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BOOK REVIEW Garden Guide: New York City
NEW YORK in 2011 is truly a great garden city. World-class, I’d venture to say. Yet, as Nancy Berner and Susan Lowry point out in the newly revised edition of Garden Guide: New York City (W.W. Norton, $22.95), as recently as … Continue reading
Posted in BOOK REVIEW, GARDENS & GARDENING, LANDSCAPING, MANHATTAN
Tagged Battery Park, botanic gardens, Bronx, Bronx County Courthouse Greenroof Garden, Chelsea, Conservatory Garden, Dyckman Farmhouse, Garden Guide: New York City, gardens, Greek Revival, Greenacre Park, greenroof garden, High Line, Irish Hunger Memorial, Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum, Lotus Garden, Morris-Jumel, Mount Vernon Hotel, Nancy Berner, NEW YORK CITY, Piet Oudolf, Queens Botanical Garden, Red Hook, revised edition, Snug Harbor, Staten Island, Susan Lowry, W.W. Norton
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Must-Go List: Weeksville and Onderdonk
THIS WEEK’S E-MAIL NEWSLETTER FROM Brooklyn Based reminded me that there are still some nearby historic houses in my “I keep meaning to get there” category. I’ve seen the Lefferts homestead in Prospect Park (not its original location), the 1652 … Continue reading
Posted in BROOKLYN, HISTORIC PRESERVATION
Tagged Brooklyn Based, Bushwick, Crown Heights, Dutch Colonial, Dutch doors, Flatlands, gambrel roof, Hunterfly Road, James Weeks, Landmarks Commission, National Register of Historic Places, NEW YORK CITY, Onderdonk House, Ridgewood, stone farmhouse, Weeksville
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Spare Us the ‘Fancy Houses’
PROSPECT HEIGHTS in Brooklyn was designated a New York City Historic District in 2009. Now any external changes to a house’s appearance are subject to the guidelines and regulations of the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission. No longer will it be … Continue reading
Posted in BROOKLYN, HISTORIC PRESERVATION, OLD-HOUSE MAKEOVERS, RENOVATION
Tagged Amity Street, brownstone, Carlton Avenue, Clem Labine, Clinton Hill, Cobble Hill, crazy paving, crazy quilt, facade, fancy house, historic district, Joe Delgado, Landmarks Preservation Commission, National Trust for Historic Preservation, NEW YORK CITY, Old House Journal, Permastone, Prospect Heights, St. Mark's Avenue
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A Blogger for One Year
A YEAR AGO TODAY, on the parlor floor of a Brooklyn brownstone, I started this blog. Sitting next to me was web designer Ken Smith, whom I’d hired to show me the ropes. I had a vague notion I ought … Continue reading
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Tagged a year of blogging, blogger, BLOGGING, BROWNSTONE VOYEUR, Brownstoner, casaCARA, cottage, East Hampton, Hamptons, HAMPTONS VOYEUR, hits, how many, how to blog, how to survive, Ken Smith, NEW YORK CITY, old-house real estate, Tarski, top posts, WordPress
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Ode to the Philadelphia Rowhouse
Fitzwater Street, Queen Village THERE’S A HUGE, TELLING DIFFERENCE between New York City and Philadelphia in terms of how each values and regards its vernacular architecture. It’s hard to imagine NYC’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development putting out something … Continue reading
Posted in HISTORIC PRESERVATION, OLD-HOUSE MAKEOVERS, PHILADELPHIA
Tagged Center for Architecture, energy efficiency, maintenance, mechanicals, National Trust for Historic Preservation, NEW YORK CITY, PHILADELPHIA, Philadelphia Planning Commission, Philadelphia Rowhouse Manual, resources, rowhouse, Society Hill, trinity, vernacular architecture
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