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Nforth Reports Smooth Sale-ing
04.09.2008 10:24
brownstoner.com
Another vote of confidence for the Williamsburg residential market—or at least that portion close to the Bedford L stop. The NForth (a former Brownstoner advertiser) has sold 60% of its condos in 12 weeks, according to The Developers Group. The building has four stories and 37 residences, designed by Karl Fischer with equally pervasive designer Andres Escobar handling the interiors. The usual luxury amenities apply: lounge, gym, and "landscaped common backyard with stone waterfall feature." Sounds nice. Anybody bought, or just looked, here?
New York
Construction & Real Estate
Inside Third & Bond: Week 52
04.09.2008 10:23
brownstoner.com
Given that we're at the 52-week mark of the Third & Bond Blog, we should be having a birthday cake or something around here. Instead, the Hudson Companies crew talks lighting. Lighting. It can make the difference between falling in love and falling asleep. The difference between wearing navy socks, black socks, or one of each. The difference between spending $40,000 or $1,500. The pursuit of the best lighting for a condo development begins with the architect’s design. Natural lighting is the first influence – which way can the building be reasonably oriented on a tight urban site to capture the best light? What will the façade material be and the corresponding window cut-outs? A glass curtain wall such as On Prospect Park provides a different interior light than the oversized warehouse windows of One Brooklyn Bridge Park or the typically narrow but tall townhouse window. A fluorescent light proposed for common hallways. Once the natural light is accounted for, the architect turns to lighting the living space as needed for the hours when the sun is shining on China and for the spaces where dwellers will want additional light no matter the lumens naturally available. The architect places lights in kitchens, bathrooms, closets, common hallways – everywhere. The architect also makes a proposed “light schedule” which enumerates every light to be placed in the building. (The electrical engineer will later use this schedule and the architect’s drawings to create electrical drawings that further detail the work.)
New York
Construction & Real Estate
Giving Cash to Children
04.09.2008 10:12
washingtonpost.com
When should kids be taught about money?
USA
Finance & Investments
Wall St. sinks on labor market, global growth fears
04.09.2008 10:12
washingtonpost.com
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks tumbled about 2 percent on Thursday, battered by more signs of weakness in the U.S. labor market and increasingly sluggish growth overseas, raising worries about the corporate profit outlook.
USA
Finance & Investments
Olympic hammer throw medalists in doping probe
04.09.2008 08:25
usatoday.com
The silver and bronze medalists in the men's hammer throw at the Beijing Olympics are being investigated for doping offenses by International Olympic Committee.
USA
Olympic Games
Southern coast prepares for Hanna
04.09.2008 08:23
usatoday.com
Residents moved boats and booked inland hotel rooms while National Guard troops prepared to deploy along the Southeastern coast ...
USA
Social Life
Boycott over, back to school for Chicago students
04.09.2008 08:23
usatoday.com
Public school students who skipped classes to protest unequal education funding were urged to return to their desks Thursday ...
USA
Social Life
Jesse Jackson hospitalized for stomach pains
04.09.2008 08:23
usatoday.com
The Rev. Jesse Jackson says he is feeling much better after being treated overnight at a Chicago hospital after experiencing ...
USA
Social Life
Detroit mayor makes plea deal, will step down
04.09.2008 08:23
usatoday.com
Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, his lawyers and the Wayne County prosecutor appeared briefly in court before going behind closed ...
USA
Social Life
Report: Americans more likely to have tried illicit drugs
04.09.2008 08:23
usatoday.com
Cocaine and methamphetamine use among young adults declined significantly last year as supplies dried up, leading to higher prices ...
USA
Social Life
Fire retardant chemicals found in toddlers' blood
04.09.2008 08:23
usatoday.com
A new study finds that young children have high levels of chemical fire retardants in their blood. Toddlers and preschoolers ...
USA
Social Life
Jury awards $55M to kin of 4 Marines who died in '04 crash
04.09.2008 08:23
usatoday.com
A jury has found a utility negligent in the deaths of four U.S. Marines who were killed when their helicopter hit an unlit tower ...
USA
Social Life
Take a Dip in the Brownstoner Flickr Photo Pool
04.09.2008 08:21
brownstoner.com
City pools may have closed up shop for the season, but the Brownstoner Flickr pool is available 24/7 for your Brooklyn photographs. Please join us there so you can see your photographs here. Urban Hurdle. Photo by weenieart.
New York
Construction & Real Estate
Open House Picks: Six Months Later
04.09.2008 08:21
brownstoner.com
Other than the Windsor Place sale, not a lot of reasons to cheer. Open House Picks 2/29/08 [Brownstoner]
New York
Construction & Real Estate
Green on Brownstoner: Creative Reuse in Kensington
04.09.2008 08:20
brownstoner.com
Our second installment of Green on Brownstoner finds architect Ryan Enschede maximizing daylight in a Kensington Victorian.If you have a tale of going green in Brooklyn, please let us know. The owners of a recently-purchased house in Kensington asked me to help them make renovations to the ground floor. The project included replacing the non-functioning kitchen, adding a ground-floor bathroom, and replacing the collapsing steps to the rear yard. In addition they wanted to incorporate “green” construction methods, increase daylight in the kitchen, open the kitchen to the dining room to allow daylight further into the center of the house, and maximize the usability and connection to the small rear yard. The new work was designed in a "traditional" style to integrate with the original details remaining in the balance of the house, and the final design for the backyard steps incorporated an unusual solution for the basement hatch, which was also a project goal. The “green”-ness of this project represents an accumulation of relatively small choices across all the aspects of the work. All of the “green” materials we chose are readily available, with the possible exception of the FSC-certified wood products, and did not require any special sources to obtain. To allow a wider range of decorative choices, we specified light fixtures designed for regular “bulbs” and inserted retrofit-type compact fluorescent lamps. Many excellent dual-flush and low-flow toilets are available with no cost premium, and many good low-VOC paints are widely available: we used Benjamin Moore Eco-spec and AFM Safecoat.
New York
Construction & Real Estate
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