Those Recycled Pine Benches at Brooklyn Bridge Park
Yesterday we told you about the wood that the Brooklyn Bridge Park Development Corporation is salvaging from the demolition of the Cold Storage Warehouse and turning into benches for the park. Well, today we’ve got a photo of the benches themselves that have been installed already along the promenade and pathways of Pier 1; more…
Yesterday we told you about the wood that the Brooklyn Bridge Park Development Corporation is salvaging from the demolition of the Cold Storage Warehouse and turning into benches for the park. Well, today we’ve got a photo of the benches themselves that have been installed already along the promenade and pathways of Pier 1; more will be fabricated and installed at Pier 6 as well. In addition, we have learned, salvaged timbers are being used to clad the gatehouses at entrances to Pier 1 and 6. Cool beans.
Demolition, Recycling Underway at Brooklyn Bridge Park [Brownstoner]
Benson,
Seem you are having trouble understanding yourself.
“The time and energy it took to salvage a readily-renewable resource?”
One cost assumption
“Most certainly more than milling new beams.”
comparison to first cost assumption.
= some editorial statement on the economics of the whole thing.
BC;
OK, I stand corrected on that point. Thanks.
“For a building built in the late 1800’s or early 1900’s in NYC??
Doubtful.”
Not at all, Benson. The peak of virgin longleaf pine timber cutting took place in the 1890’s-1910, as technology allowed for massive clear-cutting of the original forests. Most of the virgin longleaf pine forests ranging form Virginia to Florida were gone by the 1920’s. There’s a good chance that the timbers from this building came from those forests.
benson, you’re off-the-wall today.
You should tell us some day about your run-in with the big, bad, elitist, preservationist that turned you into such an
embittered anti-green.
benson- I called you names? Reread that post- not one. Your reading comprehension needs serious work.
Pig_Three;
You apparently are having trouble comprehending my statement. Read my statement carefully. “The time and energy to SALVAGE” (emphasis added to my original comment).
I look forward to your continued ad hominen attacks
> Do you suffer from short term memory loss?
Perhaps he bonked himself on the noggin during all that vigorous cane shaking?
Benson “I made NO comment about the economics of milling the wood”
Earlier Bensom “The time and energy it took to salvage a readily-renewable resource? Most certainly more than milling new beams.”
Do you suffer from short term memory loss?
Benson “I made NO comment about the economics of milling the wood”
Earlier Bensom “The time and energy it took to salvage a readily-renewable resource? Most certainly more than milling new beams.”
Do you suffer from short term memory loss?