No Sleep till Brooklyn
This weekend, between rehersals for her show on 10/1, my amazing bride and her wonderful mother found us a great apartment in New York City. It is a newly renovated railroad apartment with lots of light and space (for NYC), in a Brooklyn Neighborhood called Bedford-Stuyvesant (pronounced STY-vuh-sent), on Fulton Street, 2 blocks from the Nostrand Avenue A-train and Long Island Railroad stops. We’re almost right across the street from Restoration Plaza. (I’m procrastinating from studying about the Airbus A320 by finding these links) Here are some photos:
Looking into the main living room from the building hallway. You had to climb 2 flights of stairs to get here.
The main front room (den?) has lots of great light with its south-facing windows. That’s Valerie, the broker who helped us find this place in the photo. There is stuff on the erstwhile mantle because the landlord is still finishing up the renovation.
Here’s Ellie standing in the den looking toward the windows with the door from the building hallway to the left. To the right (Ellie’s left) is the door to the allegedly master bedroom.
A railroad apartment is one where there is no hallway. To get from the front, allegedly master bedroom, to the bathroom or kitchen, you have to walk through the back bedroom. Fortunately for us, there are two hallway entrances to our apartment, so if the second bedroom is occupied, we can put on slippers and walk through the building hallway to get to the back entrance of our unit. Behind Ellie, you can see the doorways from the front to the back bedrooms and from the back bedroom to the den.
Here’s our walk-in closet in the allegedly MBR. There’s also a nook to the right where we’ll probably put some furniture or build some shelves.
This is looking back toward the den from the allegedly MBR. I think the bed will probably fit here.
Standing in the closet, you get a vista of the expansive allegedly MBR. On the left edge of the photo you can see a window. This goes to an alleged courtyard. I think all bedrooms, by law, have to have a window. This meets the letter of the law.
Sticking the camera out of the window to the alleged courtyard and looking up. I’m really suprised that my wife picked a place with a glass ceiling.
Unfortunately, I didn’t get any pics of the second bedroom, but it is basically the same size as the alleged MBR, minus the nook. Here Ellie is explaining where the furniture will go in the TV room, aka the back (aft for those of the [aero]nautical pursuasion) common room.
The view out the back (aft) common room window — a tree to keep the black lung at bay by providing us and the other one thousand residents of our block with oxygen … at least during the growing season!
A blurry view from the window of the back (aft) common room. Wow, a closet! To the left, the back (aft) entrance to our apartment. To the right, the arched entrance to the hallway leading further back (aft) to the bathroom and kitchen.
The bathroom is functional.
The kitchen has about 7.62 square feet of counter space. I think that will be enough for any dish-drainer we might acquire.
The view out of the kitchen onto our fire escape.
Perhaps that fire escape will be the scotch and cigars haven…
Mmmmm … scotch ….