The end of a (three-year) era at McCarren Pool.
Apparently the “hipsters” aren’t looking forward to swimming there: “most said that they thought the pool would be too dirty”. Seriously, most of the “hipsters” interviewed said this? How many is most?
Last Show
Palin: Over-Under?
Is there an over/under on how long Palin’s candidacy will last?
And with new evidence coming out on an hourly basis that McCain didn’t do the most basic vetting of Palin, how much longer will we have to hear about his superior “experience”? In the “most important decision of his candidacy”, McCain decided to shoot from the hip. He rolled the dice. If this is how McCain would operate as president (and there is every reason to believe that it absolutely is how he would operate as president), we should all be losing sleep at night.
John McCain forgot the most important qualification for a VP: do no harm. He went for the pander trifecta (the base, blue collar voters and women) with a nominee whom he had met for less than 20 minutes.
I said it before and I’ll say it again – I’ll take judgement and discretion over experience.
Bike Rack
At Seven Berry, evidence of what happens when luxury condos are built without bike racks balconies.
On a related note, Seven Berry is yet another example of the folly of glass houses. Most of the units on the upper floors facing Berry look to be occupied, and they are hodgepodge of window treatments. This was clearly not the look the architect intended – renderings of these buildings always show luminescent glass boxes, with people living fabulous lives for all to see. Of course few people are capable of living a life for all to see, so people put up curtains. Mies van der Rohe got it right at the Seagram Building – everyone gets a venetian blind with three positions, up, middle and down.
At the ground floor, they have opted for mirror glass. This too is not an elegant solution.
(To be fair, this photo was taken in the late morning, when the sun is pretty harsh on this side of the building.)