Soundproofing Question

Another lurker here agreeing with long-time reader. I also agree that The What isn't the problem; it's more the neighborhood-in-their-nicknames clique repeatedly attention-whoring each other. They've made this place into Fark Jr.

While I'm being so agreeable, I too think that doing away with anonymous posters actually lowered the quality of comments here.

Posted by: deadnancy at December 16, 2008 8:59 AM in response to A Thought on Comments

I'll take 'high on crack' for four million, please, Alex.

Savage enough?

Posted by: deadnancy at September 23, 2008 1:33 PM in response to House of the Day: 304 Union Street

I did find a baby cockroach at the bottom of my Thai iced coffee recently at the Thai Cafe in Greenpoint.

I'd say my stomach turned at the discovery.

Posted by: deadnancy at September 17, 2008 10:23 AM in response to New York's Dirtiest Restaurants

They hate our freedoms!

Posted by: deadnancy at September 12, 2008 11:04 AM in response to Friday Links

The What: "...911, What a joke...."

Indeed. They be laughin' at ya while you're crawlin on your knees.

Posted by: deadnancy at September 12, 2008 10:47 AM in response to Housing Crisis Will End on June 30, 2009

They've not actually collided anything in the Large Hadron Collider yet. They just run some protons through the series of tubes...

Posted by: deadnancy at September 11, 2008 12:31 PM in response to Inside Third & Bond: Week 53

I'm not really anti-development, but I'm definitely anti-Gehry. Is there some group I might join?

Posted by: deadnancy at September 10, 2008 10:17 AM in response to Plans to Break Ground on Yards, But What About Phase II?

Feh. There's no white people hostility like old Greenpoint Pole white people hostility. Forget 'hello'; you're lucky if they don't talk about what an ass you are to each other in Polish right in front of you.

Posted by: deadnancy at September 9, 2008 11:40 AM in response to Quote of the Day

Ach! You're right, wasder.

No offense to Eak...

Posted by: deadnancy at September 5, 2008 12:43 PM in response to Night Falls on Astroland

If there's landmarking to be done, Bump Your Ass Off and Shoot the Geek should not be ignored.

Posted by: deadnancy at September 5, 2008 10:26 AM in response to Night Falls on Astroland

You have a lot of nerve making fun of Ms. Palin. It's God's will that we drill in Alaska!

Pray for the pipeline!

Posted by: deadnancy at September 4, 2008 3:41 PM in response to Inside Third & Bond: Week 52

"...why can't real estate harassment be defined?"

I know this one!

It's because bitter renters are parasites, right?

Oh wait... Curbed is in the other tab...

Posted by: deadnancy at August 19, 2008 11:18 AM in response to The Battle Between Landlords and Tenants Begins

Ayn Rand references: they're doing it wrong...

Posted by: deadnancy at August 18, 2008 10:42 AM in response to The City's Most Prolific Architect

Requiring registration to comment was supposed to do what again?

Posted by: deadnancy at August 11, 2008 2:16 PM in response to Monday Links

#7 for the win.

First, 'green' is rapidly becoming a cliche when used in the context of real estate marketing. (Strike 'rapidly becoming' if you're more cynical than I am.)

Second, a logo works best as a unique identifier rather than some sort of shorthand. You mention Apple, Target and Nike, and these are good examples. These logos also don't try to give any 'clues' as to what the company or product does. (Computers aren't fruit; a target doesn't reference discounts, and that swish is abstract. At most, two of the three tie in to the name of the company, but not what they do.) They are simple, easily-identified glyphs.

If you're really bent on 'green'/nature/environment, you're already close to a bird in flight allusion with #7. Just rotate it 45 degrees to the left...

Posted by: deadnancy at August 7, 2008 12:38 PM in response to Inside Third & Bond: Week 48

So is Yampolsky saying black people don't like music, or that hipsters can't swim?

I'm very confused.

