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August 14,2003 Blackout ( 12 years ago )

I remember this like it was yesterday

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_2003

I remember too. I was in Harlem I ended up walking about 6 miles home. getting free ice cream and such along the way given away before it melts.  I was tempted to sleep outside that night it was so hot inside.

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Brooklyn may join the 1000+ foot skyscraper club.

 

http://www.citylab.com/housing/2015/08/brooklyn-may-join-the-super-tall-skyscraper-club/400592/

 

A skyscraper more than 1,000 feet tall might be heading to Brooklyn. Towers that tall are hard to come by even in Manhattan, and there aren’t any plans to build anything that large in any other borough yet.

But there’s plenty of demand for a super-tall residential tower in Brooklyn—and now, one of the developers who has nurtured Manhattan’s Billionaire’s Row has the air rights to build something as tall as the Empire State Building in downtown Brooklyn.

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Brooklyn may join the 1000+ foot skyscraper club.

http://www.citylab.com/housing/2015/08/brooklyn-may-join-the-super-tall-skyscraper-club/400592/

A skyscraper more than 1,000 feet tall might be heading to Brooklyn. Towers that tall are hard to come by even in Manhattan, and there aren’t any plans to build anything that large in any other borough yet.

But there’s plenty of demand for a super-tall residential tower in Brooklyn—and now, one of the developers who has nurtured Manhattan’s Billionaire’s Row has the air rights to build something as tall as the Empire State Building in downtown Brooklyn.

Some of the buildings going up lately are completely unimaginative. I had a couple friends go into architecture and the designs they were able to come up in high school in their sleep were 100 times better than these glass boxes that are passing for design these days.

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Some of the buildings going up lately are completely unimaginative. I had a couple friends go into architecture and the designs they were able to come up in high school in their sleep were 100 times better than these glass boxes that are passing for design these days.

 

Did you see big burst of development that is planed in the coming years for that part of Brooklyn?

 

http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2015/08/18/brooklyn_will_get_22000_new_apartments_in_the_next_4_years.php

 

According to the Brooklyn New Development Report from the data gurus at City Realty, Brooklyn is about to see a huge surge of new residential development. This is not exactly shocking news, but the numbers themselves are still interesting: 22,000 new apartments are on track to introduced to the market by the end of 2019, with almost half of them being built in Downtown Brooklyn (6,400 new units) and Williamsburg (4,300 new units). Not only will the "crush of [new] buildings with 20 or more units" bring a huge amount of apartments to the borough, but it will also dramatically change the Brooklyn skyline.

 

Some of the Brooklyn listings in that general area are off the charts.

 

http://streeteasy.com/building/one-brooklyn-bridge-park/1216b

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http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/08/18/winter_weather_preview_thanks_to_el_nino_we_know_what_s_coming.html

 

According to this site

 

The seasonal weather outlooks for this fall and winter will be some of the most accurate ever issued.

 

There’s good and bad news for Boston and other East Coasters. It almost certainly won’t be as cold as last year in the Northeast, but fierce Nor’easters could be commonplace, bringing a return of heavy snowstorms.

 

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Brooklyn may join the 1000+ foot skyscraper club.

http://www.citylab.com/housing/2015/08/brooklyn-may-join-the-super-tall-skyscraper-club/400592/

A skyscraper more than 1,000 feet tall might be heading to Brooklyn. Towers that tall are hard to come by even in Manhattan, and there aren’t any plans to build anything that large in any other borough yet.

But there’s plenty of demand for a super-tall residential tower in Brooklyn—and now, one of the developers who has nurtured Manhattan’s Billionaire’s Row has the air rights to build something as tall as the Empire State Building in downtown Brooklyn.

This is not techincaly correct. There is a project in Long Island city that is over 1000' too
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Looks a lot better than the Brooklyn proposal.

 

That part of Brooklyn is growing so fast that Prospect South is becoming the new suburbs for a house with a yard as people are looking SE. I believe Boardwalk Empire filmed not to far from this location.

 

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The building explosion in LIC and Astoria is remarkable.

The whole area by the Long Island sign in LIC has become a new city with skyscrapers, beautiful parks, beautiful water front activities and high end buildings.

What a change.

The regular wealthy need somewhere to live. Manhattan is becoming so expensive that it's only really for the ultra rich and foreign investment money. I doubt anyone lives in one 57 or 420 park ave full time
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So jealous of that cold front that hit the plains and midwest.

It's actually supposed to come through here and stall just south of us and finally bring some rain. The high tomorrow might stay below 90!! :thumbsup:

 

The 100s have subsided for now, we have a daily high range around 97-99 now. This summer needs to end-pronto. 

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