tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post7010235367380452670..comments2023-11-05T01:14:14.295-07:00Comments on The Real Estalker: The Bouwerie Lane Building BallyhooYour Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14600002907755148264noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-13443196835673693202010-06-19T10:53:59.739-07:002010-06-19T10:53:59.739-07:00I have lived around the corner from that building ...I have lived around the corner from that building since the early 80's, back when the neighborhood was too scary for the kind of people who move here now. (I'll take the junkies and bums over drunken NYU students and conformist hipsters any day, at least they were quiet.) Before that block became so fancy it was one of the the most notorious rat blocks around. At night you had to stamp your feet while walking down the street. Actually had a rat run right onto my foot on the sidewalk in front of this now way too fancy building once home of the late lamented Jean Cocteau Repertory at the Bouwerie Lane Theatre.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-68359606660628191982010-06-18T19:14:19.087-07:002010-06-18T19:14:19.087-07:00HaHa--SHE IS ONE OF THEM!!HaHa--SHE IS ONE OF THEM!!Mama'sBoyhttp://maxtesatora@yahoo.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-64042637354262279192010-06-18T14:08:06.021-07:002010-06-18T14:08:06.021-07:00so true Mama's Boy..the most well kept secret ...so true Mama's Boy..the most well kept secret the real estate peeps don't mention is that HUGE RAT problem.. i too worked at the former Remote lounge on the Bowery about a few doors from the former CBGB and on trash nite the RATS would come out in mass at those plastic bags ..you would have to walk in the middle of the street to avoid them..how did your Mama miss this.. but always SJP?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-23210441688438100492010-06-17T23:54:55.730-07:002010-06-17T23:54:55.730-07:00I love this building! Me and my rented Ryder truck...I love this building! Me and my rented Ryder truck arrived in NYC in 1996 and stayed first in a rented room of this crazy butoh dancer's studio/apt--it was right across the street from the side of the Amato Opera building, just around the corner from venerable (and of course now extinct) CBGB's...<br /><br />It was such a tall order to find a 2-bedroom apartment with roof access and fire escape "balconies" for under $1,200 then--near impossible. But I kept the faith, gathering with the masses at the Village Voice building at Cooper Union on Wednesday evenings was it?--and flocking to the nearest payphone to try and nail down ANYTHING!<br /><br />Finally found something to fit that tall order--at Bowery and Stanton--one block S. of Houston. It was a rat-the-size-of-cats infested "2 br." in a what the agent romantically dubbed a "carriage house" building (that means it was in the back of the street building with a view of the backside of the front building less than 10 yards away...) The bedrooms were the size of smallish walk-in closets and held exactly a full size futon mat and a lawyer's bookcase.<br /><br />I always tell people--"now this was before the Bowery/ L.E.S. was cool" and it so was. Walking home from seemingly posh jobs at Todd Oldham and Anthroplogie in Soho--crossing over from well lit Comme des Garcons window displays and chic cigar bars to riff-raff hanging outside of deplorable flop-houses and the endless wholesale restaurant supply emporiums of the Bowery then...I would march my snakeskin loafers loudly down the street to try and keep the massive rats from scuffling right across my feet, but inevitably, I would have to slip in between two parked cars to get to my door. Oh those rats were ruthless--I honestly wish I had done a photo essay on them because most would not believe me!<br /><br />I've been back in Austin since 1997-8 and never looked back--haven't been to NYC since 2004 or 5, but I can only imagine what the Bowery must be like now. I got a taste of it even back then as Giuliani whitewashed the incredibly fun and seedy East Village and Hell's Kitchen--breaks my heart to see the mystique of the one-time greatest city in the world scrubbed into a boring playground for the privileged...<br /><br />Anyway,<br />Hugs!Mama'sBoyhttp://maxtesatora@yahoo.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-60663464657357482222010-06-17T18:16:57.616-07:002010-06-17T18:16:57.616-07:00the apartment is nice but can you imagine living d...the apartment is nice but can you imagine living down there with all those hipsters? hipsters piss me off because the whole hipster mantra is about being counter culture and such, and yet they all shop at American Apparel and Urban Outfitters, two of the most mass-market retailers around. Ran into a kid wearing a Ramones T-shirt and when i asked what his favorite Ramones song was he replied I dont know, I just like the shirt. The vast majority are posers.Jakenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-73005233847964542012010-06-17T17:28:05.498-07:002010-06-17T17:28:05.498-07:00Mama, being off the booze is unhealthy.
You need t...Mama, being off the booze is unhealthy.<br />You need to keep the alcohol flowing, purely for municipal porpoises, if nothing else.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-74982522047087342752010-06-17T17:28:05.497-07:002010-06-17T17:28:05.497-07:00Dearest Mama:
A wine tasting room on the fifth fl...Dearest Mama:<br /><br />A wine tasting room on the fifth floor adjacent to the chef's kitchen, and Mama's on the wagon? Surely, Mama, a wine spritzer wouldn't really count for much, especially on the astroturf-covered rooftop terrace crying out for Brown Jordan.<br /><br />And it appears that the fifth floor reception room turns into the third and fourth floor dining rooms, and that one must enter the living room via the kitchen, just like in that celebrity Beresford apartment Mama reviewed sometime ago. My goodness, some New Yorkers live in uncivilized layouts. No wonder that Eddie and Eva moved out of their Park Avenue penthouse to Green Acres, Long Island.<br /><br />HeddaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-76770191133275888022010-06-17T17:03:51.049-07:002010-06-17T17:03:51.049-07:00Yo Mama!
While Hedda read your blog for inspired ...Yo Mama!<br /><br />While Hedda read your blog for inspired decorating ideas I liked to look over her shoulder at Pamela Anderson's breasts, and now you made 'em disappear. Hedda thinks I'm not interested no more in new ideas for bed and bath habitating, which ain't exactly true, if you know what I mean.<br /><br />And Mama, I'm worried about you going cold turkey on the wagon and getting a bad case of DTs. Please drink up, and raise one to Trenton, or seek medically observed detox. Trust me, I know. <br /><br />StudlyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-44041277212398920962010-06-17T14:37:25.698-07:002010-06-17T14:37:25.698-07:00Wh-What? Off the booze this week? Say it ain'...Wh-What? Off the booze this week? Say it ain't so! Thank goodness the weekend is almost here, wouldn't want you to wither away to nothing!<br /><br />B to the...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-76801967468175783282010-06-17T13:57:22.683-07:002010-06-17T13:57:22.683-07:00I love that minimalist kitchen island, but what in...I love that minimalist kitchen island, but what in the good name of Jesus is going on in that bathroom?!? Saints alive!<br /><br />I agree with you, Mama: why would My Little Pony Parker and Ferris Bueller need to vacate their divine townhouse?Madam Pincehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14581788699758821238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-76225078237316347962010-06-17T12:46:40.473-07:002010-06-17T12:46:40.473-07:00This penthouse was just featured on HGTV's &qu...This penthouse was just featured on HGTV's "Selling New York" with some potential buyer foolishly jumping fully-clothed into the tub.Footienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-44275766768568365422010-06-17T11:53:10.575-07:002010-06-17T11:53:10.575-07:00I can see the SJP family would need the fourth flo...I can see the SJP family would need the fourth floor for the children, and nannies.<br /><br />I am struck by the similarities between the footprint here, and the footprint of 15 Spring Street. I thought it was the same building for a minute.Villagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08578209959445019807noreply@blogger.com