There are quite a few houses like the one below in the greater Bay Ridge / Dyker Heights / Bath Beach / Bensonhurst area of Brooklyn that have what we have coined to be a Darwin Terrace.

The Darwin Terrace is typically on the 2nd or 3rd floor of a private home.  It is entered onto by way of a sliding glass door.  It does not have a railing on it, and it gives off the appearance of the Darwin Terrace homeowner having run out of funds on an ill-conceived home renovation.

The Darwin Terrace gets its name by way of a homeowner who will one day be dumb enough to wake up in the morning, walk out onto a terrace that does not have a railing on it, go for a stretch and subsequently fall off the side of his or her terrace to their death being someone whose death will be dumb enough to receive a Darwin Award.

Quite honestly, we’re simply shocked (and thankful) that in light of the many Darwin Terraces throughout Brooklyn, we haven’t heard of one little toddler unknowingly walking his or her way out of the house by way of the Darwin Terrace to a sad death.

Snap out of it and get a fence people!!!