Norah Jones' Windows Coming In
As a reader pointed out, workers have started the process of putting in those controversial windows on the side of Norah Jones’ Cobble Hill house. That’s it, there goes the neighborhood! Norah Jones Cuts Back on Her Windows [Brownstoner] Cobble Hill Neighbors Irked by Norah Jones’ Windows [Brownstoner]
As a reader pointed out, workers have started the process of putting in those controversial windows on the side of Norah Jones’ Cobble Hill house. That’s it, there goes the neighborhood!
Norah Jones Cuts Back on Her Windows [Brownstoner]
Cobble Hill Neighbors Irked by Norah Jones’ Windows [Brownstoner]
1. Quote:
It’s not like it is something completely off the wall, it’s just windows…..
Posted by: STARGAZER 12:07 PM
LOL and QOTD
2. Then Minard gets to the structural issue here (quote):
as anyone who is familiar with these houses knows, the sidewalls hold up the floor joists, however the joists do not reach the walls where the chimneys are. The loads from those joists are picked up by a lateral beam and distributed to the joists on either side of the chimney. The chimneys are one of the structural weakpoints of most historic rowhouses. In this picture it looks like the new windows are being cut out from the bearing wall on either side of the chimneys. Where are loads being redirected? The chimney masonry? This looks so perilous. All the loads are being channeled into either a very thin area between the window and the chimneys or perhaps to the chimneys themselves. I hope someone really thought about this. The LPC does not look into those issues, it is up to the Department of Buildings to make sure the work will not cause a collapse.
Posted by: Minard Lafever at 1:13 PM
Minard, thanks again for your knowledge.
if norah jones does not wish to invite the public’s gaze into her private life then guess what? she shouldn’t be adding seven large windows on the side of her house!
11217 is very sweet trying to protect our local celebrities. Totally daft, but sweet.
“I hope Mr. b has learned a lesson here”
What lesson needs to be learned here? That people are sensitive at the mention of a celebrity. I guess all the TV shows, newspapers, magazines should learn a lesson also and never mention celebrities.
“does not post it again as the “Norah Jones House” so that it doesn’t generate excessive posts and page views.”
um, yeah right. Hello.
I’d love to follow the progress of this.
I hope Mr. b has learned a lesson here and does not post it again as the “Norah Jones House” so that it doesn’t generate excessive posts and page views.
“Would Brownstoner like it if some other blog posted pictures of his house?”
If I recall Mr. B STARTED this blog with pictures of the house he bought and renovated!
If Mr. B posted my apt. (not that it’s worthy of discussion) and real name, I wouldn’t care. Why? Cause it’s great exposure for me.
They aren’t above anything else, ET.
If this were your house, Mr. B would either use the word “a poster” or “Expert Textpert”
He wouldn’t be announcing your REAL NAME in conjunction with this. The ONLY time names are mentioned is when it’s a celeb and THAT IS WRONG!!
Dave, I really don’t give a crapola. Not sure why I got into this ‘discussion’.
Just sick of people thinking that celebrities are above everything else and need not to be mentioned. Believe me, if ‘Norah Jones’ was irked by all this discussion about her windows and her name used in the media regarding these windows, her publicist would be on it. They’d contact Mr. B and request, threaten and do whatever else publicist do.
NORAH JONES BOUGHT A HOUSE IN COBBLE HILL AND IS PUTTING IN SIDE WINDOWS.
Big Fucking Deal that it’s Norah Jones!
Please, let’s get over ourselves already.
We actually know what Norah Jones thinks about her home being photographed and shown; she doesn’t like it. The New York Post showed us that.
And in answer to that, ET, now seems like a good time to end my private, long-running joke.
Bjork maintains a punishing tour schedule with more than 250 days on the road, capped with several outdoor stadium concerts every year in Brazil, Scotland, Australia, and her native Iceland, performing in front of as many as 90,000 persons.
Posted by: infinitejester at September 28, 2009 1:29 PM
However Norah does play to packed houses abroad and generally maintains a punishing tour schedule of 250+ days on the road. She is often a headlining, festival-closing act in such places as Scotland, Brazil, Australia, and Italy, often performing before 80,000+ people.
Posted by: infinitejester at November 19, 2009 2:03 PM