Brooklyn Inside & Out

Decking over sounds great, using the underside for delivery hubs seems useful, but the idea that people are going to want to hang out and enjoy a space under a piece of polluting infrastructure sounds like putting lipstick on a pig. Bury the whole thing, or tear it down.

I think it's a stunningly beautiful home, spacious with rich history and artistry. Believe it will get close to Asking. Anywho...A+

Repairing the cantilever is such a failure at the state and local level. Step one of any fix is to prepare the ground level road for BQE traffic, but they can't even start on it. At some point, the road will fail and people will get hurt. As to the other aspect of the article, the city should be first in line to claim grants to cover the BQE in Williamsburg and Carroll Gardens. If there's a downside to those projects, I don't see them.

Thanks Cate. If that article about Fuller ball faucets had been available long ago I might have saved my original faucets, although the reproductions work well and look almoxt exactly the same. The worst thing about the originals was that there wasn't enough clearance to unscrew them to get at the inner workings without removing them from the sink.