Very helpful clips.
Thanks MP and B-unit!
Really looking forward to the hot water boiler segments too.

Posted by: Forrestian at November 13, 2007 11:11 AM in response to Video: Anatomy of a Boiler Part 2

Brownstoner's opinion of this building has me totally confused... one month it's "great" and another it's "an incredibly 'fugly' building".
I think it looks a bit GDR/Soviet myself... but Ostalgia is cool sometimes, jah?

Posted by: Forrestian at March 25, 2008 1:27 PM in response to Kodachrome Goes Rental

Thanks for the ride in the Wayback Machine Mr.Peabody!
I walk by this building every day and the new station is about 75% FINISHED.

I'll try and grab you a pic tomorrow.
:)

Posted by: Forrestian at June 19, 2008 11:59 AM in response to Work Begins on Sunset Park Firehouse

Good points Bxgirl.

The current firehouse is actually on 5th ave and the majority of the time the engines have to rush down 51st to get onto the faster route, 4th ave.

I think this 4th ave location will be much more useful - perhaps there's a plan in the works for reuse of the current 5th ave firehouse.

The size and quality of this new firehouse looks really impressive in person. The fire-engine-red glazed brick facade they got up is a nice touch.

(You'd think Brownstoner was a bridge with all the trolls squatting down here.)

Posted by: Forrestian at June 19, 2008 6:17 PM in response to Work Begins on Sunset Park Firehouse

Sounds like Hindy wants to have his beer and drink it too.

Since the suds are brewed in Utica, they might as well move to Sunset Park, keep a beer garden space somewhere more accessible (like Williamsburg), and stop whining about "If we can’t find a place, then who can?".
I'm prone to thinking this Times article is Hindy's Opera, with the hopes a politico will step in and save them.

BB has created a cool "brand" by keeping one toe in Brooklyn, but Sixpoint Craft Ales is brewed here completely and trounces them across the board - and no I don't work for them. :)

Posted by: Forrestian at July 21, 2008 5:58 PM in response to Brooklyn Brewery Chief Bemoans Lack of Industrial Space