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Nothing to see here, folks.
Last Tuesday the New York New Visions committee held another presentation/listening session to a rather profound silence — from the media, even as the room was packed with design professionals, interested observers, and generally angry and frustrated citizens of many stripes. The evening featured presentations from the new head of the LMDC, Stefan Pryor, and […]
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Tattered York, Tattered Visions.
This evening the New York, New Visions group is holding a — well, I’m not sure what they are calling it this go around. It’s not a listening session (cause that would take way too long), and apparently the last effort to make it seem like privileged information was being disseminated (it was ‘off-the-record’) has […]
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Housing for the Rest of Us: Spring Creek, Part II
NOTE: Last week (okay, I’m running a little slow here), I wrote up the context and background of Spring Creek Houses, a public-private development in East New York. Today is a discussion about the design proper. The actual housing units at Spring Creek were designed by Alexander Gorlin, who has maintained a healthy mix of […]
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Housing for the Rest of Us: Spring Creek.
This is the first in a series of discussions of housing up and down (well, down and up) the income scale. Three projects will be discussed in detail, with posts separated by particular issues. The first project is Spring Creek Houses in East New York, the result of a public-private partnership that aims to provide […]
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Your Hidden City.
Somehow, Chad Smith over at Tropolism believes that I would be less acerbic when judging the unwashed masses; that, or I’m supposed to be the British guy from American Idol for this gig. Either way, I’m here to support the effort to turn the mike at y’all. Blogging means everyone gets an opinion, no matter […]
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Not enough trees grow in Brooklyn.
So I’m a little late to the Brooklyn waterfront redevelopment – are you surprised at all? – controversy. I was vaguely aware that some feathers were ruffled when private housing was abruptly introduced, but the usual practice of too abbreviated representations (have developers and architects figured out yet that this Interweb thingee can freely distribute […]
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Luxhastion.
A recent post over at Polis called to mind an occasional discussion that creeps up as exhaustion from real estate vampirism sets in: the pervasiveness of luxury. Well, not luxury per se, but the presumption of, the claim of, the advertising of luxury. A luxury that is often not actually evident in the subsequent viewings, […]
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The closest this blog gets to breaking news.
It’s all of six and no one has bothered to post this, so here’s my bit of service blogging and news breaking. The Synagogue on Rivington Street — directly opposite Teany — has partially collapsed. Or so said a number of standers-by. I was leaving Alias (which has an excellent brunch, a fact that seems […]
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Do it to her.
I saw a cockroach last night. Not an unusual occurrence, right? Well, it was on my pillow. Given that my pillow sits on a futon that sits directly on my floor, this incursion isn’t wholly unexpected. It’s New York. Cockroaches. But how do you squash one when it’s on the damn pillow? This was worked […]
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Every breath you take.