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October 22, 2009
Re-upholsterer for Old Settee
I have a heavy, old ( 1910-1920) flat back, roll arm settee that was purchased at the 1966 contents auction of the soon to be demolished Hotel Astor ( Times Square area ). It needs to be refreshed. (Unfortunately, it was first recovered in the late 60's). It also needs repair to one of its wooden legs, which is begining to split. I am not sure of the exact style but have seen similar ones on the antiques roadshow. ( Imperial, possibly?) Does anyone know of a reputable reupholsterer in the Bay Ridge up through Park Slope area. The gentleman our family used for many years is now deceased. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Sorry no photo , it's in storage.
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G10_ I did misread, I thought you were looking at Co-ops. Condos are a whole different ball game...yes, you will receive a deed as in real property, not a certificate of shares... Good Luck!
Posted by: Crescent Hill at October 26, 2009 4:22 PM in response to Open Thread
G10- Now is the time to make lowball offers. After you do that, as you noted be concerned with the reserve fund and/or investments of the corporation as well as the existing mortgage note, if any. Be keenly aware of the percentage of your overall shares in the corporation and ask for a copy of the proprietary lease ( Rulebook) to review prior to more serious consideration. All of the above will help in making a well informed, happy cooperator out of you.
Posted by: Crescent Hill at October 26, 2009 4:05 PM in response to Open Thread
Sorry Bxgrl- Kind of done w/ you for today....nice try though.
Posted by: Crescent Hill at October 26, 2009 3:55 PM in response to Open Thread
your investment decisions on that should be based upon age and point of retirement.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at October 26, 2009 3:19 PM
Best advice yet for G10. Plus reading up will not hurt- A few years back a senior manager, John Brennan of Vanguard, wrote a book called " Common Sense on Mutual Funds", consult this book and you will not be disappionted.
Posted by: Crescent Hill at October 26, 2009 3:26 PM in response to Open Thread
Posted by: bxgrl at October 26, 2009 2:18 PM
Like I said, your number I have got. And you do not disappiont... I was waiting for one of those remarks to be attributed to me ( and you know which one) and you came through like I knew you would....
and Montrose, that's OK, I'm cool with not being cool.
Posted by: Crescent Hill at October 26, 2009 2:29 PM in response to Open Thread
And I will always speak out against ignorant, venal comments,Posted by: bxgrl at October 26, 2009 1:41 PM
You must talk to yourself all day long.
Posted by: Crescent Hill at October 26, 2009 2:06 PM in response to Open Thread
Posted by: denton at October 26, 2009 1:45 PM
Denton- Your post is very telling. I can't believe you even posted that non-sense theory and capped it off by saying Giuliani aids and abets riots...
Like I said , the discussion may take a petty turn, but it just ran off the road.
Posted by: Crescent Hill at October 26, 2009 1:54 PM in response to Open Thread
Posted by: denton at October 26, 2009 1:45 PM
Denton- Your post is very telling. I can't believe you even posted that non-sense theory and capped it off by saying Giuliani aids and abets riots...
Like I said , the discussion may take a petty urn, but it just ran off the road.
Posted by: Crescent Hill at October 26, 2009 1:54 PM in response to Open Thread
Posted by: dittoburg at October 26, 2009 1:23 PM
I sincerely hope that others do not fall into the deflective trap being set up here, I know I won't. The discussion of a Dinkins condoned boycott is being compared to isolated criminal acts/hate crimes which were not comparable ( not politically /officially condoned acts). It is unfortunate that the goal of the original baiting poster is being slowly met and some posts may take a petty turn.....
Discussion of why Dinkins failed the city and it's taxpayers does not equate to media hyped race related murders in NYC in the late 80's. That "telling" boycott and it's notorious activist perpetrators are indefensible. What happened to that store owner was an abomination.
Posted by: Crescent Hill at October 26, 2009 1:42 PM in response to Open Thread
Why asssume the worst about them and the best about the Korean grocer?
Posted by: bxgrl at October 26, 2009 12:13 PM
I am assuming nothing.
Posted by: Crescent Hill at October 26, 2009 12:38 PM in response to Open Thread
Bxgrl/ Montrose- Everything I said is true and I stand by it all, Dinkins and his failed record deserve to be bashed. In all honesty I can't recall the details of these other incidents you seem to be quite familiar with. Were they backed by City Hall and condoned by the mayor...as was the daily torture and ruination of the Korean immigrant who was driven to insanity....
Discussing a politically condoned boycott of the late 80's .... Bxgrl references a modern day hoodlum named Nick Manucci?? and how is this related to the boycott discussion, nice try.
