Welcome to Saturday Morning Home Repair Blogging. This is a weekly series, now in its fourth year, where we discuss how to keep your home standing and comfortable. I'm Bronx59, your guest host this week, writing in the spirit of the adage that says that you should write about what you know.
Not all of us grew up in the picket fence and green lawn suburbs. For some, it was a Midwestern farm, for others, the open range of the Mountain West. Still others, on DKos and elsewhere, have grown up on farms and in cities around the world.
For me, it was a 1920's vintage, five story brick Bronx apartment house. They are all over Queens, the Bronx, Brooklyn, and upper Manhattan. The design found its way to a few places in southern Westchester and Northern New Jersey as well. They usually have 40 to 80 or 100 apartments, with spacious rooms (except for tiny galley kitchens where the top of a clothes washer was often used to prepare food).
Even though they don't get as much attention as the stylish 1930s art deco buildings, or the often taller Post WWII buildings, these 1920s buildings form the core of many New York City neighborhoods.
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