8 AWP Brooklyn Paper • www.BrooklynPaper.com • (718) 260-2500 February 22–28, 2019
In recent years, injury and even death, to pedestrians
in automobile-related accidents has increased
drastically due to increasing use of vehicles
for travel as well as the number of them on the
road at a single time. Add that to the foot traffic of
any street, major or small, especially in the City of
New York, and it is a recipe for disaster. In one year,
76,000 pedestrians were injured in vehicle-related
accidents, which means that roughly one pedestrian
was injured every 7 minutes.
Drivers of automobiles are often at fault for accidents
in which pedestrians are injured. Driver fault
examples include drinking or drug use, inattention
due to the use of cell phones or other devices, and
speeding. Other types of accidents where the driver
is at fault include not yielding to pedestrians while
turning, running a light or stop sign, failing to notice
a pedestrian, and driving on the sidewalk, all
causing injuries to pedestrians. Even pedestrians
who bear some negligence or fault for their accident
are usually entitled to a recovery, which will be reduced
by the pedestrian’s percentage of fault.
Although no-fault auto insurance coverage covers
some medical expenses and loss of wages, they
usually do not cover all the expenses involved for
medical care from some serious injuries suffered in
major accidents. When the statutory requirement
for serious injuries is met, an action can be brought
for compensation for pain and suffering suffered by
a pedestrian in an auto accident. No-fault benefits
usually cover up to $50,000 for medical expenses and
loss of wages. In addition to a recovery for pain and
suffering, medical expenses and loss of wages above
the basis of $50,000, no-fault limit can be secured as
well for victims who suffer a “serious injury.”
If you or a loved one were the victim of a pedestrian
automobile accident, you may be entitled to recover
damages in a lawsuit. You should contact an
attorney immediately to discuss your options.
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The home at 392 Stuyvesant
Urban View Realty
Ave. belongs to a
row of 10 limestone and
brownstone houses designed
by architect Axel
Hedman. The details of
the 1899 property make
it a showpiece of the Renaissance
Revival style.
Renaissance Revival showpiece
Stuyvesant Heights Historic District home asks $2.699M
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The lavish details of this
1899 Axel Hedman-designed
Brownstone in the Stuyvesant
Heights Historic District
make it one of Brooklyn’s
most coveted showpieces of
the Renaissance Revival.
The home, at 392 Stuyvesant
Ave., has numerous fretwork
screens; fluted, scrolled
and wreathed moldings; seven
original mantels, including
three working gas fireplaces;
a pier mirror with a
built-in bench in the foyer;
stained glass and a pier mirror
with classical columns and
griffin brackets in the parlor;
inlaid and herringbone
floors; a center hall stair;
an original passthrough and
built-in cabinets; and a window
seat behind an elaborate
fretwork screen in one of the
bedrooms.
The two-family is configured
as a floor-through apartment
over a triplex.
The drawback of the center
hall stair is that it tends to
squeeze out some of the living
space and make everything except
a garden-floor rental awkward.
A triplex over a gardenfloor
rental is often a current
solution to this predicament.
The passthroughs would
originally have been installed
with sinks, which are no longer
in evidence, but that can be
easily remedied, and the original
kitchen was most likely
in one of the rear rooms on
the garden floor. It is now a
somewhat meager strip in the
hallway, which a new owner
may want to redo, along with
the bathrooms, none of which
are pictured.
The facade is equally eclectic
and detailed, displaying
a mixture of brownstone on
the ground level, a dogleg
stoop and asymmetrical ornamentation
associated with
Queen Anne-style, and lines
of rough hewn stone characteristic
of the Romanesque
Revival; neighbors exhibit
white limestone popularized
by the 1893 Columbia Exposition
and associated with the
Renaissance Revival.
The home at 392 Stuyvesant
Ave. belongs to a row of
10 limestone and brownstone
houses designed by Hedman
and built by Walter F. Clayton,
who had already constructed
25 row houses around the corner
on Decatur Street, hiring
Magnus Dahlander, a sometime
partner of Hedman.
The designation report describes
some of the notable
characteristics of Hedman’s
design, such as the alternation
between rounded and polygonal
bays — this one is
polygonal — which extend
from one edge of the house to
the stoop, and the elaborately
decorated doorways.
The only title transfer record
for the property on ACRIS
is an estate sale in 1971,
and the property has been in
the same family ever since,
so it is really a rare gem of
a landmark building. Listed
as five bedrooms and three
baths by Walston Bobb-Semple
with Urban View Realty,
it will start showing on Sunday,
Feb. 24. It’s asking $2.699
million.
What do you think will
happen to it?
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