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The Itinerant Urban Gardener
IT BEGAN when my daughter moved into a Prospect Heights brownstone with a struggling pine tree in a barrel out front. Each time I visited, I eyed the dead branches, wishing I could take a pruner to the thing and … Continue reading
The Insider: New-Construction Townhouse in Boerum Hill
THAT’S SOME SUPER-MODERN townhouse among the brownstones, above, but to my surprise, the often snarky commenters on Brownstoner seem to like it. Most of them anyway. I was afraid the architects, Ben and Christine Hansen, might be raked over the coals. … Continue reading
Posted in ARCHITECTURE, BROOKLYN, THE INSIDER - BROWNSTONER.COM
Tagged architect, Ben Hansen, Boerum Hill, Christine Hansen
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Still Here
FOR THE RECORD, I’m still here. Bouncing back and forth between East Hampton and Brooklyn, and heading for a record low number of casaCARA posts this month. Reasons why: Work. I’m starting a second weekly column on Brownstoner.com, the behemoth … Continue reading
Posted in MISCELLANEOUS
Tagged Boerum Hill, Brownstoner, East Hampton, Prospect Heights, Springs, The Insider, The Outsider
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New Year’s Skies, Brooklyn Pies
I KEEP TRYING to capture the light. The ephemeral, late afternoon, early January light. As I went about my mundane errands, on the most ordinary stretches of Brooklyn street, I was taken again and again by the beauty of the … Continue reading
Posted in BROOKLYN
Tagged Boerum Hill, Grand Army Plaza, Maimonides of Brooklyn, neon, Park Slope
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