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Party hopping
Boats banished from S’Bay
welcome at city piers in
Sunset Park, other nabes
Charming row house in Windsor Terrace
An ‘artistic home’ full of impressive original details asks $1.499M
Community News Group / Caroline Spivack
When you buy a product, the expectation
is that it should perform in the way it was
intended to but that is not always the case.
When damage or injury is caused as the
result of the use of a defective product, the
law in New York recognizes that those who
manufacture and/or distribute the defective
product, as well as those who sell it, may be
held responsible for damages for the injuries
which result.
Consider the case of the young teenager
who while using a hair dryer in her home,
sustained severe third degree burns to her
hands when the product burst into f lames.
Her parents had the foresight to consult our
office shortly thereafter. Upon consulting
an expert who inspected the hair dryer, he
advised that the product’s wiring and/or
loose electrical connections allowed it to
overheat and catch on fire. We sued the manufacturer,
as well as the neighborhood store
where the hair dryer had been purchased,
claiming that this product was defective as
it was improperly or poorly designed, that
there was a mistake in its manufacture or
assembly, and/or the manufacturer or distributor
placed the product into the marketplace
without adequate warnings. Based
upon our expert’s opinion, we were successful
in achieving a favorable outcome for our
client.
If you find yourself in a similar situation,
the first thing to do is secure and safeguard
the defective product. In situations where
the injury occurs outside your home, for example,
in the workplace, it is particularly
important to be vigilant and contact an attorney
promptly. A separate court proceeding
may need to be commenced, as soon as
possible, to compel preservation of the product
and to direct the person, or entity, in possession
or control of the product, to grant access
so it can be inspected and tested before
it is destroyed, altered or disposed of.
If you believe that you or a loved one
have been injured by any defective product,
whether a piece of heavy machinery or
a seemingly harmless household item, you
should consult an attorney. A timely phone
call could be very important to protect your
rights.
Now on
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Stephen Zacks
Brownstoner
This real charmer in Windsor
Terrace belongs to a row
of circa-1910, two-story brick
homes with front porches and
fanciful toppers. Inside are impressive
original details like
parquet floors with elaborate
borders, stained-glass windows,
a pier mirror with fluted
columns and foliate details,
and neo-Classical columns between
the two parlors.
The dining room has a
coffered ceiling and vintage
embossed wall covering
(known as Anaglypta or
Lincrusta) topped by a bracketed
plate rail. The kitchen,
built as a ground-level extension
with laundry room below,
has a 1940s stove, an original
built-in dish cupboard, and a
tin ceiling. Just outside it is
a powder room and another
built-in.
Upstairs among the three
bedrooms and shared bathroom,
the master bedroom
has a window seat with storage
in the street-facing, threesided
window bay, and a wall
of original built-in closets with
overhead compartments.
The single-family house, at
235 E. Fourth St., was developed
in 1909–10 by the Homeseekers
Improvement Co., according
to historic maps and
ads from the time touting the
“dining room in Mission, with
beam ceilings, plate shelf, and
French doors,” along with a
“piazza” and electric lights
“not usually found in houses
at the price we are asking.” The
row of houses built on the street
originally possessed a mix of
Tudor, Dutch, neo-Classical,
and other styles of front gables
and were duly described
as “artistic homes.” The interior
of this one is a mix: Colonial
Revival parlors and Arts
and Crafts-Mission in the dining
room.
This company wasn’t the
only one building these “artistic
homes” during the time:
There’s a very similar row
in Gravesend by a different
builder (to name just one). A
fun article about the houses under
construction on E. Fourth
Street has the builder bragging,
Ian Schrager-like, that
they are better quality than
those of similar design by other
builders. It describes some of
the interior details, including
the “Dutch” landscape painted
above the plate rail in the dining
room — nostalgic, Dutchinspired
design was popular
in this period.
The 1940 tax photo shows
that the front porch was glassed
in at some point, but now it is
back to its original look. You
can also see the mix of gable
front styles in the row.
Asking $1.499 million, it’s
listed by Lisa Garcia and Cindy
Fazio for Compass.
Is it a good price for all the
home’s charms?
The home at 235 E. Fourth St. belongs to a row
of circa-1910, two-story brick homes. The house’s
dreamy parlor gets plenty of natural light.
Compass
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Brooklyn Paper
They’re offering safe harbors.
The city will help owners
of controversial party boats
move their vessels to other municipal
docks after officials
banned the ships from operating
out of Sheepshead Bay’s
Emmons Avenue pier.
Leaders of the Economic
Development Corporation
— whose so-called Dock
NYC program oversees five
borough piers, and others in
Manhattan and Staten Island
— will assist captains of the
controversial boats with finding
alternate ports to set sail
from, according to a mayoral
spokeswoman, who said the
boats will only be able to dock
at the Emmons Avenue pier
under a new ban that prohibits
the vessels from picking
up and dropping off revelers
there, Assemblyman Steven
Cymbrowitz (D–Sheepshead
Bay) announced on Feb. 19 .
The exact list of city piers
the party cruises can run from,
however, is undecided, according
to reps for the mayor, the
Economic Development Corporation,
and the Department
of Parks and Recreation.
But one location is the
economic-agency-operated
marina at Brooklyn Army
Terminal, according to a
spokeswoman for Mill Basin
state Sen. Roxanne Persaud,
whose constituents last
year protested a mayoral proposal
to dock the boats in their
neighborhood .
“Party boats, according to
City Hall, will be relocated
from Sheepshead Bay to the
Brooklyn Army Terminal,”
said Matthew D’Onofrio.
Mayoral spokeswoman
Meyer confirmed that the Sunset
Park terminal, where other
booze boats already operate ,
is among the viable locations
for the vessels banished from
Sheepshead Bay.
“We will work with boat
owners if they want to move,
and Brooklyn Army Terminal
is one of the options,”
she said.
Officials ruled out using
three of the four other economic
agency-operated piers
in Brooklyn, claiming two —
the Bayview Marina at 2825
Flatbush Ave., and the Mill
Basin Wharf at 2731 Flatbush
Ave. — do not have the required
infrastructure for party
boats, according to Meyer.
And the third, the South
Brooklyn Marine Terminal in
Sunset Park, is only for commercial
and industrial use,
according to Economic Development
Corporation spokeswoman
Stephanie Báez.
The fifth agency-owned
dock, at a landing area within
the Atlantic Basin off the coast
of Red Hook, features similar
infrastructure and amenities
as Brooklyn Army
Terminal, but Báez could
not confirm by press time
whether it would also welcome
the party boats.
The city-operated Brooklyn Army Terminal is among the piers that officials will
open to party boats recently banished from Sheepshead Bay’s pier.
ships can also dock at privately
owned berths.
“We will work to accommodate
pick-ups at appropriate
Dock NYC locations as capacity
allows. Or, they can relocate
to privately owned marinas,”
said Jane Meyer.
Starting May 1, the booze
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