I just discovered this great blog, The Wooden House Project, which explores and documents the history and community of wood frame houses in Brooklyn. Some really interesting stuff.
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March 16, 2011
46 Grand St. Header
By SinclairSomeone has been doing some work to the ground floor of 46 Grand St in Williamsburg and I have been checking out the beautiful existing cast iron structural work that frames the opening. Interestingly, the header that spans the original storefront opening and supports the upper brick facade is arched. But more interestingly, it [...]
March 2, 2011
Steven Heller: Dead Heads and Letterheads
By SinclairSteven Heller has a great post up at Imprint showing off a collection of corporate letterheads from the 40s. It’s a lost tradition, really. Some of these transcend any argument over mark vs no mark and just go all out with fluffy type and proud illustrations of headquarter office buildings. That’s the way it should [...]
January 25, 2011
OKI C of O
By SinclairThis certificate of occupancy changed the use of the building my wife and I own from manufacturing to commercial and is the result of the longest and hardest work/fight of my life. After nine years of battle I finally wrestled this thing from the foaming jaws of the New York City Department of Buildings. Anyway [...]
December 29, 2010
Buckshot
By SinclairA while back while we were building out J.D. Fisk and making all the plywood cabinet carcasses, my buddy Jake found this little guy and put it in my hand. “Buck shot,” he said. Yeah right, I laughed, but as we crouched around he explained that– of course– plywood comes from trees and trees come [...]
December 20, 2010
Extremes in community development
By SinclairThis is a fascinating story from last week’s NYTimes that tells of a 30yr old unsolved murder case featuring a vicious town bully who was gunned down in broad daylight, the dozens of eyewitnesses who saw nothing and the prosecutor who fought in vain against the town’s resolve to secrecy. I see this is a [...]
December 8, 2010
SpongeBob Inflation Orders
By SinclairI forgot to post this from the night before Thanksgiving. Since grade school I’ve tried to make a tradition of going to see the Macy’s Parade balloons being blown up on 77th. But I never noticed the inflation instructions before. I am generally fascinated by written or illustrated instructions. These are quite strange. (Click on [...]