Posted by: deadnancy at August 1, 2008 10:15 AM in response to Draining the Pool of its Party

"polemicists comments are revolting."

It's like Captain Obvious made a cocktail out of LOL and awesome...

Make it a double!

Posted by: deadnancy at July 29, 2008 12:13 PM in response to Condo of the Day: 255 Eastern Parkway, #C16

Hm. I should have done my research first. Here's a charming place in Arkansas with central air, big yard, two-car garage and a barn for $16.5k...

http://fayar.craigslist.org/rfs/766083760.html

My head asplode.

Posted by: deadnancy at July 25, 2008 12:16 PM in response to Fed Bailout Bill: Any Piece of That Pie for New Yorkers?

"...a federal tax credit of $7,500 or 10 percent of the home purchase price (whichever's smaller)."

Wait...what?

Whichever's smaller?! How many people are buying $70,000 homes?

And how many people are buying $70,000 homes who can't make the $400 mortgage payment?

Posted by: deadnancy at July 25, 2008 10:19 AM in response to Fed Bailout Bill: Any Piece of That Pie for New Yorkers?

Thanks everyone! Lots to think about now... Luckily the unit next door is the model, and still unoccupied, so experiments can be done.

And nice to still see some guests!

Posted by: deadnancy at July 23, 2008 4:55 PM in response to Soundproofing Question

But the government has to help Taggart Transcontinental! We need trains!

Posted by: deadnancy at July 23, 2008 12:43 PM in response to Mortgage Rates on the Rise

Also: fight on, #666 rebellion! To freedom!

Posted by: deadnancy at July 16, 2008 12:54 PM in response to Federal Probation Officer Defends Proximity to St. Ann's

10:58, I'm a little confused. How does one come to *deserve* peace of mind? I would also like to claim my right to calm, happy thoughts...

Posted by: deadnancy at July 16, 2008 12:50 PM in response to Federal Probation Officer Defends Proximity to St. Ann's

Oh, and this:

In the same way you can't have Love Canal with the LOVE, you can't have a Superfund without the SUPER!

Posted by: deadnancy at July 14, 2008 10:20 AM in response to Pols on Newtown: Superfund Us!

As a Greenpointer, I think we should show a little pride in our poisoned creek. I'm thinking of Brazil boasting that the deforested Amazon beat the Sahara as the world's largest desert in Ignacio de Loyola Brandao's 'And Still the Earth'...

Posted by: deadnancy at July 14, 2008 10:11 AM in response to Pols on Newtown: Superfund Us!

4:15: C'mon now. It's been like 60 years since Greenpoint last exploded.

The What: You can see my house in that movie!

Posted by: deadnancy at June 19, 2008 4:20 PM in response to Only a Matter of Time Before Greenpoint is Burg-ified?

Thanks, 12:27. I thought I'd gone too far with 'interweb' to get a bite. Still, trolling a troll is like wrestling a pig...

I'm back to lurking now, only making ironic comments about our oil spill in Greenpoint posts.

Posted by: deadnancy at June 19, 2008 12:40 PM in response to Three Brooklyn Winners on AMNY's Most-Fugly List

I'm engaging Biff and Dave. Right now!

You guys are so cool! I mean: using sockpuppets to troll a messageboard?! Freakin' AWESOME!!! I want to party with YOU!

You are true pioneers of the interweb! Keep up the good work! Ignore the haters! They just don't have the energy and creativity you do! They're also jealous! Keep on keepin' on!

Posted by: deadnancy at June 19, 2008 12:18 PM in response to Three Brooklyn Winners on AMNY's Most-Fugly List

What the hell do we have a world's-largest oil spill for if it's not doing its job of keeping us de-Burg-ified? I notice the sewage plant and poisoned creek are similarly slacking lately.

Very disappointing.

Posted by: deadnancy at June 19, 2008 11:30 AM in response to Only a Matter of Time Before Greenpoint is Burg-ified?

