While traveling down Flushing Ave recently, I noticed people entering and exiting the house. I made a mental note to check to see if any plans had been filed. I figured it was being prepped for demolition, but that's not the case.
The plans are actually for: "INTERIOR RENOVATION, NEW EXTERIOR STUCCO, NEW WINDOWS IN EXISTING OPENINGS, AS PER PLANS. NO CHANGE TO USE, EGRESS OR OCCUPANCY." Schedule B details plumbing work.
I can't wait to see the finished product.
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The way it should be, restoring some of these once great homes as opposed to tearing them down to put up cheap, ugly third world dreck and then filling them up with dreck and degrading a neighborhood.
Covering it with stucco is hardly "restoring" it. Yes, better than some shitty three family mess to house twelve families, but stucco?
be wary of "stucco"
Its 99% chance going to be crap EIFS Styrofoam with cheap details (like fake coining and lintels)
It should be 6 over 1 windows, fan pane door glass with hex or square colored pebble shingle --like houses originally had up until the late 60s (when crap PVC came out) The new stuff lasts 50 years and isn't flammable.
That's how I would restore it and it would be a real gem.
Examples:
http://www.p-wholesale.com/cn-pro/21/821to2/colorful-fiber-glass-asphalt-shingle-mosaic-c108-754415.html
Euro-Stucco may work in Greece/Italy but wont last 1 winter in New York and your "f_cked" if some punk tags graffiti on it.
Yayy for no knock down of this beauty! Wish they were restoring it with more original materials but Im happy this house is staying in the neighborhood!
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