Are you familiar with this building in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn? It's the former ladies’ parlor for the South Congregational church and The New York Times takes us inside to meet the owners (and see pictures!) in their newish regular feature, Who Lives There?...
See more of Richard Cantor and Andrea Lilienthal's Romanesque revival home: Who Lives There: A House That Was the Ladies’ Parlor for a Church.
Images: Hiroko Masuike for The New York Times
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Comments (11)
Thank you! I walk by this all the time and am so envious of them!!
Beautiful house, but sad they painted over the wood of the window frames.
wow. now THAT's a kitchen. love it
It's very tragic what has happened to Carroll Gardens. Since it was colonized by yuppies and hipsters, families that have been living there for generations have been forced out. Please watch this video:
http://mediastorm.org/workshops_0002.htm
how high are the ceilings in the kitchen? anyone?
there are no hipsters in carroll gardens.
if only dogs and babies could survive on pasta alone...
You're right hazelnut_spread - no one should ever move. We should all just stay in the houses we're born in. And shame on all those former Carroll Gardens residents who've moved to other neighborhoods, cities and nice houses in the suburbs.
"Please watch this video: http://mediastorm.org/workshops_0002.htm "
Wow. Talk about clinging to false security. How does the song go? "A working class hero is nothing to be..." There is a reason "all the kids moved away", and it's not because a condo replaced a run down diner. Change is not the bogeyman.
Seventy years ago Carrol Gardens was lovely and then came the not so nice years, which is when the Italian families--most of whom owned their buildings--sold up and moved out. At the time, it was called "white flight". Carolyn Cole tells a great story in that video, but it's fiction.
Palmetto - as someone who spent her childhood in CG, I witnessed many long-term inhabitants reluctantly give up homes they could no longer afford. It's not fiction. I don't consider the decline of affordable housing to be a "good" change.
To put it bluntly, anyone who rides the gentrification wave can't relate. You resent "urban renewal" when your community is overrun by a transplanted bourgeoisie that considers itself "Marty Markowitz" after only a few weeks of residency.
I live in Carroll Gardens, walked by this loads of time..never knew what was on the inside though...lovely.