Posted by: Crescent Hill at October 26, 2009 12:26 PM in response to Open Thread
I think the "liesure class" remark is totally out of line, btw.
But Montrose, how could they afford to show up and boycott day after day... it was the question all hardworking taxpaying New Yorkers were asking then..
It's not out of line...attempting to defend that boycott is out of line.
Posted by: Crescent Hill at October 26, 2009 11:57 AM in response to Open Thread
I would say you are either in serious denial or you suffer from a problem of perception.
Posted by: bxgrl at October 26, 2009 11:41 AM
Nice attempt at deflecting the discussion, but it won't work here, not on me , because your number my dear I have got. Your sterotypical petty baiting is old news. We are discussing a politically condoned boycott/event not isolated criminality of hoodlums.
Posted by: Crescent Hill at October 26, 2009 11:54 AM in response to Open Thread
Benson- Thanks alot. Did you have to mention Ruth Messinger before lunch....now I am also recalling Margaret Hamilton's most well known role....
That boycott was officially permitted harrassment led by a well known convict who was a violent and dangerous radical. It is a mark on Dinkins failed record that can never be justified or explained away. He will NEVER live it down. The fact that the repeated harrassment by the convicted radical and his seemingly "liesure class" followers, who showed up day after day to protest, I guees due to independent wealth/income of some kind??, was condoned by Dinkins led to the ruination of a hardworking, taxpaying immigrant & his family.
Posted by: Crescent Hill at October 26, 2009 11:35 AM in response to Open Thread
Dinkins tenure was a disaster and a biased Times article cannot help him or his failed record. I recall the old City Hall Park under David Dinkins, prior to the Giuliani refurbishments. The park was a symbol of Dinkins malaise , filthy, dangerous and unkept. One thing to Dinkins credit, however, is that under him the Downtown Manhattan homeless population was somewhat well groomed. Reason being that they would bath in the City Hall fountain on a daily basis. I recall one afternoon a citizen of liesure approached the fountain with a bar of soap and a scrub brush, waded into the fountain and began his bathing ritual in front of hundreds of lunching downtown workers. He methodically lathered up , shampooed , rinsed and repeated. He was by far the most hygenic vagrant in all of Manhattan. Dinkins really did "clean up" downtown.....Just another Dinkins memory...vote carefully.
Posted by: Crescent Hill at October 26, 2009 10:48 AM in response to Open Thread
CG- I get down to Fairway in Red Hook all the time. I will look into it. I am not sure how I want to proceed with respect to the fabric, but due to the style of the piece it can't be too contemporary... that mistake was already made. Thx-
Posted by: Crescent Hill at October 22, 2009 2:46 PM in response to Re-upholsterer for Old Settee
No worries THL, I recovered and years later dated a girl in Smithtown who had her own horse.
I miss that horse...
Posted by: Crescent Hill at October 22, 2009 2:41 PM in response to Open Thread
Gemini- Did not get to Roosevelt field too often, but I do remember those awful jeans.
Posted by: Crescent Hill at October 22, 2009 2:38 PM in response to Open Thread
THL- I stand corrected- " Nassau Shores"....
Posted by: Crescent Hill at October 22, 2009 2:34 PM in response to Open Thread
THL- Just a wild guess inspired by days gone by spent in Massapequa Shores. She took off in her little boat down the canal headed toward Unqua Point and I never saw her again...
Posted by: Crescent Hill at October 22, 2009 2:31 PM in response to Open Thread
THL- Something just "lacrossed" my mind...Was that you I saw at the Sunrise Mall in the summer of 1989? or was it at the Busy Bee? or Mc Cluskey's Steakhouse? or the Carvel on Merrick Road?
Posted by: Crescent Hill at October 22, 2009 2:19 PM in response to Open Thread
The drivers seat cloth on my 25 year old American made sedan is begining to tear... I blame the Unions.... and Dick Van Patten!
Posted by: Crescent Hill at October 22, 2009 12:59 PM in response to Open Thread
One of the ugliest post war buildings in Bay Ridge. 1st Fl. studio- sounds about right....
Posted by: Crescent Hill at October 22, 2009 11:46 AM in response to Brooklyn Sales: Under a Million
The net effect is a de-professionalized industry, underperforming schools, and suppressed wages for the excellent teachers (and inflated wages for the dead weight).
