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NYC Landmarks Brouhaha Spotlights Forgotten Sites
IN A MOVE THAT COMES AS A GREAT RELIEF to those who care about New York City’s historic architecture, the Landmarks Preservation Commission has reversed its recent decision to drop nearly 100 properties from its calendar, where many had languished … Continue reading
Gateway to Gowanus
WHO WAS IT THAT SAID if you live long enough, you see everything? If you’ve lived in Brooklyn long enough (which I have — 35 years), you’ve seen the bleak no-person’s-land around the grievously polluted Gowanus Canal become a coveted … Continue reading
Posted in BROOKLYN, MISCELLANEOUS
Tagged BIGNYC, Book of Runes, Build it Green, Fletcher's, Four and Twenty Blackbirds, Gowanus, Gowanus Canal, Little Neck, NYC, runes, Runner and Stone, The Pines, Viking, Whole Foods
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Post-Sandy Dispatch from the Land of Normal
SANDY IS A TERRIBLE NAME for a hurricane; it sounds like a girl you dated in high school. This massive hybrid “superstorm” needed a much more formidable name. Medea, maybe, or Zarathustra. It was strange. Here in NYC, there wasn’t … Continue reading
Posted in BROOKLYN
Tagged BROOKLYN, damage, East Hampton, hurricane, NYC, Prospect Heights, Sandy, Springs, superstorm
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Springtime Fix-ups in Boerum Hill
CHOOSING EXTERIOR PAINT COLORS is even more nerve-wracking than choosing interior paint colors. After all, everyone will see them. And you have to consider context. You don’t (I don’t anyway) want it to clash with the house next door. I’m … Continue reading
Posted in ARCHITECTURE, BROOKLYN, MANAGING RENTAL PROPERTY, OLD-HOUSE MAKEOVERS, REAL ESTATE/INVESTING, RENOVATION
Tagged 1830s, Benjamin Moore, Boerum Hill, brownstone, Carroll Gardens, cast iron, cornice, egg and dart, exterior paint colors, facade, fluted pilasters, Greek Revival, molding, NYC, restoring, row house, storefront, tax photo, vestibule, wood storefront
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