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for some reason i was always better at ice skating than roller skating / roller blading. even tho every single time i ever ice skated (only twice) i sprained my ankle. one was on a lame class field trip to rockefeller center. wait now that i think about it, i think ive only ice skated once, but sprained my ankle maybe doing something else.
I used to love skating as a kid. I would take my skates and trudge through the forest to a swamp. The swamp was maybe a half mile long and a few hundred feet wide (just guessing) and snaked its way through the woods. In the middle of the swamp there was a stream about 10 feet wide or so. It was all level, so the stream was perfectly flat and it snaked its way through the swamp like a miniature Mississippi river. Whenever there had been a thaw and then a freeze without any snow that stream would be a half mile long winding skate path of perfect ice, smooth as glass, and I could just open all the stops and skate like hell from one side to the other down this perfect winding path. I never saw another skater there. Not even once.
BoreumHill, it’s the same thing. The LPC can individually designate a building, say for example, the Truslow House, in Crown Heights North, and then designate the entire area around it at a later date. Often individual landmarking protects a single building from development or tear-down, even while the LPC is contemplating designating a neighborhood in which it sits. A building has to really have some kind of real architectural and/or historic significance for that to happen, which the Truslow House has. This was also done with the Elkins House, also here in CHN, which was days away from being torn down, and was then individually landmarked. In this case, the Elkins house was the oldest house in CHN, with plenty of historic and architectural provenance, and worthy of saving.
Anyway, the protections and rules are the same. For an idea of what the designation looks like, take a look at the reports for Crown Heights North, or Prospect Heights, two of the newer districts. They are very detailed descriptions of each building, with a history of the development of the area, architects and significant residents, events and trends. If you’re into this stuff, it’s great reading.
Lechacal, skating is so much FUN. The way we used to skate proves that we live in a different era now (ala the litigious era we live in now as you mentioned re birthday parties). We used to go to a local pond and play these fierce games on skates (forms of Ring a leerio, tag, trying to knock people down – not me of course – stealing hats, sophisticated stuff like that), and we still went skating when the ice was thin (and fell in). Some of the kids even skated from ice floe to ice floe. It blows my mind how unsupervised we were so much of the time. But I guess that doesn’t count.
for some reason i was always better at ice skating than roller skating / roller blading. even tho every single time i ever ice skated (only twice) i sprained my ankle. one was on a lame class field trip to rockefeller center. wait now that i think about it, i think ive only ice skated once, but sprained my ankle maybe doing something else.
*rob*
I used to love skating as a kid. I would take my skates and trudge through the forest to a swamp. The swamp was maybe a half mile long and a few hundred feet wide (just guessing) and snaked its way through the woods. In the middle of the swamp there was a stream about 10 feet wide or so. It was all level, so the stream was perfectly flat and it snaked its way through the swamp like a miniature Mississippi river. Whenever there had been a thaw and then a freeze without any snow that stream would be a half mile long winding skate path of perfect ice, smooth as glass, and I could just open all the stops and skate like hell from one side to the other down this perfect winding path. I never saw another skater there. Not even once.
This was my swamp: http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=42.265996,-72.819453&spn=0.004105,0.013583&t=h&z=17
touche biff!
DeLepp, we did too. It was very wild fun. We skated at night too.
“donatella, I spent my whole winter on the ice in NJ. Day and night”
Now you just spend many evenings drinking gin on ice.
Thanks, MM!
donatella, I spent my whole winter on the ice in NJ. Day and night. Now I rarely see people. Kinda sad.
BoreumHill, it’s the same thing. The LPC can individually designate a building, say for example, the Truslow House, in Crown Heights North, and then designate the entire area around it at a later date. Often individual landmarking protects a single building from development or tear-down, even while the LPC is contemplating designating a neighborhood in which it sits. A building has to really have some kind of real architectural and/or historic significance for that to happen, which the Truslow House has. This was also done with the Elkins House, also here in CHN, which was days away from being torn down, and was then individually landmarked. In this case, the Elkins house was the oldest house in CHN, with plenty of historic and architectural provenance, and worthy of saving.
Anyway, the protections and rules are the same. For an idea of what the designation looks like, take a look at the reports for Crown Heights North, or Prospect Heights, two of the newer districts. They are very detailed descriptions of each building, with a history of the development of the area, architects and significant residents, events and trends. If you’re into this stuff, it’s great reading.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/html/forms/reports.shtml
Lechacal, skating is so much FUN. The way we used to skate proves that we live in a different era now (ala the litigious era we live in now as you mentioned re birthday parties). We used to go to a local pond and play these fierce games on skates (forms of Ring a leerio, tag, trying to knock people down – not me of course – stealing hats, sophisticated stuff like that), and we still went skating when the ice was thin (and fell in). Some of the kids even skated from ice floe to ice floe. It blows my mind how unsupervised we were so much of the time. But I guess that doesn’t count.