Category Archives: St. Mark’s Ave.

New Little Modern Box of a Building on St. Mark's

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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).

Chanting, Non-Stop

Nav_wheelgirlCathy writes: "Paul and our boys and I have just returned from a wonderful week up at Kripalu … It is the tradition … to do three days of continuous chanting, round the clock, leading up to the turning of the year … carried out in a huge meditation hall, beautifully lit with thousands of blue lights and candles everywhere, dozens of musicians and chanters at the front leading hundreds of people through a repetitious chant of ‘Om Namah Shivaya’" …