Posted by: tybur6 at October 22, 2009 11:06 AM
Agreed. Thx for the add'l insight. I will add that I believe NYC Public School teachers are not victims of the suppression of wages, but I suspect that those teaching outside of the UFT fueled propaganda scope are perhaps not adequately compensated. I know that those who teach in parochial schools are paid much less that union boosted public school teachers. Ripe with nepotism, corruption and old school anarchist teaching staff membership, the UFT needs critical reform. PS. Bloomberg ( grew up knowing many teachers, knows of all the old line corruption that went on years ago , ( as did Giuliani- once married to a teacher) Bloomberg is in the know, this is why they will stand with Thompson who will fall in line with the socialist myth they have worked so hard to perpetuate.
Posted by: Crescent Hill at October 22, 2009 11:34 AM in response to Open Thread
I am not surprised by the comments defending the UFT . The myth of the underpaid teacher is so pervasive in our society. Anyone who is "in the know" with regard to this group is fully aware that it needs reform. It is a socialist group with it's beginnings rooted in anarchism with strong ties to the Zionist movements in the 1st half of the 20th century. As a person who knows family & friends who are veteran overpaid ( extra pay for covering classes, afterschool programs, camps, latch key) , underworked ( frequent preps, frees, breaks all day long) , vacationing frequently teachers, my opinion of this groups union fueled chicanery is unwavering.
Posted by: Crescent Hill at October 22, 2009 10:43 AM in response to Open Thread
The reasons for unions hardly exist anymore.....
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at October 22, 2009 9:59 AM
So true... but it's not only the stereotypical blue collar worker's union that needs reform. Some of the worst corruption and socialist behaviors are found in the white collar unions such as the United Federation of Teachers. This group in particular should be reformed or perhaps abolished. The underpaid teacher is a socialist myth long perpetuated by the UFT and it's socialist core beliefs.
Posted by: Crescent Hill at October 22, 2009 10:15 AM in response to Open Thread
This place has lost all of it's old trim.
Posted by: Crescent Hill at October 21, 2009 2:44 PM in response to Condo of the Day: 153 Lincoln Place, #3C
THL- I don't think it's MTA property. All of those 20 x 100 buildings were/are privately owned. That's whats so strange about that place. In any event I would rather look at it in it's present "abandoned Ebinger's" condition than see it reincarnated into some of the other venues that line that avenue...next time I'm down that end I will try to notice the building address and run it on Property Shark to see what comes up...Who knows maybe the Ebinger's still own it.
Posted by: Crescent Hill at October 20, 2009 5:35 PM in response to Open Thread
CG- you were ok though, you had Stew Leonards!
Cresent- I took a picture of that exact sign for my dad. It's been empty for YEARS now. Wonder why.
Posted by: TownhouseLady at October 20, 2009 5:13 PM
I would assume the building is part of/ tied up in an estate or real estate trust. Since it is Prime Commercial, next to the subway entrance , it has greater value than other parcels around it, my guess is that whoever/whatever is holding ownership of it, is holding onto alot more than just that building.
Posted by: Crescent Hill at October 20, 2009 5:21 PM in response to Open Thread
CG- I believe they closed up for good in the early 70's. Perhaps you have come across an old Ebinger faded sign somewhere in Brooklyn, I know of one that still exists ( signage that is) in Bensonhurst, near the exit of the N train, near 65th street at 18th ave. About 10 years ago the signage of an old Donut Shop from the 70's that had closed up ,was removed and under it was the original large interconnected Ebinger tiles with the lettering/ shadowing clearly visible in Ebinger script. I believe this place still sits there unoccupied for some reason...
Posted by: Crescent Hill at October 20, 2009 5:07 PM in response to Open Thread
CG- Wow, I hope we both make it to those ages!
THL- I have been hearing about these Ebinger products my entire life. All cakes, danish etc. are compared to but not equal to the mighty Ebinger's. Back in the day they home delivered and my grandparents as well as great grandparents had an Ebinger account. They also sponsored the old Brooklyn/Queens Anniversay Day ( Brooklyn Day) parades that were very popular through the late 1950's. In fact till this day if my sister or I comment about a good chocolate cake and that comment is within earshot of "Miss Brooklyn Queens Anniversay Day 1959", we will quickly hear ....." Not as good as Ebinger's Blackout".. and if she is really on a roll she will remind us that Ebinger sponsored the float that they rode her down Atlantic Avenue on...this is a running joke in our family...somehow we do believe this is partly responsible for all of us being in therapy at one time or another... :)
Posted by: Crescent Hill at October 20, 2009 4:46 PM in response to Open Thread
THL, chocolate pudding from a box. Or butterscotch. Still warm. No whipped cream necessary (though either chilled Cool Whip or Ready Whip in the spray can would always do).
