June 4th. (OK–one of them isn’t a HOUSE tour) and Flatbush and Boerum Hill on June 11th).
When I first started working on this stuff there were even more tours (Carroll Gardens, Sunset Park, Cobble Hill, Greenpoint, and a second PS tour for a few years on 6th Street, which dubbed itself the “Brazen Little Block” Needless to say,scheduling wasn’t easy.
Bed Stuy has to wait until it gets cold so all the dudes hangin’ out drinking and blaring music from their cars have gone inside for the winter.
Bed Stuy House Tour is always the third Saturday in October, so that would be Oct 21st this year.
Tickets and starting point has traditionally been at Boy’s High School on the corner of Marcy and Putnam.
Is BedSty having a house tour, and if so when? I don’t see it list in the NYT listing.
What number house on Middagh st. and what was it like. I missed the tour, but homes on that are nice.
I liked seeing the Middagh St — I always like to see the modern gut jobs — but I my heart still belongs to last year’s modern renovation in that carriage house on College Lane