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Hillary stortor
2009 like many fierce battles
Extension of the lawn (
Think of parts of Belfast)
The area next to the laundry room at 755 West End Avenue is very inconspicuous.
Although the window is small, it remains the focus of the territorial dispute between the two sides
Residents of Op last year
The problem is the game room.
The young family in the building wants 500-square-
Occasionally used as an underground space in the playroom to make it more attractive for children.
A fitness team objected that the room should be filled with fitness bikes and weight lifting equipment, which is not only good for people with children, but also for every adult.
Then a storage contingent stepped in.
"One of my neighbors insisted --
‘Get rid of it!
"It's a waste of money and takes up the storage space we need," said board member Robert Hanren . ".
The playroom camp ended up winning the ad, but it was not easy.
"This requires a lot of organization and the way Obama is phrased," said Maggi Rand, a board member who led the game room restoration work.
There are new lights and floors in the room, toy houses, tricycles, building blocks, train tables, basketball stands and blackboard walls.
Advertising fall is the political season for playrooms and playrooms.
With the arrival of cold weather
And the corresponding desire to find some convenient way for the children to leave the apartment
The focus of a particular crowd turns to the coveted dedicated public space.
But even if the booster of the playroom is successful, happy colors, Elmos and choo-
Choos often believes in an unstable colleague.
The existence between those who benefit from space and those who do not.
In an apartment building in the Upper East Side, some users of the small gym found that the nearby children's playroom was too close and uncomfortable.
"They screamed," a resident complained, hoping to remain anonymous due to the harmony within the building.
She said that once she found out that a child left the playroom without cleaning, she said, "You go back first before I call your father.
Put those things away.
"Even in those games rooms, politics becomes sensitive.
Two members of the Upper West Side playroom Committee made a sound on whether to spend the tight budget on plastic toys instead of wooden ones.
Then there is the question of who is allowed into this space.
The playroom became more and more popular in the 1990 s as families with children had a growing share of the Manhattan real estate market.
While many old buildings still oppose handing over scarce public space to young people, most developers now consider the children's playroom to be the standard feature of the new building.
Speaking of 350 East 79 Street, Gary Jacobs, executive vice president of Glenwood Management, said: "We built our first children's playroom in Lucerne in 1991 . ".
"It was amazing, we started to remodel some of the previous buildings with playrooms.
Today, Glenwood, builder
The owners of many luxury rental apartment buildings in Manhattan, and almost all buildings have playrooms.
This year's advertising development has brought the game room to a new level.
Extell Development recently opened Rushmore in Riverside Avenue and No. 64, as well as Lucida in Lexington and No. 85, a playroom designed by upscale children's gym operator Kidville.
"They really imitate our integrity.
The size of the gym, "said Andy Stanzler, chief executive of Kidville.
Built at 1950 East 66 Street, Manhattan tower added its first playroom this fall as part of a "repositioning asset" that turned assets into a family --
Friendly building, said Brian Fallon, a partner of O'Connor Capital Partners, the owner and developer of the apartment.
O'Connor Capital hired Roto studio, a designer at the Children's Museum in Manhattan, to make a whimsical room with an interactive spacecraft and a talking big giraffe, tell the children standing under it how tall they are.
There is a magnetic jigsaw Wall, a pile of soft cushions, and a very rare restroom with a table decorated with jungle animal murals.
According to Mr.
Fallon: It's about $300 per square foot, which is $300,000.
Glenwood is located at Barclays House in TriBeCa with a beach-themed playroom that includes murals from New York Harbor, Brooklyn Bridge and Coney Island.
The children climbed onto the replica of the South Street Harbor pier and a large colorful boat.
In Battery Park City, the green building Visionaire, developed by the Albanese Organization, has a playroom consisting of sustainable materials and renewable resources, including cork walls, bamboo molds and recycled tire rubber floors.
It has a $10,000 sound system, and the most recent afternoon it went 5-and-under set.
Toys are limited to toys made by environmental protection manufacturing methods.
And a 12-foot-
The long salt water aquarium has colorful fish such as blue hippo pond fish and Australian black dragon fish.
Russell Albanese, president of the Albanese Organization, said the playroom was on the floor of the hall, partly to introduce natural light.
But, he said, "a little off" from the central area, "so you didn't go through the stroller in other residential areas.
"The idea that a building will spend money and space on things that all residents can't use is not always good, advertising says.
