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Crown Heights’ historic Studebaker building, now a residential property slapped with over 250 city violations, is set for auction in April with a $2.95 million starting bid. The property, which sits on the corner of Bedford Avenue and Sterling Place, will go to the highest bidder between April 9-11, according to multiple auction websites. The building dons a historic circular “Studebaker” sign on white terra cotta façade and is 29,171 square feet. It has 27 residential units and one commercial unit. It was landmarked and remodeled in 2000 and now includes rent-stabilized units that bring in $28,773 per month, with two existing residential vacancies. But 1469 Bedford Ave. has also seen issues with city authorities in recent years. The building’s landlord, Alfred Thompson, landed on Public Advocate Jumaane Williams’ 2023 worst landlord watchlist, at which point the building had an average 243 violations open with the city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development. Heading into the auction, the property had 251 open violations with the department for issues ranging from mold to defective doors, city records show. The property also has a number of open Department of Buildings violations, one related to improper boiler room construction. But the Studebaker building’s new buyer will come out free and clear of any monetary liens associated with the property, according to the listing. A $250,000, four-story build Built in 1920 – the “height of the corporation’s prominence” – the Studebaker building is one of few showrooms remaining on what was once considered Brooklyn’s “automobile row,” according to the Landmarks Preservation Commission. The borough was, at the time, a hub for car ownership. Now, less than 40 percent of Crown Heights residents own cars, according to 2022 census data compiled by Spatial Equity NYC. Still containing in its original terra cotta, arches and a parapet, the building boasts neo-Gothic details designed by New York architects E. Post Tooker and Reginald Marsh, known for designing schools in upstate New York, Long Island and New Jersey. The massive building cost just $250,000 to construct at the time, according to a 1920 article in the Brooklyn Eagle. “It remains a notable example of automotive showroom/garage architecture and an excellent example of a commercial terra-cotta clad structure which served as a company icon,” the commission said in 2000. Historic Brooklyn building to be sold at auction with $3M starting bid PIX11.COM CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn (PIX11) – Crown Heights’ historic Studebaker building, now a residential property...

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my sister & brother-in-law are seeing Tony Orlando's farewell show tonight.

Dear Abby: I recently started planning my wedding. Half the friends I want as bridesmaids are very conservative. They think sex is sacred and should be talked about only discreetly, not joked about, mentioned on TV, etc. I used to hold similar views, but I no longer do. Neither do the other half of the girls I want as bridesmaids. My dream bachelorette party is the kind you see in movies, a group of girls going out on the town getting tipsy — maybe being a little stupid — nothing dangerous, with sexy games/favors and casually swapping sex tips and double entendres. That may not be possible with my straight-laced friends, whom I really like and would like to include. I pick up on others’ feelings easily, so I can’t ignore when someone around me is unhappy. I want all my girlfriends to enjoy the party, but two or three of them won’t appreciate the humor of drinking from a phallus-shaped straw. Should I split the guest list and have one prudish party and one sexy one? — Good/Bad Girl in the East Dear Girl: That’s an excellent idea! And we all know which one you are going to enjoy. that your conservative friends are probably sexual freaks who’ve been giving head and taking it up the ass for years so they can say they’re still virgins. Dear Abby: I recently hosted my husband’s birthday. It was a great party. I reserved for 85 people, including the DJ, his assistant, the party planner and her crew. On the day of the event, 20% of the guests who RSVP’d did not show up. One couple said their two daughters had a debut party that night. Another family said their son had an outing. Others had legitimate reasons, like being sick or the house catching fire. HOW MAGNANIMOUS OF YOU TO FIND THAT TO BE AN ACCEPTABLE EXCUSE! I gave my guests ample time to RSVP. I sent the save-the-date cards four months before, the invitation two months before and the deadline to RSVP two weeks before the event. I even extended the invitation to allow other adults and kids to come to the party. I was too generous. I think it’s rude for the families who RSVP for a certain number of people to dismissively not show up because of another event, not considering that each head count means additional cost and planning for the meal, seating chart, etc. How do I let them know I wish they would have told me ahead of time so I could have removed them and saved myself a few hundred dollars? Or should I even let them know? — Generous Host in Texas Dear Host: If I thought a lecture to these boors would be effective, I would tell you to go ahead and do what you have in mind. However, a more effective and less confrontational way to save yourself a future headache would be to simply omit them from your guest list. you have that kind of money to throw away on a birthday party, quit your bitchin’ and thank your lucky stars. Dear Carolyn: My son is a college graduate with a job as a bartender. I get embarrassed telling people what he does when they ask. Help me. — Embarrassed Embarrassed Proud Parent: “He’s a bartender.” Just say it, shoulders squared. Fake it till you feel it. It’s real work, and I’m glad and grateful for everyone who’s good at it. because after answering mail from people like you everyday, I often need a stiff one… and a drink, too! Half the people you tell will envy him, 100 percent won’t care as much as you do, the slim minority who judge him as beneath them are jerks — and anyone who stops a moment to think about it knows that a college degree isn’t (just) about getting a so-called professional job. It is (also) about learning how to think critically and how to be part of a diverse and interesting community and how to challenge oneself. All of these are available outside the college experience, obviously — plus people can get through college successfully while achieving zero mind-expansion — but mind-expansion is in fact the commonly accepted point of an education. Being embarrassed just tells people you don’t get this. Instead, be proud that your son did the work, and be proud that he’s finding his own way in the world. I hope you take this reader’s thoughts to heart: · Please rethink this attitude. I guarantee your son is picking up on it and putting unnecessary pressure on himself to “succeed” by your terms. I had parents like that, where I was instilled to believe that things such as waiting tables and bartending were beneath me, so when I graduated, I had so. much. anxiety. that I didn’t have a “real job.” Instead of doing something sensible and waiting tables or doing odd jobs until I figured it out, I ended up applying to graduate school for a master’s degree I didn’t care about and was completely unprepared for. I ended up $50,000 in debt because I grew up in a household that didn’t respect work that wasn’t a 9-to-5. Please don’t do this to your children. I implore you not to waste this opportunity to play the victim… tell people your ungrateful son is rebelling against having a snob for a parent by doing work that makes him happy, rather than spending his life doing something that doesn’t, but allows you to brag about him. I have no doubt they will try to comfort you in your time of tragedy.

