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I’m about to set up a Cafe Press account for DAILY HEIGHTS and it says “Give credit to the person who referred you!” If you want credit, send me your Store ID.
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Dailyheights.com is a community website for the Prospect Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. Most of the interesting stories start on the Prospect Heights Message Board. There is also an active Park Slope Message Board. Both are part of Brooklynian.com. Questions, comments, tips? Contact whatsnew@dailyheights.com.
New Little Modern Box of a Building on St. Mark’s
Susan writes: “I just posted some photos of examples of modern architecture in the vicinity (crow hill, ph, and park slope). There’s a new little modern box of a building at 303 St. Mark’s (St. Mark’s & Underhill) that peaked my interest, so I picked some other favorites to show, too.”
Here’s a map of the place. According to PropertyShark.com, the owners of the place are John and Jill Bouratoglou, both of whom are listed as archtectural faculty with the New York City College of Technology (CUNY).
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GET A BLOG: Amy’s Self Indulgence (UPDATED)
Amy, one of the ProHo’ers who took us up on the Kind-of-Free Blog offer, is already up and running–told you it was easy. Check out the The Selfindulgence Blah-g, in which Amy says: “inspired by the awesome Apartment Therapy web site I am posting some photos of my recently renovated kitchen.
This could be you! Secret codes are still available. And no, DH is not getting a kickback from the Typepad/Movable Type/Six Apart people.
UPDATED: Amy has a great post today about a Corcoran open house in her building: “I don’t think you could get $260k for this place if it was in Manhattan. I see they have sheduled another open house for next weekend…”
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Oil-less New York to Be “Encysted in a Fabric of Necrotic Suburbia”
Part 2 in the “Impending Economic Disaster” Series
DAILY HEIGHTS confuses a lot of people. Why the obsession with Home Heating Oil? Is it a hip and ironic club, or a workaday storefront business trafficking in fossil fuel-related products? And what’s the point of a website that forces focus on one tiny neighborhood? Isn’t the Web all about global communities that transcend those pesky geographical barriers?
To introduce more confusion (and fear) on the issues of fossil fuel and the new localism, we now present excerpts from “The Long Emergency,” an essay by James Howard Kunstler that appeared recently in Rolling Stone. Please don’t read unless you plan on surviving the painful, apocalyptic disintegration of the modern world into medieval fiefdoms, which begins right now–if you believe those tin-foil-hat-wearing crackpots at that fringe outfit known as the U.S. Department of Energy.
[ROAD WARRIORS: Marauding thugs pursue an oil tanker in the outback. Could we too, one day, be forced to live like Australians?]
KUNSTLER in ROLLING STONE: “…America is still sleepwalking into the future … we face the end of the cheap-fossil-fuel era … The most knowledgeable experts … now concur that 2005 is apt to be the year of all-time global peak production. … In March, the Department of Energy released a report that officially acknowledges for the first time that “peak oil” is for real and states plainly that ‘the world has never faced a problem like this’ …”
“The circumstances … will require us to downscale and re-scale virtually everything we do and how we do it … Our lives will become profoundly and intensely local. Daily life will be far less about mobility and much more about staying where you are … The commercial aviation industry, already on its knees financially, is likely to vanish.”
“Food production is going to be an enormous problem … The American economy of the mid-twenty-first century may actually center on agriculture, not information, not high tech, not “services” like real estate sales or hawking cheeseburgers to tourists … We can anticipate the re-formation of a native-born American farm-laboring class … composed largely of … economic losers who had to relinquish their grip on the American dream …”
“New York and Chicago face extraordinary difficulties, being oversupplied with gigantic buildings out of scale with the reality of declining energy supplies. Their former agricultural hinterlands have long been paved over. They will be encysted in a surrounding fabric of necrotic suburbia that will only amplify and reinforce the cities’ problems.”
“We will not believe that this is happening to us, that 200 years of modernity can be brought to its knees by a world-wide power shortage … If there is any positive side … it may be in the benefits of close communal relations, of having to really work intimately (and physically) with our neighbors, to be part of an enterprise that really matters and to be fully engaged in meaningful social enactments instead of being merely entertained to avoid boredom.”
Have a nice day.
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