Architecture

"South Midwood" next.

Nice article to read as my father, soon to be 93, worked as an engraver at the American Numbering Machine Company right up to its closing in 1971. In fact my brother and I, barely 10 years old at the time, "helped" my father clear out/clean up parts of the factory when it closed. My father purchased some of the remaining machines.... Pantographs, surface grinders, lathes, etc as well as additional items and ultimately started his own small engraving company in Queens. He did hand engraving and machine engraving. He knew most of the names in the engraving business during that time period, Conrad being one of them. I would think he is one of the last, if not the last, remaining of the employees.

There is a house on Beverly between Argyle and Rugby that has ben transformed into a gaudy McMansion (its the orange colored one on the map of integrity). Best advertisement for doing the landmarking. Would hope that they still let the houses get funky paint colors like the orange and tourquoise one pictured. Finally, I would love to see the Greek revivals on Westminster and Cortelyou get restored - greek revivals with columns like that strike me as fairly unique in NYC.

Thank you for this detailed recap of the hearing on the Duffield Houses proposal, great coverage of the many complicated issues that were raised and discussed.