Those Townhouses on Underhill and Dean

The only thing I ever heard was that they were built on top of a scandal. The land was actually a failed housing development from the 1970's or thereabouts. There was some scandal that occured, not sure what. This is what I heard. Anyone know more?

I happen to like the ones across the street better

No Kevin I was making a joke because I live across the street (on Underhill) from those houses :

And boy have I stumbled from there

LOL no that is my uncle - he really gets a kick out of making it move when you least expect it

I'm the green house a few doors down I was hoping to meet you last night too! I know we are practially next door neighbors.

You definately do

Subject: townhouses on underhill and dean

As someone said for years the lot was just a big, abandoned construction site. I think at least since the early 80's just half-built foundations I've got mixed feelings about those townhouses--butt-ugly and shabby sure. More appropriate in some backwater section of Queens or Staten Island--definately. (Sorry Queens and S.I.) But...

Every time I'm walking my dog at night to the bodega across the street to get some unhealthy munchies, my heart goes in my throat when I look across the street. Before that crap went up, when you'ld go to the bullet-proof, lazy-susan cube to get your Little Debbie's and 40 or whatever, and you looked towards Manhattan over that seeemingly bombed-out lot, you got the most uncanny view of the WTC towers. It was the abandoned construction site, and bang!, the Towers seen all the way from their bases, and pretty much no other building or anything else to give you scale. And to me, it was like the corridor effect; there was nothing to compare them to, so I would get the weird cognitive dissonant perception that they were close and not so big. With their twinkling lights, they seemed almost like toys. It was especially eerie on a cold, clear winter night, with the faint stars all around.

Those townhouses ain't pretty, but their shells were up by the time the Towers went down. They spared me looking across that lot at that new view of nothing. Or smoke. I just went through a break-up. It's also the change of season. Don't bother psychoanalyzing me--I'll do it. I should be writing and thinking about buckets of puppies and rainbows. Alas.

Many of them are occupied, and they look fine from the outside. Why make anyone feel bad about where they live? I saw a birthday party being held about a week ago behind one of them. Looked like a garage door was open, and an extended family of 30 or so was having a good time. Nothing wrong with that.

Will wrote: Hey- folks that live near Tavern on Dean- how is subway access over there? Just curious.

The C is only a few blocks north...the 2/3 is only a few blocks west...and the Q is only a little further from the 2/3.