![]() ![]() Residents have predicted that an influx of wealthier residents (half of the 1,000 apartments will be market rate) will drive affordable amenities out of their neighborhoods, and possibly drive NYCHA tenants out altogether.Ĭritics and many NYCHA residents are also deeply troubled by the idea of turning to private developers to save a public asset, especially under a Trump administration that heavily favors privatization. ![]() The privatization approach has been met with pushback from housing advocates and NYCHA residents at some of the first sites slotted for development: parking lots at Wyckoff Gardens in Boerum Hill and a playground at Holmes Towers on the Upper East Side. "With so much uncertainty from Washington, the debate on whether or not to build on public housing land as a revenue source should be over," Olatoye testified during a NYCHA budget hearing. Historic New England.In the face of at least $35 million in federal funding cuts for 2017-what Bronx Council Member Ritchie Torres described Monday as a "financial death spiral"-New York City Housing Authority Chair Shola Olatoye insisted that NYCHA now has no choice but to fully embrace NextGeneration Neighborhoods: a controversial plan launched in 2015 that entails selling off chunks of NYCHA land to private developers in order to put a dent in the authority's multi-billion deficits. Roseland Cottage, Woodstock, Connecticut, 1846. Both are assertively Gothic Revival structures–“Gothic” and pink are two descriptive terms which are seldom linked together, but in these two cases we have notable exceptions! One is the Justin Morrill homestead in Strafford, Vermont, which I’ve already featured in a post, and the other is the Roseland Cottage in Woodstock, Connecticut, which is owned and operated by Historic New England. ![]() These are all great houses, but I must admit that my two favorite pink houses are not in Salem. I was losing the light by this time, as you can see. And way down the road, almost on the Marblehead line, is a “Scooby Doo” eclectic Victorian overlooking Salem Harbor dressed in faded pink. On a side street Lafayette, there’s a lovely late 19th century pink house, with an adjacent three-car garage, also in pink. Some survived, and Colonial Revival residences replaced those that did not: one has a conspicuous pink and light gray color scheme that you cannot fail to notice. There was a full spectrum of pink here, from shocking Schiaparelli to the very pale color of the Gothic Revival cottage overlooking Juniper Point Beach.īack in town, I turned left and walked down Lafayette Street, which was a grand boulevard of painted ladies before the great Salem Fire of 1914. All of these houses have been transformed into year-round residences, and it’s a colorful neighborhood with few preservation encumbrances. ![]() Salem Willows is a late Victorian park with an adjacent residential neighborhood of structures that were built as seasonal cottages in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. I kept walking east: downtown was full of tourists and motorcycles, the weather was beautiful, and I knew that I’d find some pink house in the Willows. While colonial houses can look lovely in pink, this custom seems to apply more to Charleston and Savannah than it does to New England: pink is just not a Puritan color! So most of Salem’s pink houses are Victorians, with the exception of a very bright Greek Revival on Winter Street just off the Common, and a little Georgian house in dusty salmon pink right off Derby Street.Īnd on the other side of Derby Street, overlooking Derby Wharf, the Friendship, and the Custom House, a pink triple-decker, another iconic New England architectural style. Pink houses, large and small, can be found all over Salem but primarily in the outlying neighborhoods away from the center historic districts. Black and orange are the predominant colors of the season but I was looking for pink this weekend. ![]()
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