{"id":240,"date":"2007-05-14T09:34:52","date_gmt":"2007-05-14T09:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/2007\/05\/14\/heights-houses\/"},"modified":"2007-05-14T09:34:52","modified_gmt":"2007-05-14T09:34:52","slug":"heights-houses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/2007\/05\/14\/heights-houses\/","title":{"rendered":"Heights Houses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to a <a href=\"http:\/\/brooklynheightsblog.com\/archives\/1195\" title=\"Brooklyn Heights Blog\">tip from the Brooklyn Heights Blog<\/a>, the wtb and I enjoyed the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynheightsassociation.org\/housetour\/housetour.htm\" title=\"Brooklyn Heights Association's Annual House Tour\">Brooklyn Heights Association&#39;s Annual House Tour<\/a>. As seen in today&#39;s pic, the former haunted house at 135 Joralemon Street was a popular stop. The neighborhood got to watch as this Victorian was gut renovated over the last year and folks were eager to get inside. It was nice, but a little small for the current $6M asking price a tipster told me.  <\/p>\n<p>There were four other houses on the bill and each was more  lavish than the previous. I liked a very modern, edgy townhouse on Clinton best. The wtb liked them all. Snooping through other people&#39;s homes is like p0rn to her. <\/p>\n<p>Here are just a few numbers on the day:  <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Homes: 5 <\/li>\n<li>Gardens: 5 <\/li>\n<li>Garages: 0 <\/li>\n<li>Plasma TVs: 9 <\/li>\n<li>Baby grands: 3 <\/li>\n<li>Norman Mailer (famous Heights author) Books Prominently Displayed: 4 <\/li>\n<li>Macs: 3 <\/li>\n<li>PCs: 2 <\/li>\n<li>X-Box 360: 1 <\/li>\n<li>Japanese Print Art: 7 pieces over 2 houses <\/li>\n<li>Stove Burners: 34 <\/li>\n<li>Harmony 880 Universal Remotes: 0  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Association had a plenty of friendly volunteer acting as traffic cops as dozens and dozens of visitor streamed single-file through the homes. It was very interesting and  also enlightening. There are some really rich people in this world. I think the best thing to do is take dead aim on the rich boys. Get them in the crosshairs and Take.  Them. Down. Or maybe invest in real estate.  <\/p>\n<p>I&#39;d be into class warfare if I wasn&#39;t too busy loving my Harmony 880 Universal Remote.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to a <a href=\"http:\/\/brooklynheightsblog.com\/archives\/1195\" title=\"Brooklyn Heights Blog\">tip from the Brooklyn Heights Blog<\/a>, the wtb and I enjoyed the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynheightsassociation.org\/housetour\/housetour.htm\" title=\"Brooklyn Heights Association's Annual House Tour\">Brooklyn Heights Association&#39;s Annual House Tour<\/a>. As seen in today&#39;s pic, the former haunted house at 135 Joralemon Street was a popular stop. The neighborhood got to watch as this Victorian was gut renovated over the last year and folks were eager to get inside. It was nice, but a little small for the current $6M asking price a tipster told me.  <\/p>\n<p>There were four other houses on the bill and each was more  lavish than the previous. I liked a very modern, edgy townhouse on Clinton best. The wtb liked them all. Snooping through other people&#39;s homes is like p0rn to her. <\/p>\n<p>Here are just a few numbers on the day:  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}