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November 22nd, 2024
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- The Priest, the Power Broker and the Pop Star [NYT]
- Brooklyn Needs Housing. She Can’t Build on Vacant Lot [NYT]
- Rain, Finally. But We Need a Lot More [NYT]
- Reaching-Out Community Services Reopens Food Pantry [BP]
- Bushwick Leader ‘Nobel Prize Winner’ of Public Service [Bushwick Daily]
- Audit: Lack of Oversight Led to NYCHA Contract Corruption [The City]
- Children in Shelters With Time Limits Leaving School System [The City]
- Passive House Public Schools Open In Downtown Broooklyn [6sqft]
- Universal Composting Off to Slow Start [Gothamist]
- Permits Filed for 483 Driggs Avenue in Williamsburg [NYY]
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A Masterpiece of Education: Flatbush’s Erasmus Hall Academy and High SchoolI was a student at Erasmus 1971-1973. The original building was the guidance counselor's offices. Mr. Israel was principal in 1971 and Mrs. Oxman took of in 1972. Mr. Pollack was my guidance counselor and once of the assistant principal's. The pool was closed when I went there. Recently I have run into some former classmates (but the school was so large we did not know each other when there).
A Masterpiece of Education: Flatbush’s Erasmus Hall Academy and High SchoolIt's also nice to see a demonstration that vintage-style brickwork CAN still be done nowadays, and that new-build brick buildings don't have to lack detail -- it's not impossible, it's just cheaper that way.
At the New Hermès Store Going Up in ‘Burg, the Original Details Are FakeI like it! Had they simply replicated what they thought was an old brick commercial building without the big new picture windows, it would have been disingenuous, as if they were trying to fool people. But the oversized windows clearly state it's a combination of old (well, fake-old) and new. In a residential district, I might be offended by the plate glass windows, but this was always a retail corner, to go by the vintage photos.
At the New Hermès Store Going Up in ‘Burg, the Original Details Are Fake