Norah Window Watch: Five Down, Two to Go
Per Lost City, five out of seven windows have now been installed at Norah Jones’ new Cobble Hill townhouse. Earlier coverage here, here and here.
Per Lost City, five out of seven windows have now been installed at Norah Jones’ new Cobble Hill townhouse. Earlier coverage here, here and here.
IMBY…did it say who the contractors are??? I would love a geothermal system in Brookyn. But how do you dig to bury the pex lines??? By hand????
It’d be kind of awesome if she cut Fedders holes for every single one of those.
Forget the windows, bring on the plumbing porn. Her plans call for “new geothermal heating and cooling systems… basement well.. rooftop solar panels… IN GROUND SWIMMING POOL”
Stay tuned, FLH. If Mr. B were to unveil the end result at once it’d be far too dramatic to deal with.
Are they going to put any on the middle floor? Looks nice otherwise. What a tempest in a teapot.
Glad to see that we are being kept abreast of Windowgate.
Or is the Norahpocalypse?
My eyes! My eyes!I can see now why the neighborhood was so upset. This totally destroys the sightlines and the look of this wonderful old neighborhood. It’s ruined, I tell you! Ruined forever!
NOT.
What I wonder is: In new pseudo-row-house developments, why do they not design them with windows in the end wall to start with?? It seems so natural, yet the last house in the row often has zero windows just as if it were a party wall. Cheaper, I guess, but very counterintuitive.
This type of workmanship is rare in our borough. The usual job is a sloppy, mortar-splattered mess with not-quite-matching new brick. Here, it looks like they re-used the old brick and, miracle of miracles, matched the old mortar.
Brooklyn is a world contender in terms of bad mortar jobs. Most of the re-pointing work I see around town ranges from appalling to worse.
This is how masonry work should be done. Does anyone know who the contractors are?