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As an Architect, the TW center offends me just like the POS on astor place. But hey, it's good living for you and it's free. I love whole foods, but it costs more here than it does in Cali and it was already expensive there.
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wangster! i have to disagree with ya on the astor place gwathmey siegel place! duder, i'd live there in a heartbeat. i think it's way cool! and even the smallest pad there'd have room for a buncha bikes. plus you're near the lakeside!! and trackstar! and dumpling man! (and if ya could afford to live here, you'd definitely have the whipout for the bling at trackstar!!) :)

i got big dreams ya'll. i just wanna ride all day! kevin federline indeed!! :D ;)

damn, my next post was going to be wangling an invite to your crib so i could order take-out from asiate then do blow off your coffee table



i'd rather 1 cleveland place, the new buiding on lafayette and kenmare

someday dude!!! roll a doob!! plenty o' blow for us all!! glass coffee tables indeed!!! :beer: :beer:

[QUOTE=brunop]I hope your pullin our legs again. That astor place piece of foul sphincter excrement has been universally agreed upon by architects as one of the worst offenses to come out of gwathmey's ass for as long as he's practiced "architecture" If I'm ever asked to "design" something like that, I'd quit on the spot. If crap like that was built in europe, many more none architects would cry foul, but since we live here in the states, design isn't taught to no designers and sh*t like that goes unchallenged.

Every time I see that, in real life, in magazines, from far away, or from the street, I puke in my mouth then go home and wash my eyes out with rubbing alcohol.

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http://www.benstrawbridge.com/links/...0-19.37.55.jpg

I just did, damn you eddie... I'm at work, now I have to clean up and go buy some rubbing alchohol.

It's like a seeing a ugly midget fat chick wearing tutus, you don't want to look but you can't help it.

i'm for real on this one, wangster! i don't care what "architects" say! you'll still come do some blow when i move in though, right? you'll come around! :) :) :) :D

fltabush, or ditmas park, is great. 5 minutes fom the park, Q train is 30minutes to midtown, and not completely expensive. Plus it has all the old victorian houses that are huge but you can score a floor or live in an apartment in the many co-op buildings. Plus close to windsor terrace and Park slope.

Flatbush co-op. http://www.flatbushfoodcoop.com/
1318 Cortelyou Road

Until the realtors got to it, all of that was just Red Hook - all the way out to 4th ave, and all the way up to Atlantic. It's been a while, admittedly - but until Carroll Gardens got landmarked (and named as a separate neighborhood) there was no differentiation at all, at least in terms of what the neighborhoods were officially called (though old-timers obviously called things whatever they wanted, regardless of what the official surveyors said). If you pay attention to the OLD businesses and the signage on abandoned buildings, you can still see a lot of addresses in "Red Hook" all through the area... for example Red Hook Crushers on the Gowanus on 3rd St. Another example would be the new neighborhood Columbia, along Columbia St on the west side of the BQE - it was still Red Hook until it started getting hot a couple years ago; I remember when the neighborhood association got together to vote on what the new neighborhood would be called. See also: Nolita, TriBeCa, BoCoCa, etc.

The reason nobody knows where the borders of Gowanus are is that it wasn't even a place until a couple of years ago; I think I'm "officially" in Gowanus now, but it was the south end of Carroll Gardens when I moved here three years ago.

Awesome, thanks! I'll check it out!

oh man.. that's fkn hilarious

That building is so bad.. And for 3,000,000.00 you can have an open loft in an ugly buiding.

awesome! how can i be down?

broken robot please get a pic of that sign and i'll strip out the type and make an eps of that shït

please!!!

This thread has been helpful. I'm moving to brooklyn this summer. I'm super scared that NYC rent + 6 years of student loans = impossible. But I'm determined, and I'm very good at being poor.

there's always a way to make NYC work. it just depends on how creative/flexible you are about living and working.

and how good you are at giving head ;)

I don't remember their sign being particularly interesting, actually... but I'll try to remember to take a camera next time I'm going out that way.

eddie, they're supposed to be shocked by that fact. don't spoil the secrets of the city! besides...that only matters if you need a gallery or agency. it took me years to get the moisture back in my lips.

it's quite easy to eat & drink for free/cheap here.. rent's the most money you'll have to lay down for anything

This is what being in NY is all about! You've got to come in here and give it your best shot. Many of us here are living under similar conditions. Keeps things interesting ;)





if they vote again, let's hope for "ReHo"

my friend actually won the "hoodwinked" neighborhood nicknaming contest:
http://www.curbed.com/archives/2005/...e_a_winner.php
http://www.curbed.com/archives/2005_06_rambo-thumb.gif

also brunop, check out the penthouse in your bldg:
http://www.curbed.com/archives/2005/...in_the_sky.php
http://www.curbed.com/archives/2005_12_twcfloor.jpg

for that sort of dough, i'd want more than a couple of great rooms.

i'd need at least three great rooms to even consider it.

WTF is the point of a corner window when you just gonna put a column infront of it? kinda voids the whole purpose of a corner window, so all the disadvantages and none of the perks. Dumbasses... this is what happens when a building gets designed by a bunch of cad monkeys stuck in cubicle hell.

no kidding. i too was disappointed in the amount of great rooms.