Posted by: CarrollGardened at October 20, 2009 3:51 PM
CG- Reminds me of something my grandmother used to make: Ice Box Cake- I recall it just consisting of chocolate pudding , Nabisco Grahams, sliced bananas and whipped cream layered in a baking dish, then put in the fridge to chill before being served. I have heard that this "cake" as well as Ebinger's Blackout were all the rage in mid -century Brooklyn.
Posted by: Crescent Hill at October 20, 2009 4:10 PM in response to Open Thread
We could use two fried eggs to go with all this bacon....
Posted by: Crescent Hill at October 20, 2009 2:27 PM in response to Open Thread
Class is not a choice.
Posted by: Joe from Brooklyn at October 20, 2009 1:22 PM
So you are saying that having no class was not your choice?
Posted by: Crescent Hill at October 20, 2009 1:28 PM in response to Open Thread
In the United States one CAN have to do with the other but NOT NECESSARILY.
Posted by: Joe from Brooklyn at October 20, 2009 1:14 PM
Agreed.
Posted by: Crescent Hill at October 20, 2009 1:18 PM in response to Open Thread
Donald Trump certainly had a very privileged upbringing, more so than any academic lace-curtain Catholic family in Brooklyn.
Posted by: Joe from Brooklyn at October 20, 2009 1:06 PM
LOL, privileged to you Joe perhaps. When Donald Trump was a little boy his dad would give him the key to the washing machines and dryers in the Trump buildings , so little Donald could collect the nickels out of them. I'm sure he did Joe.
Posted by: Crescent Hill at October 20, 2009 1:13 PM in response to Open Thread
By that reasoning Donald Trump must be underprivileged.
Posted by: Joe from Brooklyn at October 20, 2009 12:58 PM
Joe, Money does not buy class.
Posted by: Crescent Hill at October 20, 2009 1:03 PM in response to Open Thread
regional accents have much less to do with class.
Posted by: Joe from Brooklyn at October 20, 2009 11:39 AM
Joe-I have to disagree..the way one speaks and they way they are taught as children to intonate have everything to do with upbringing and class. My now retired mom, was a NYS Regent Scholar out of Bishop Mc Donnel Memorial HS., is also a college educated former "Miss Brooklyn" of the late 1950's. She grew up in Northern Brooklyn/ENY/Queens Border surrounded by Doctors , lawyers & business owning, management class Brooklynites. In all honesty ,she nor her old Brooklyn Dodger fan siblings have pronounced regional accents. Nor did my maternal grandparents.(She is the only one in fact who remains in Brooklyn.) The regional accent contrast between my mom's family/older generations as oppossed to that of my Dad's family/older generations was to me growing up , somewhat noticable. Just calling it as I saw it . I tend to agree that the definition of what is proper is very debatable. That's why I "end quoted" it in my original post.
Posted by: Crescent Hill at October 20, 2009 12:44 PM in response to Open Thread
Arkady is on the money with her 10:36 post, My Mom as well as her parents were born & raised in Northern Brooklyn, Cypress Hills/ENY. They have/had nearly undetectable Brooklyn accents. Even to this day, my mother teaches her own grandchildren "proper" speech, for instance I have overheard her stressing to the kids from time to time, the proper pronunciation of the word water... in contrast my dad's family were from Southern Brooklyn/Bay Ridge as well as Manhattan. They had a more pronounced Brooklyn accent to thier speech. I fondly recall a now deceased AMC Rambler driving Great Aunt of mine who lived in Bay Ridge from the 1930's until her death, she was born on the Lower East Side of Manhattan around the turn of the century. She spoke in an old NY/Old Bklyn way that I believe is hardly heard anymore and will be soon forgotten. Tiolet= terlert, Oil-=Erl, bathroom =bat-troom, tender= denda, refrigerator= ice box, hold on = hold the wire, and if you left the lights on , she would holler" Whadda ya think dis is-Luna Park!", Memories...Now if you have never heard of Luna Park, my apologies , you can look it up...I have someone on my wire.
Posted by: Crescent Hill at October 20, 2009 11:32 AM in response to Open Thread
THL- That dressing sounds good, I'll have to try it.
CG- Thats how I like my BLT as well, as did he. Hey, he made it to 93, even with all that mayo!
Posted by: Crescent Hill at October 19, 2009 5:12 PM in response to Open Thread
I happen to like the taste of sweeter Miracle Whip on certain cold cuts, however my preference is Helmanns Mayo, regular, not the dietetic version. Growing up my Mom only bought/used Helmanns, in fact my grandfather used Helmanns as his salad dressing of choice, often cutting iceberg lettuce into wedges, served with sliced beefsteak tomato and then spreading it all with mayo. I recall a few years ago that he once asked specifically for Helmanns in a restaurant. When he was told that only the typical salad dressing options were available to him , he was adamant that he be provided his mayonaise. He let our waitress know that he was nearing 90 years of age and was getting to NY and out to restaurants less and less. She brought him his mayo.
