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Very true, there are also tons of Tudor style apartment buildings located across the Bronx. Bronx Park East/Pelham Parkway having one of the largest concentrations in the city. Did they ever designate that area a landmark district yet, I know it was in the talks? For the apartment buildings at least.
Seems like it is still in the works because they are nit picking over details of certain buildings as far as I know.Some landlords are fighting it too because they don't want their properties "designated."Stupid to not want that if you ask me.
Seems like it is still in the works because they are nit picking over details of certain buildings as far as I know.Some landlords are fighting it too because they don't want their properties "designated."Stupid to not want that if you ask me.
Some people are against it because its more costly and time consuming to renovate the buildings, i.e. can only use certain window treatment or color of paint.
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I take it that Forest Hills is landmarked? What streets? Only Tudors? Which types of construction?
When you said identical, I thought it was also in terms of larger SFHs and leafy, tree-lined roads and such instead of just Tudor-style buildings. Are there any neighborhoods in the Bronx that are a bit more identical? Agreed with you on the Fedders house there being a crime. Even some kind of odd modern construction would be better as a contrast, but that thing there just looks like a turd.
Didn't mean to offend but I tried to look at it from her point of view. I think Forest Hill is a nice neighborhood but a little too family oriented for my taste.
In fact that could explain the choice of "cheesy". Maybe the neighborhood screams family and affluence too much, not young and trendy.
Most families in FH live in the co-ops in the northern side of Queens Blvd. The residents who live in FHG are a minority who are trying to preserve/cling to a certain way of life dating back to the early 1900s when many parts of Queens were the homestead of the Long Island elite who owned or ran the agricultural properties in the east but traded the produce in Manhattan. That's the reason why you think it has a suburban feel, but the original intent wasn't supposed to be suburban at all (ie Levittown) since these developments pre-dated the era of suburban expansion.
Didn't mean to offend but I tried to look at it from her point of view. I think Forest Hill is a nice neighborhood but a little too family oriented for my taste.
In fact that could explain the choice of "cheesy". Maybe the neighborhood screams family and affluence too much, not young and trendy.
I also understand it's urbanity.
Exactly what I meant by subliminal exclusiveness. I have also noticed the open street fences on at least one of the primary thoroughfares, which I cannot currently recall.
Well, I get that it could be too family oriented for some, but I still can't understand why that element would make something "cheesy"? Strange choice of words if what she really meant "too family oriented."
Oh, wait. Did the woman who used the word "cheesy" see the McMansions in Forest Hills? Now those are cheesy.
Henna, she did not see the McMansions in Forest Hills but it's funny that you mention that because that is in fact what I responded back to her when she described the gardens as "cheesy." Now if she saw those monstrosities I would totally be on board with her description. My friend is from Woodstock (I've never been so I have no idea how her hometown colors her experiences) and I suspect like some of you have said that it's a mix of UWS snobiness along with the 'not urban but not suburban' feel.
Nice pics. #62 makes me think "Transylvania" though.
I thought pic #62 is kind creepy like insane asylum with dark torture chambers in the basement.
And pic #34 with the strange looking tree and shadowy wall have a feel of a haunted house too.
Yes...yes... probably just me reading too many crazy stories.
For the most part the other houses are beautiful and old in an elegant way. Thanks for all the
wonderful pics Nexis4Jersey. But I wonder if the Forest Hill Gardens people were freaking out
when you were in their neighborhood, because they might think of you as a burglar scouting
their houses and neighborhood.
I thought pic #62 is kind creepy like insane asylum with dark torture chambers in the basement.
And pic #34 with the strange looking tree and shadowy wall have a feel of a haunted house too.
Yes...yes... probably just me reading too many crazy stories.
For the most part the other houses are beautiful and old in an elegant way. Thanks for all the
wonderful pics Nexis4Jersey. But I wonder if the Forest Hill Gardens people were freaking out
when you were in their neighborhood, because they might think of you as a burglar scouting
their houses and neighborhood.
I never had a problem usually people are surprised that someone has taken interest in there neighborhood. I always seem to find myself chatting it up with one of the locals...
I love Forest Hill Gardens, but I've always been kinda scared to explore it on foot.
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