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Outdoor Loudness Season (OLS): New Regulations for 2005

Posted on March 31, 2005 by dailyheights

Just a friendly reminder to leave your windows and front doors wide open in observance of Outdoor Loudness Season (OLS), sometimes referred to as “Spring.” Please be sure to maintain minimum decibel levels, particularly when washing your car, or pulling up to the curb to pick up your friends.

Those living in apartments on 4th or higher floors may need to increase stereo volume to compensate for distance from the street. Rule of thumb: simply double the standard blasting volume to be sure you’re in the “safe zone.”

Is Your Friend/Relative/”Connection” At Home? No need to use your cell phone during Outdoor Loudness Season. Just be sure your to have the bass pumping, and your windows rolled down, BEFORE you double park on the opposite side of the street. If double parking is not available, block a fire hydrant. Please be sure to spend at least 5 minutes crossing the street, knocking on the door of your friend who is clearly not at home, and then walking, slowly, again, back, across, two, lanes, of, traffic (allow an extra 2 minutes if neighborhood babies are napping in bedrooms facing the street).

Musical selections are no longer mandatory for 2005 (ref. “Hey Ya/When I Move, You Move” alternate-side blasting regulations of 2004). However, playing prerecorded tapes of dancehall reggae deejays grunting and yelling at strategic intervals (i.e., “HUUNNNH!”) is widely encouraged.

The Jackson Five, though pioneers of Loud in at least one respect, are expressly forbidden for the duration of The Season. [IMAGE CONSULTANT: J5-Collector.com]

'ProHo' CANCELLED; Spelling and Punctuation Now Optional

Posted on March 30, 2005 by dailyheights

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No more ‘ProHo.’ You have been WARNED. I am putting you yuppies on NOTICE:

“THe name of the neighbothood is PROSPECT HEIGHTS that is it no nickname needed … You Yuppies may have ruined downtown brooklyn, by you ain’t gonna ruine Prosect Heights”

No Hate Mail from Australians, Yet

Posted on March 30, 2005 by dailyheights

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It’s been more than 24 hours. Was it too subtle?

Drop Everything: Adult Spelling Bee TONIGHT

Posted on March 30, 2005 by dailyheights

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LOCATION: Freddy’s on Dean near Flatbush. Probably will get underway around 8. $1 Per Round; Winner Take All. See the Events Calendar for more details. JOSH tells DH: “The bee should be extra fun tonight since I think there are going to be a fair amount of bee virgins.”

BAD SPELLERS, TAKE NOTE: “Would you mention something about how a woman told me how bad of a speller she was before the last Bee I had, and she went on to win.”

PHOTO: Chris “Got the Jimmy Legs” G. gets alphabetic at last month’s bee. Heather: “It is turning into a force to be reckoned with. The house was packed — people were standing in the back due to lack of enough seating.”

SUNDAY: Recycle Your Electronics at Grand Army Plaza

Posted on March 30, 2005 by dailyheights

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Recycle Your Electronics Day: Sunday, April 3rd
11am to 3pm @ Prospect Park West at Grand Army Plaza

-Bring your old computer
-Bring your friends and their old computers
-Stop by to say hello
-Help load the truck

WHAT CAN BE RECYCLED? Working and non-working computers, servers, monitors, printers, copiers, fax machines, scanners, TVs (no
wooden consoles please), keyboards, mice, cables, docking stations, battery backups, storage devices, routers, radios, phones, cell phones, stereo equipment, CD players and microwaves.

WHERE WILL THE ELECTRONICS GO? To Per Scholas, a nonprofit organization in the South Bronx with three primary goals: bring computers to technologically deprived children and families at the lowest possible cost, train disadvantaged community residents to become computer technicians, and provide environmentally responsible recycling of end-of-life computer equipment in their EPA Approved Recycling Facility.

Donations: Appreciated but not required. In exchange for each $10 donation, contributors will receive a $25 coupon toward the purchase of a Per Scholas reconditioned computer.

Mystery Real Estate Auction Date

Posted on March 30, 2005 by dailyheights

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QUIG checks in: “The other day, I stumbled upon this listing:

SUPREME COURT — KINGS COUNTY … AL’S REAL ESTATE, INC., plaintiff, against MAURICE GIBSON, et al, Defendants … foreclosure and sale … I will sell, at public auction, to the highest bidder … on April 7, 2005, at 3:00 p.m. … 951 Pacific Street, Brooklyn … Judgment is for $183,526.00 …

“Auction? Real Estate? P_heights? It was a Tom Vu moment. What castle could be picked up for pennies on the Euro? I decided to investigate while walking my dogs, Monster 1 and 2. What I came upon was this vision in galvanized steel and cinderblock: What could be hidden behind those walls?”

Cafe Press?

Posted on March 29, 2005 by dailyheights

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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.

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

Posted on March 29, 2005 by dailyheights

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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).

GET A BLOG: Amy's Self Indulgence (UPDATED)

Posted on March 29, 2005 by dailyheights

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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…”

Reference: [GET A BLOG: Typepad 90 Days Free with Secret DAILYHEIGHTS Code]

Oil-less New York to Be "Encysted in a Fabric of Necrotic Suburbia"

Posted on March 29, 2005 by dailyheights

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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 [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 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.