This Old House -- Brooklyn?

A neighbor told me he spotted the guys from the PBS show "This Old House" on Sterling between Washington & Underhill last week.

I poked around online, and it looks like TOH is doing a NYC edition this year:

http://www.thisoldhouse.com/toh/info/0,,20205059,00.html

Anyone else spot Norm Abrams in PH recently?

Subject: Re: This Old House -- Brooklyn?

sterling2000 wrote: A neighbor told me he spotted the guys from the PBS show "This Old House" on Sterling between Washington & Underhill last week.

I poked around online, and it looks like TOH is doing a NYC edition this year:

http://www.thisoldhouse.com/toh/info/0,,20205059,00.html

Anyone else spot Norm Abrams in PH recently?

NO WAY!!! I love TOH!

SWEET! My wife was stoked that she was added as a "friend" to Norm on MySpace/FaceBook/Whatever, now she's going to be stalking.

Oh I'm excited!

How sad. I'm way more excited about This Old House in Brooklyn than I was about The Real World.

I guess this proves I really am no longer young....


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very cool. Combined with "Under Construction" on DIY Brooklyn, is becoming the renovation capital

So excited!! I wonder how long production takes on that show. I don't want to wait a year /

Well folks...this is exciting but let's wait to confirm.

All I've got now is a call for entries from this summer and a second-hand sighting from last week. It could be they are still considering finalists, etc. I can't find any press announcements online verifying a final site pick.

I was hoping someone else might have some additional info...

nomad wrote: Oh I'm excited!

How sad. I'm way more excited about This Old House in Brooklyn than I was about The Real World.

I guess this proves I really am no longer young....


:roll:

True enough, but not to old to get one big collective Boner! I'm thinkin' HARD!

I'll bet there's a few more criteria than have been published. They'll probably do a search of the Housing Court records to make sure that the home owner/s didn't evict rent stabilized tenants for owner occupation. That'll cut the numbers in Brooklyn down substantially.

Wicked pissah! We should be writing this thread in a mwock Bah-stin accent in Naahm's ah-nah!

I live near the house they're working on (on Sterling) and the handyman who works on my landlord's place asked -- and they confirmed -- that they were in fact a crew from This Old House. Considering how long it will probably take to complete the renovation, I think we can all expect to see them again over the next 6 months or so.

Which house is it??? I love Norm!

420 Sterling, according to this. http://onlytheblogknowsbrooklyn.typepad.com/only_the_blog_knows_brook/2008/10/this-old-house.html

I think they should have a blooper edition showing all the things that can and often do go wrong. :shock:

It's too bad Brownstoner and OTBKB don't give props to DH for getting on the story first...

btw...I knew the address from the get-go (I am acquainted with the owner), but decided to leave a bit of mystery to it...

Should be fun to watch develop.....maybe we can all be invited to their "after party"....