Month: August 2008

• Rhymes with Clueless

  349 Metropolitan, pre-EIFS (the post-EIFS view is here. Today, the Times discovered that a lot of developers are using stucco, in particular EIFS, the stucco-over-styrofoam system that has been all the rage for the last 10 or 15 years. You see it in retrofits – its the new artificial siding in North Brooklyn (often covering…

  18 August 2008

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• Ahh, Spite

  http://blogs.nypost.com/re/archives/2008/08/how_do_you_like.html

  17 August 2008

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• 421-a Twist

  http://www.nysun.com/real-estate/abatements-end-could-spur-flurry-of-lawsuits/83828/

  17 August 2008

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• Northside Piers

  http://ny.therealdeal.com/articles/watching-sales-at-two-northside-piers

  17 August 2008

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• Don Helms

  http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/arts/music/17helms.html?ex=1376625600&en=9a86b752a907b7e2&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink

  17 August 2008

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• Tootsie Roll

  http://curbed.com/archives/2008/08/13/chocolate_factory_on_west_broadway_revealed_unwrapped.php

  16 August 2008

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• Yassky Abuses Parking Permit

  http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2008/08/15/2008-08-15_councilmen_with_own_parking_spaces_spent.html

  16 August 2008

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• DOB Reform

  http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/09/nyregion/09about.html?ex=1375934400&en=312c9125cba057a9&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink

  9 August 2008

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• Weeked Plans

  Williamsburg Walks Today is the last day of Williamsburg Walks. Seven blocks of Bedford Avenue will be closed to traffic, and open to the imagination. (And over in Oz, seven miles of streets will be closed to traffic for the first Summer Streets Saturday.) Food Drive The Church of the Ascension will be at Tops…

  9 August 2008

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• David Brooks is An Idiot

  http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/08/opinion/08brooks.html?ex=1375848000&en=286fb469ea17955c&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink

  8 August 2008

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