Author: Halden
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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…
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Trying to Revive Manufacturing In Brooklyn: A Futile Cause
Dennis Holt, in the Eagle, thinks that trying to save good jobs in Brooklyn is a lost cause. His main point is that the Brooklyn waterfront is not going to rise again as a industrial powerhouse – you know, containerization and all that. And he has a point. But only up to a point. In…
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A Noun, A Verb and…
John McCain (who is not a celebrity) appeared on the Tonight Show for the 13th time last night. In response to jokes from Jay Leno about McCain’s inability to remember how many houses he owns, McCain (reluctantly, I’m sure) responded by talking about his five years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
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Hipsters Just Don’t Get It
As you’ve no doubt heard, David Byrne has designed a host of location-specific bike racks for the sidewalks of NYC. Williambsburg is Dead is not impressed, and based on field observations this evening, he clearly speaks for his generation. This is the Williamsburg bike rack, on Bedford and North 6th Street. Note the bicycles chained…
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Jacob Neuman
Jacob Neuman is the 5-year-old boy who died yesterday in a tragic fall down an elevator shaft at Taylor-Wythe Houses in Williamsburg. What makes this tragedy more galling is the fact that it is not all that surprising. The New York City Housing Authority, which runs the City’s public housing projects, has a horrible track…
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Judgement
In the same speech in which he denounced Barack Obama’s ambition to become president, John McCain also had this to say: And in matters of national security, good judgment will be at a premium in the term of the next president Oh yes, judgement. Such as Obama’s judgement that we need a reasonable time table…
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Ambition
Today John McCain chided Barack Obama for his “ambition to be president”. Just so we are all on the same page: This is the same John McCain who has been running for president non-stop since 1999. This is the same John McCain who has embraced not only Bush fils, but has also embraced Pat Roberson…
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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…
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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…