OKay, so after fixing the top floor and the parlor floor apartment, we are looking to work on our curb appeal. The stair need work this is not to say that this will make the front look better, it needs a little more than that. The front facade of the building was mistreated by the fashions of the day, painting and astro turf helped to destroy the stone face. There is water that seeps through cracks in the stair that I had patched before I went to Iraq. There had been work done to the stairs but it was patch work and can only hold for a while. So far we have had the original banister rails removed but kept the banister heads.
So here we are have contractors come by and giving us estimates of work that claim they can do, but after reading up and asking too many questions, I have come to the realization that they all lie. My next door neighbor is a master bricklayer, and we talked about what was needed to be done to my stairs and he told me to just replace the stairs and the kickers. After some thought I think that that will be the result of all this effort.
I still keep my dream of one day finishing my apartment and being done with all the work, but I look down the block and see neighbors doing the same thing, fixing up a brownstone...
Bedstuy a work in progress, don't get me wrong I like seeing my hood transform into a place to be proud of, the new hip place. But it is a lot of work