Posted by: Crescent Hill at October 19, 2009 4:40 PM in response to Open Thread
Kens- I'm guessing you mean you were/are in Bond Funds or combination bond funds...still a safe bet to have a portion of a 401K in Bonds..ie. 70/30,... 30% bond funds.
Posted by: Crescent Hill at October 15, 2009 10:32 AM in response to Open Thread
Glad you had a chuckle CG-
In truth, Dinkins was/is a very refined man. A true gentleman. Unfortunately he was the wrong man at the wrong time and the socio-economic fabric of the city began/continued to unravel. His term was a disaster for much of NYC and he is widely regarded/ remembered as an ineffective sub par mayor. I fear that Bill Thompson will bring forth much of Dinkins failed ideology. In contrast, Mayor Bloomberg is beholden to no man, and to no group. The choice needs to be made, and to me, Bloomberg is the only reasonable option.
Posted by: Crescent Hill at October 14, 2009 4:26 PM in response to Open Thread
Remember that pre-Giuliani, it was commonly said that NYC was an "ungovernable" city. You don't hear that much anymore.
Posted by: benson at October 14, 2009 3:41 PM
Memories:
"Joyce, Did you hear that the murder rate in NYC is at an all time high...but were OK, only my reputation has been killed. Now where is my white silk scarf?...hand me my Top Hat Dear , no, no, not the one with the bullet hole in it.
Posted by: Crescent Hill at October 14, 2009 3:58 PM in response to Open Thread
ENY- I am with you , I have never heard that expression before...it sounds like something out of Boys Town.
Posted by: Crescent Hill at October 14, 2009 3:41 PM in response to Open Thread
Vote carefully- Bill Thompson Jr. = Dinkins II.
Memories...
"Why Joyce, I heard they put that taxpaying Korean immigrant Shop Owner in an insane asylum today, between riots, I really should try to stop that boycott." ....now where are my tennis balls?
Posted by: Crescent Hill at October 14, 2009 3:32 PM in response to Open Thread
As noted Kens- Gross & Crimson are in the know.
If you have ever shopped at Century 21 or Rainbow Shops & several others, you are unknowingly contributing to exclusionary faith based programs as well as exclusionary "market making" real estate practices, which create ethnic/xenophobic nonsense transactions, as noted above on East 5th Street.
Posted by: Crescent Hill at October 14, 2009 3:11 PM in response to Last Week's Biggest Sales
Re: Posted by: benson at October 9, 2009 1:51 PM
Benson, LOL!
Posted by: Crescent Hill at October 9, 2009 2:09 PM in response to Open Thread
correction, "perceived"...
Posted by: Crescent Hill at October 9, 2009 1:48 PM in response to Open Thread
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sanitation can give a ticket too
Posted by: 5 COUNTY ALARM at October 29, 2009 9:40 PM in response to Dog Pooping in Front of House
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Posted by: skyroolove at November 16, 2009 11:22 AM in response to Re-upholsterer for Old Settee
In 1965 the late great Bill Buckley lost for NYC mayor running against John Lindsay as well as the aging Abe Beame. Buckley's loss to Lindsay paved the way for the Lindsay/ and eventual Beame decline years for NYC. Many longtime New Yorkers were concerned about what was to come for NYC after the "false" Republican Lindsay would take power. The decline began and by 1970 was in full swing. My grandparents who were Buckley backers did not care for Lindsay and vowed that if he lost they would soon enough leave the city of thier birth. In fact my grandfather was so anti-Lindsay he was thrilled that not one but two of his youngest daughters, who were students at LIU at the time were volunteering for Buckleys campaign. Buckley garnered a small percentage of the vote and lost. By 1969 my grandparents and many others like them were gone , never to again reside in NYC. By the mid 1970's they had sold off whatever property they still owned in Northeast Brooklyn and Queens and one they did not sell for sentimental reasons in ENY was burned to the ground in the late 70's. The decline that they so feared for Northeast Bklyn had ripened to it's full potential by the early 80's. I truly believe that the election of someone like Bill Thompson is comparable to what could be the begining of a period of stready decline for portions of NYC. Thompson is not the answer , his failed record speaks for itself. Bloomberg is no prize, he can be arrogant and a phony BUT he is the best choice of the two, as he is beholden to no man or group. Vote carefully.
Posted by: Crescent Hill at October 29, 2009 10:44 AM in response to Open Thread