Category: Noted
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Welcome Home
From the 475Kent.com blog: At 3pm the sprinklers passed the hydrostatic test mandated by DOB and FDNY. The vacate is lifted as of 4pm. Hooray! We are back thanks not only to the huge amount of work by building residents and owners but by city agencies and electeds especially Councilman David Yassky, Assemblymen Joe Lentol…
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PSA: Lost Cat
If either of you have seen this gray tiger cat in the vicinity of Hooper between South 2nd and South 3rd Streets, please call 646-620-5702. He (or she) went missing on Sunday, and his (or her) owner is anxious to have him (or her) back. I don’t know what name he (or she)He answers to…
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That Explains It
Closed by Order of the Department of Health It has been noted elsewhere that Kellogg’s Diner has closed for renovations. Turns out, the closing might not be so voluntary. It seems the Department of Health happened to stop by and – surprise, surprise – found a few things amiss. So as the sticker here indicates,…
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Some Changes
Things look different here (hopefully for the better), but most of the content and workings are the same. The goal of the redesign was to simplify the design and focus on the content as exclusively as possible. The only real difference in terms of usage is that the linked entries now have the permalink icon…
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Cranes
Dueling cranes on North 5th Street. To the right, 90 North 5th Street is loading in more steel; to the left, 154 Berry is pumping in concrete. If you’re keeping score at home, 90 North 5th is Robert Scarano & Associates, 154 Berry is Karl Fisher Architect. The Northside in a nutshell – at least…
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Foreshadowing
The Firpo Building, ca. 2006 (aka, the glory days). As long as we’ve lived in Williamsburg there has been a decrepit tin-sided house on Roebling at the head of Fillmore Place. The pitched roof has been sagging for over 15 years, and the siding has been slowly peeling away all that time. To us, it…
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The $29.95 solution
Updating modernist buildings is always a dilemma – how do you make a metal and glass building feel new again? At Lever House, RFR undertook a painstaking (and award-winning) restorationAt 110 William Street, Swig Equities is going the Earl Scheib route – just paint the sucker.