LPC Will Not Reconsider Norah Jones Decision
“Despite pleas for reconsideration, the city’s Landmark Preservation Commission has decided not to give Grammy Award-winning recording artist Norah Jones’ worrisome window proposal on her Cobble Hill home another look.” – Courier Life
She must be gutting the interior because otherwise I don’t see how she could put that many new windows in the sidewall.
She will also need to install sprinklers above the new windows as they are lot-line windows. They will also need to be fire-rated sash. That is probably why more people don’t do this.
It reminds me of the scene from Mommy Dearest when Faye Dunaway in her Crawford shoulder pads and eyeborws says to her architect who is remodeling her new Park Avenue apartment: “damn the cost! put the windows there where they should be”
she’s got above average talent, but on her first album the band and the production quality were crap. The musicians must have been friends, not professionals. You could go to the village any night and find a jazz combo that could have supported that music much better. There were gaps in energy, intonation problems, people sounding like they didn’t know what to play next, form/chord changes that didn’t belong, etc… when you go through pop music channels to release music that’s supposed to be the “new ella”, it kind of insults real jazz people, who do it a lot better and work at it for decades, but don’t have famous dads.
I’m ok with the windows.
Minard: It will be interesting to watch the work. If I don’t see steel lintels coming in then there’s going to be trouble!!!!
Boomshakalaka
She better have a good structural engineer figuring our how to cut that many holes in her house’s bearing wall. These houses are pretty fragile, you can’t take too many bricks out from under too many other bricks.
I think four or five new windows on the sidewall should be enough to let in plenty of light, if that is what she is after.
Man I wish my nosy neighbor (whoever narked me to DOB) would get their come-uppance like this. Boo hiss to nosy neighbors.
but as I said on other thread yesterday…Don’t all these celebs keeps the drapes and blinds closed all the time anyway?
I like Norah Jones. I think she is extremely talented, if limited in scope. Beautiful crooning.
And take THAT, neighbors with nothing better to complain about.
Sadly, Nora Jones will have more windows from which to watch her envious and litigating prone neighbors.