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Both bedrooms are large, each with a sizable window on one end, and parquet floors.
Park Slope co-op asks $1.35M
Second fl oor unit boasts two large bedrooms and baths
Stephen Zacks
Brownstoner
This two-bedroom, twobath
co-op, located on the
second floor of a state-ofthe
art 1950 eight-story elevator
building on 8th Avenue
in Park Slope, could be
made into a showpiece of
modern design. The building
at 130 8th Ave., has chamfered
windows on both corners,
is within the Carroll
Street setback, and is a below
grade garage.
Inside the apartment, the
layout is a rational 1950s design
that plays off the triangular
cut-out. The foyer is open
to the living room, which features
parquet floors and broad
six-pane windows. It’s roomy
enough that one could imagine
a wall of books, and the space
includes a dining area through
a wide open threshold.
The niche coincides with
the chamfered bay of windows.
The adjacent kitchen is
arrayed on the diagonal with
a 90-degree angled counter
and a corner sink. The wood
cupboards, laminate counter,
stone-look floor and white
appliances appear clean and
functional.
The two bedrooms and
two bathrooms are entered
from the living room via a
diagonal aperture. Both bedrooms
are large, each with a
sizable window on one end,
and parquet floors.
The bathrooms appear to
be in good condition, with apparently
custom wood vanities
and vessel sinks. They
have tan floors and walls,
Border policy hits home
Chilling artistic replicas of caged children appear in boro
By Aidan Graham
Brooklyn Paper
Street art depicting children
locked in cages popped
up around Brooklyn on June
12, offering a harrowing critique
of the U.S. Government’s
handling of undocumented
immigrants crossing America’s
southern border.
One of the cages was installed
on Ninth Street in Park
Slope, just outside the YMCA
frequented by six-foot fiveinch
presidential candidate
Bill de Blasio, who strolled
past the five-by-three foot instillation
as he entered the gym
just before 9 a.m.
The chain-link cells, which
featured signs reading “#NoKidsInCages,”
were meant to
bring attention to the familyseparation
policy employed by
federal immigration officials
since April 2018, according to
the group behind the street-
Mayor needs subway control
Natural Gas Supplies at Risk in
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National Grid does not have enough natural gas supply to keep
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To support this growth, approval of the Northeast Supply Enhancement
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required to support our region.
Without NESE, National Grid will not be able to supply natural gas
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NYSDEC – Division of Environmental Permits
625 Broadway, 4th Floor
Albany, NY 12233
perhaps made of tile, stone or
laminate. Some may want to
update these with more contemporary
finishes, budget
allowing.
Throughout the apartment
are apparently custom-built
shelves and cupboards, most
likely added sometime in the
last 20 years or so, stained
to match the tan floors. A
coat closet, two linen closets,
and three closets in the bedrooms,
along with the builtins
allow for plenty of room
to hide things.
130 8th Avenue is in the
Park Slope Historic District;
the designation report calls it
“an unadorned brick apartment
house.” It replaced the
Charles Feltman Mansion
(the hot dog man) that was
designed by noted 19th century
architect Montrose Morris.
Begun in 1950 and completed
Douglas Elliman Real Estate
in 1951, it was designed
by A. Rollin Caughey and Rollin
A. Caughey, also known
for their 1930s Art Deco apartment
towers. This one featured
all of the latest postwar
appliances and was billed
at the time as “designed to
meet the needs of a new era
in which luxury must be balanced
by economy.”
Located not far from Grand
Army Plaza, today it’s a full
service doorman building
with 72 units and an ADAcompliant
lobby. The maintenance
is on the high side at
$1,588. Listed by John Mazurek
and McKinley Jones
III of Douglas Elliman, the
co-op is asking $1.35 million.
Does it have potential?
By Corey Johnson
for Brooklyn Paper
We’ve all been there: Stuck
in a crowded subway car due
to “signal problems,” or sitting
on a bus moving so slowly
that you might as well have
walked.
Frustration with our mass
transit system is a New York
state of mind we’re all unfortunately
accustomed to, but I
truly believe it doesn’t have
to be this way.
The vast majority of the
problems with our system can
be summed up in one word:
accountability.
There isn’t any.
The MTA is a state authority
controlled by the governor
with its own budget that’s approved
by a bunch of board
members most New Yorkers
have never even heard of.
It’s confusing, which is
the point.
How else could the people
in charge avoid blame and responsibility
when things go
wrong?
The buck has to stop with
someone, and it has to be
someone who knows if they
don’t get it right their job is
on the line.
This is why I support municipal
control of the subways,
which would mean accountability
will fall squarely on
one person - the Mayor of New
York City.
It means we run our subways,
we run Staten Island
rail, we plan our bus routes
— right now the City doesn’t
even do that – and we control
the toll money from the seven
bridges and tunnels currently
run by the MTA.
I know what you’re thinking.
That’s all well and good,
but how does that help my
commute?
Those signal problems
making you late for work
all the time?
That is what happens when
no one is responsible.
It’s the result of decades of
misplaced priorities.
Our subways signals date
back to the 1930s.
They’ve never been upgraded
because the MTA’s
governance structure incentivized
short term glamour
projects over the long term
investments we really need.
It’s painting the outside of a
house that’s falling apart inside.
And the result? We allow
a 21st century system to operate
with infrastructure that
was built in the 1930s like
it is now.
What about our slow
buses?
Municipal control would
help get our buses moving
again because for the first
time ever, the City – and not
the State – would be able to
quickly fix routes that aren’t
working and work in close
coordination with the Department
of Transportation,
which is currently under our
control.
That means better, more
cohesive bus service that gets
New Yorkers where they need
to be faster.
It makes no sense that different
entities are covering
both now. Municipal control
isn’t just more accountable.
It’s more efficient too.
Making municipal control
a reality won’t be easy, and
it won’t happen overnight.
But this is worth fighting for.
We have to think big to solve
the problem of how we move
around our city. We can’t let
fear of the politically difficult
stop us from taking on this
challenge. We have to get New
York City moving again.
I’m ready to fight for this
for as long as it takes to make
it happen. I hope you’ll fight
alongside me.
Corey Johnson is the New
York City Council speaker
OP-ED
art project.
“Guerrilla installations
popped up early this morning
in NYC as protest to the
more than 3,000 children separated
from their parents at
the border,” said RAICES
in a June 12 tweet . “This is
not history. This is happening
now. #No KidsInCages is
about the children. We cannot
be a nation that separates
families.
RAICES — Refugee and
Immigrant Center for Education
and Legal Services — is
a Texas-based immigration legal
services nonprofit organization,
which provided an
accompanying website to the
24 instillations, they used to
blast the government’s policies
cruel and unusual.
Police officers fanned out
across the city, dismantling
the cages within hours.
A mysterious activist installed several installations
around Brooklyn depicting children in cages to protest
the handling of the immigration seekers.
Photo by Paul Martinka
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