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06 June 2013
SoHo buildings' economic domino effect
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I just read a super interesting article on Urban Omnibus -- Living Lofts: The Evolution of the Cast Iron District . This is one of those art...
02 September 2012
Florent.
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If you have never lived in New York, you may not be familiar with Florent. It was a 24-hour diner in the Meatpacking District, founded in 19...
19 April 2011
The Puck Building
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Over a year ago, I read American Psycho for the first time. A hundred or so pages in, I caught a mention of The Puck Building . I am usuall...
30 March 2011
The Door To Hell
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Mike sent me an IM one morning a few weeks ago, and I've been thinking of this thing ever since. [ source ] That's a crater in the ...
04 February 2011
Counter Space: Design and the Modern Kitchen
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I took the day off today, and set out for the MoMA bright and early for some much-needed inspiration. I didn't know what I would find, ...
20 November 2010
Art Historians, German Translators, Frankish Kings, and Scrooge McDuck
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A text message conversation with Brandi this morning about Disney characters led me down my second rabbit hole of the week. This one is abo...
16 November 2010
From The Turtles to 1800s Organs
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Tonight I had the intense urge to listen to You Showed Me by The Turtles: I was compelled to Google "circus organ" after thinking ...
06 January 2009
Talk about rent controlled.
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When I was visiting my parents over the holidays, my father clipped a WSJ article out for me. There is a housing settlement in Southern Ger...
30 June 2008
The Boston Molasses Disaster
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I have been to Boston once in my life; it was one of the stops in my "visiting colleges" trip of 1998. While doing some research l...
21 February 2008
Colonia Tovar
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When I was little, my mom told me a crazy story. This is the way I remember it, twenty or so years later (I actually called her just now to ...
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