Basement at West End Avenue co-
The Op building has a room with a rocking horse, a playroom, a wooden train, a small piano, swollen clouds on the ceiling, and padding on the floor.
But, officially, this is not a playroom.
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The sign next to the door says this is community room 801 West End Avenue.
Although people over the age of 10 are unlikely (
Or more likely, 6)
There is any interest in gathering in this space, and the semantic difference is essential to win the approval and financing of the partner company
Decorate the op board of the room, the room has been empty for several years.
Of course, approval does not happen without a lot of discussion about who should pay, which is a hot topicbutton issue.
Much of the 755 west end debate comes down to whether families who want a room should fund their own maintenance.
This is the system of 180 Riverside Avenue, a handsome pre-war colleague.
The Op has one of the most attractive pre-war playrooms (
Although it is in a basement with no windows, it has a huge slide and a trapeze).
Families pay $50 a year to use it;
Residents who want to use it to visit their grandchildren pay $25.
But at 755 west end, there is no reason for the supporters of the playroom to think that maintenance should not come from construction funds.
A heated debate followed.
Should parents clean the toys themselves?
Should the cleaning service come in? (
This involves insurance issues. )
Finally, an agreement was reached: the Porter of the building will thoroughly clean the toy with Clorox once a month, and his additional work will be paid from the budget of the building.
The monthly cost is about the cost of an entry.
Thomas of the Tank Engine train group.
There are other problems with toys.
Sometimes the playroom becomes a dump for old toys that people no longer want.
Feelings can be hurt if the toy is rejected.
So in Colombia, after a big one
War apartment building on West 96 Street, famous for its family
The facilities are friendly and there are no used toys.
"You have to take control of what is going on," said Doug Miller, chairman of the public area committee of the building.
Colombia, which is renovating its playroom, is also debating whether video monitors are allowed to show movies on the night of building films.
Needless to say, there are objections.
"People don't want their children to watch TV in the game room . "Milles said.
Some of the least friendly politics has to do with who can use the playroom
Especially how many friends a child can invite from outside the building.
All of this often comes down to the tension between stops --at-
Mom and nanny.
On the chat board on the website UrbanBaby.
One mother said she had barely used her building playroom because she was "bored and even a little annoyed with the nanny inside.
She went on to complain that the nanny of her building brought too many friends and they charged as guests.
Another poster inserted "agree with the nanny ". Ours was a zoo.
Another suggestion, "If you do rent or buy in a building with a playroom, please make sure you specify the procedures of the building with respect to the guests using the playroom and the implementation of those procedures.
"At 755 West End Avenue, the storage team is now pleased to have redecorated an old, chaotic storage space with neat new lockers.
But the gym camp still pays attention to the playroom, which has been added to the upgrade on condition that their day may come if it is not popular. Ms.
Rand, head of the playroom recovery committee, acknowledged: "If the room is not used at some point as we envisioned, we can consider other options.
An advertisement for a wine cellar?
The price of the playmoney apartment building playroom can range from several thousand dollars to some apartments.
According to the Albanese Organization that developed the building, the cost of the Visionaire playroom in Battery Park City is about $210,000.
The bill includes $60,000 in furniture, $55,000 in carpentry and custom wood products, and $50,000 in salt water aquarium.
Although it sounds steep, the total cost is nearly $100,000 less than the cost of the new playroom in Manhattan, Upper East Side.
Among them, the service cost of a top hotel is about $300,000.
Notch design and customizationManufacturing structure.
Really, though, all you need is a room and some toys.
At 755 West End Avenue, the overhaul of the basement playroom cost less than $3,000.
The money is spent on floors, lighting, toys, air purifiers, and special paint that provide a blackboard surface to a wall.
The floor can be big. ticket item.
For the sake of safety, the basic carpet is not enough.
Pad materials are usually required for floors-
Cushion the effect of tumbling toddlers and crawling babies better.
Doug Mills said Colombia on West 96 Street spent between $10,000 and $12,000 on the renovation of the playroom to buy padded floors, with a total amount of probably $15,000 to $25,000, chairman of the public area committee of the building.
Some buildings choose to hire architects or interior designers.
The cost of these professionals can be easily calculated to five figures.
Aesthetic details can make a room happier, but it may add thousands more on the label.
For example, Glenwood Management recently commissioned murals for two playrooms for $4,000 each.
A version of this article was printed on the RE1 page of the National edition on October 4, 2009 with the title: Ruckus Room.
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