Greenpoint does get the occasional stench, but it always seems to be worst when the wind's blowing east. What's across the river in Manhattan that's so rank? It's got to be pretty fierce to compete with the sewage plant and the Newtown Creek...

And speaking of stink, I think this is the first Scarano building I've ever seen that actually fit the location. It's unsettling.

Posted by: deadnancy at April 3, 2008 5:47 PM in response to Condos of the Day: 118 Greenpoint Avenue

'...other projects in the works over in Greenpoint'???

That article's over two years old. As far as I know, Fischer's 15-story 60 Commercial Street tower, listed on his site as being completed last year, hasn't been started.

Here's hoping his equally ugly 200 Franklin Street finger and 50 Greenpoint Ave NJ office-park-looking condos (both completion: 2008) also get left in the rendering stage.

We've already got a Scarano Fedders house for old folks; no more starchitecture, please.

/Sorry about the threadjack...

Posted by: deadnancy at March 13, 2008 1:58 PM in response to Development Watch: 23 Caton Place

This would be the same Avalon involved with all those soulless towers in Long Island City, right?

http://www.queenswest.com/riverview/pictures

Posted by: deadnancy at October 17, 2007 10:31 AM in response to So That's What Avalon Myrtle Will Look Like!

Greenpoint's mighty stench will be to the soulless Scaranos and Fischers trying to infiltrate our neighborhood what General Winter and Colonel Mud were to the Nazis during their invasion of the Soviet Union in World War II...

Posted by: deadnancy at October 11, 2007 11:02 AM in response to Thursday Links

"If you're going to facilitate the violation of building codes, probably better not to advertise the fact to someone walking in off the street."

And yet in one Scarano building I visited, they played it up like a bonus. Several condos actually had two completely separate spaces, each with a door to the common hall. The broker seemed excited to tell me about all the extra space they managed to offer for the low low price of having to knock down a wall to connect the place before I could move in! They even designed it that way for my convenience! And then the basement had a drop ceiling that actually intersected a glass door to the back yard at about eye level (the center of the floor was lower than the sides). I'd get the full door back after I tore out and raised the ceiling. Just a little fun with the building inspector! Nudge nudge; wink wink...

And the same broker stopped returning my calls when I asked how many illegal Scarano 'fixes' would be needed in another place she wanted to show me. My bad, discussing open secrets I suppose.

Posted by: deadnancy at October 4, 2007 10:36 AM in response to 326 State Street: Fudging the Mezzanines

The inflation calculators I found show 1888 prices of $30k and $60k to be about $650k and $1.3 million today.

Sweet deals, really.

Posted by: deadnancy at September 27, 2007 2:59 PM in response to Some levity--The More Things Change...

"All 277 underground stations in the subway system are to be wired for cellphone use..."

Because if anything's more awesome than the screeching brakes of arriving trains, it's people trying to talk over the screeching brakes of arriving trains on their cell phones.

Posted by: deadnancy at September 20, 2007 2:24 PM in response to Thursday Links

As I'm looking to buy something in Greenpoint (after renting for 13 years), I'm really getting a kick out of this article.

/ G train FTW!
// Which message board is this again?

Posted by: deadnancy at September 18, 2007 12:13 PM in response to Risky Business in Some Brooklyn Nabes?

1:53: "I have to believe that lack of proximity to a train other than the G has to impact the prices that can be got for these houses."

I wish that idea were true for Greenpoint...

Posted by: deadnancy at September 6, 2007 2:49 PM in response to Kodachrome Building Open For Business

Herbert,
It looks to me that you built a triple leaf wall and that is why you think that the Green Glue is taking a year to cure. It probably cured within the first 30 days, but when you added the resilient channel over the first layers and then put more layers on top of that you created a small air pocket and that is why you can still hear some of those sounds. If you could open up your wall and take out those "resilient bars" you would have a better performing wall.

Posted by: SPC at October 21, 2008 3:51 PM in response to Soundproofing Question