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July 21, 2007
Terence Taylor, Writer, Producer, Horror Author
Gothamist
The story of one Brooklyn TV writer/author's strangest experience in New York:
The strangest? That's hard, it's a strange town. In 1981 I was looking for a loft in Brooklyn with a partner, and we leased a large space in a building off Flatbush between Bergen and Dean. We struggled for months to carve a home out of a raw concrete space and failed. The relationship broke up, but not before we found two spaces for sale in a building in Gowanus, where I live now. A few years ago, as the horror that is the Atlantic Yards project began to rear its head, I read an article in a local paper that listed buildings being taken over by abuse of eminent domain. I realized that the building I would have been living in was one of them. At the time, leaving it seemed terrible, but in the long run, losing that space was probably the best thing that could have happened to me. since it got me to buy something else. I feel for the current tenants.Only in New York. You never know if something that happens to you is good or bad for years.
Posted by amy at July 21, 2007 8:56 AM