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Electrocuted Dogs: How Many Will Die? Are Your Children Next?

Posted by dailyheights on Thursday 16 February 2006 at 4:30 pm

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News Flash: One Prospect Park is HUGE

Posted by dailyheights on Thursday 16 February 2006 at 3:34 pm

one_prospect_park.gifAll these “out of scale” concerns about new development in Brooklyn seem a bit overblown… but just take a look at the size of this thing! Can anyone Photoshop this into a photo of the Temple parking lot to see how it will look?

Quote from an article in The Real Deal:

“With his Lower Manhattan projects complete, Meier is turning to Brooklyn. One Prospect Park will be a 15-story glass tower with 119 condos, located along Plaza Street and Eastern Parkway facing Grand Army Plaza and overlooking Prospect Park. It’s scheduled to be completed in summer 2008.”

UPDATE! Thanks to pete_c for this Photoshop:

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pete_c says: “w/o a better original, its kind of hard to get anything even remotely accurate, but based on floor sizes I’d think that the lower half will be at or higher than the line of brownstone cornices off to the northeast, along St John’s.”

“I like quig’s better too! More true to the neighborhood spirit at least.”

…Oh yeah… pete is right. Of course, we can’t forget DH regular quig and his Gehry-esque reimagining of the Meier building:

LINK: Living in glass houses, shunning stone [The Real Deal]

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Biking on the Sidewalk: Beating the Rap

Posted by dailyheights on Thursday 16 February 2006 at 2:06 pm

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Originally uploaded by Dope on the Slope.

We spoke with jodi miller who posted the following story on a Brooklyn bike list:

“I received a summons in December for riding my bicycle on the wide sidewalk of Flatbush Avenue for one block to get to a store so I wouldn’t have to deal with the crazy traffic that runs onto Flatbush off of Grand Army Plaza. The summons was for violation of NYC Administrative Code 19-176(b) …”

“In case you ever receive a similar summons, I looked up the Administrative Code provision and it says: A person who violates this subdivision may be issued a notice of violation and shall be liable of not more than one hundred dollars which may be recovered in a proceeding before the environmental control board.“

“I went into Criminal Court … and argued to the Judicial Hearing Officer that the court did not have jurisdiction over the case because the penalty could only be recovered in a proceeding before the ECB. The judge agreed and dismissed the case.”

“If the NYPD is going to use public resources to issue these citations, they should at least follow the city’s laws in doing so. However, I am not going to be the one to tell them that they are doing it wrong.”

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