OHNY Report: Double Your Eco-Friendly Pleasure

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We stopped by the OHNY event at 453 Pacific Street to check out what will be upon completion the first buildings in New York City to be certified by the American Lung Association's Health House program. Until a fire gutted it on New Year's Eve in 1980, the building was home to laundry business. Going forward, the facade will be preserved while two new 3-bedroom townhouses--one with an entrance on Nevins and one with an entrance on Pacific--are created. Architect Tony Daniels, working with GreenStreet Construction, will be using mucho recycled, salvaged and sustainably harvested materials in the project. Solar panels on the roof and efficient radiant floor heating will also be employed. A publication called Natural Home Magazine will be tracking the building's progress over the upcoming months. Unfortunately, it seems to be one of those mags that doesn't like to put its content on the web, so maybe we'll have to follow it ourselves.
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Thanks for the plug, Brownstoner! For more information about the American Lung Association Health House program, please visit our website at www.HealthHouse.org. The are more Health Houses under construction in Balaston Spa, NY, and a model home was built to our guidelines in Rochester, NY about a decade ago. This is the first Health House project ever attempted in the NYC area.

Bob Moffitt
Communications Director
American Lung Association Health House

Posted by: Bob from ALAMN at October 9, 2006 1:15 PM

Asked a prior owner in (circa) 1982 if I could buy this building. Was asked, 'what are you going to do with it?' Said, 'renovate and live in it.' Told, 'no, I am only going to sell it to someone who is going to use it in a way that helps the community.' Wouldn't having someone living in a viable building for the past 25 years helped the community a lot more than keeping it vacant all this time?

Posted by: Anonymous at October 9, 2006 2:32 PM

It is a shame the building had to sit vacant, but now both visions are merging together -- someone will be living in the building and it will also help the community as an example of a cleaner, greener and healthier home in the heart of the Brooklyn. We hope others will notice and join the green (and healthy) building wave.

Posted by: Bob from ALAMN at October 9, 2006 3:30 PM

Um... how can a building with parking in it possibly be considered green? Any encouragement of driving (and we all know that easy parking means more driving) is an ecological no-no that no amount of green roofing or whatever can make up for. I hope that I'm just misreading the drawing.

Posted by: anon at October 9, 2006 4:48 PM

Only hybrid cars will be allowed in that garage....

Posted by: Anonymous at October 9, 2006 6:35 PM

I guess anon 4:48 is right. It is not really a green building because there are a couple of parking spaces. However, we provided them because: somehow the developers have to make a profit building this, we needed the parking spaces for zoning, and we designed them so that they could be adapted easily to non-automotive use - art studios, bicycle storage, or whatever.

Thanks for your coverage, Brownstoner. I think that Greenstreet may be blogging the construction process as well.

Posted by: Tony Daniels at October 9, 2006 9:15 PM

I have been very impressed by this develpor who has been so good at coomunicating their plans for this site. The City should should require all developers to do this.

Posted by: Anonymous at October 9, 2006 9:27 PM

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