Real estate agent accidentally burns down multimillion-dollar property ahead of open house A real estate agent accidentally burned a multimillion-dollar property to the ground while preparing for an open house, with her employer ordered to pay more than $555,161 in damages. Australian real estate agent Julie Bundock was preparing for an open house at a four-bedroom home on Sydney’s northern beaches when she noticed the current renters of the house had left some bedding on the deck to dry. She removed the sheets and threw them in a downstairs room onto a shelf below a light, which she then switched on. About 20 minutes later a major fire broke out in the house on Riverview Road in Avalon Beach, believed to be caused by the shelf and bedding heating up and catching fire due to the wall-mounted light. The house — estimated to be worth around $2 million — along with all of its contents, was destroyed. The owner of the property, Peter Alan Bush, who was preparing to sell the property, took the matter to court; as did the four renters of the property who had their belongings destroyed in the fire. Bush told the court that after the fire, Bundock said words to the effect of: “Oh my God Pete, I think I have burnt down your house,” he claimed she said in the presence of others, including his de facto partner Lynne Emanuel. Chief Judge in Equity Justice David Hammerschlag handed down his Judgment on Tuesday in the Supreme Court, ruling that Bundock “actively created the risk of fire and the consequent harm.” Judge Hammerschlag ordered Bundock’s employer, Domain Residential Northern Beaches, to pay Bush $483,736 for the loss of his house and a combined $79,339 to the four renters.

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Ailing 750-pound alligator seized from NY home after gentle giant would swim with kids “I took care of him better than most people take care of their kids.”

In Flatbush, plans to restore art deco Sears building move forward Art deco towers inscribed with the name “Sears Roebuck and Co.” in big bold letters at their apex are common sights throughout the U.S. The city of Hackensack, New Jersey, has one; and so does Boyle Heights, Los Angeles; Midtown Minneapolis; and many others. These buildings stand as harbingers of a bygone era before the shopping mall, when American consumers wined-and-dined along Main Street, not off of the side of highways. Today, many of these handsome buildings stand empty thanks to shifts in consumer and transportation patterns, and building owners struggle to find anchor tenants. What should we do with them? In Brooklyn’s Flatbush neighborhood, a New York developer has plans to renovate a landmarked Sears Roebuck building that’s been vacant for years, not far from the iconic Kings Theater (1929). Clipper Equity, a real estate group led by David Bistricher, recently secured $24 million to finance the preservation of Flatbush’s Sears building, completed in 1932. Flatbush’s Sears building sits on the corner of Bedford Avenue and Beverly Road. Like many of its counterparts around the country, the Flatbush tower was designed by Nimmons, Carr & Wright—a Chicago firm. Alton L. Craft of New York City was the local architect. When the building opened in 1932, it was such a grand affair, Eleanor Roosevelt gave opening remarks to christen the structure, and then purchased “a pair of baby booties” according to The Brooklyn Eagle. In 1940, four new bays along Beverly Road were added to the 100-foot tower, along with additional square footage in the rear. In 2012, Flatbush’s Sears tower was designated as a protected city landmark. Flash forward to 2018: That year, Sears filed for bankruptcy, and the flagship department store company had a fire sale on all of its goods inside the building. Signs reading EVERYTHING MUST GO! quickly populated the ground level. Transformco, a hedge fund, subsequently bought Sears’s assets for $5.2 billion. This gave the hedge fund all 700 properties in Sears’s portfolio, including the Flatbush property. Two years later, COVID-19 struck, and the parking lot outside the Sears building was converted into a makeshift vaccination center. Then in 2021, the Brooklyn building closed its doors to customers, marking the closure of the chain’s last brick-and-mortar retail outpost in New York City. Transformco then announced its plans to work with Clipper Equity to convert the building into housing and commercial space. With this recent $24 million acquisition, Clipper Equity wants to renovate all four floors of the Flatbush tower. Their goal is to lease the renewed interiors to office and/or grocery store tenants. Eventually, Clipper Equity hopes to redevelop the entire block surrounding the Sears tower through the ground-up construction of 900 residential units on the block and lot. Clipper Equity plans to restore Flatbush’s Sears Roebuck & Co. building WWW.ARCHPAPER.COM Developer Clipper Equity plans to restore the art deco Sears Roebuck & Co. building located in Flatbush...

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Ex-NYC weatherman fired in nude photo scandal does his own forecasts from home during ‘hard reset’

Was Liza already in rehab?

one worry I will never have

why would one of The Monkees have a locker at the bottom of the sea?