Brooklyn, Heights, NY (New York City)

[repair-man]

Toggle

Thanks for the posting the pictures and the info. Do post more sometime. It was a nice diversion from all the bad news lately.

My best friend (from high school) lives on Long Island. Moved there right out of school. He's a traffic engineer and works for the Dept of Transportation. I have probably visited 7 or 8 times but it's been about 5 years since the last time.

On my first visit I drove from Pittsburgh and got lost on Staten Island. Took 10 hours because I ended up in rush hour traffic. Anyway the first day he took me to see NYC. I told him I didn't just want to drive around but would rather walk so I could see everything better. Oh to be young and stupid. I was only 21 and obviously never saw a city bigger than Pittsburgh. I did get to go to the top of the Trade Center to look out the observation deck. But there is just so much to see. I loved it though. Now we are older and have families and just don't seem to have time anymore.

Your pictures bring back good memories.

Ed

 

[drmitch]

Thanks Toggle!

The Brownstones have always facinated me!

 

[jmm63]

Hey Toggle.... Thanks for the great pics. Brooklyn is a great and beautiful place.... you should visit Park Slope next. We lived there until 1999 in a beautiful 2 bed/2bath co-op right next to Grand Army plaza, steps away to Prospect Park, the Brooklyn Public Library, the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens, FABULOUS restaurants and shops of 7th ave , not to mention the architecture! Theres something to be said about living in a doorman building, but alas, the market went crazy and we were able to sell the co-op at a handsome price and buy this beautiful house we live in now. Now we hear our apartment has changed hands twice and the last time it sold for almost $900,000. Who knew.... anyway, the Slope is a definate place to visit next time.
take care
Jim

 

[toggleswitch]

Thanks everyone having a rough night and needed the boost.

HUGS,

Steve

 

[angus]

Jim - what building were you in while living in Brooklyn?

Funny thing is that I haven't lived in Brooklyn since 1967, but everytime I go there it feels like home. I can almost feel the presence of all my early friends and my aunts, uncles and cousins as I walk up and down those streets and avenues. I have been hard pressed to find warmer more caring people anywhere. We may sound funny - and no not all of us sound like Bugs Bunny, but the spirit is there......

 

[jmm63]

Angus (Tony?)... we lived on Plaza St West, "the Berkley", between Lincoln and Berkley, Did you know where the beautiful Montauk Club is... right next door....

 

[rickr]

Thank you for the fantastic photos Steve! New York is just breathtaking. No other place like it in the world.

 

[petek]

It's all very charming but Green Acres where I'd rather be and that's were I'm staying.
BTW in remembering the Patty Duke show, the Lane family sounded normal, quite unlike the Bunkers and the Nanny named Fran and Toggle who all seem to exhibit that NY speech impediment called "Elongated Dipthong". Why is that, are the people in the Heights immune, of a higher social order, inquiring minds want to know?
I'll just duck and run now.. LOL

 

[frontaloadotmy]

So I give up on the Watch Tower

Air conditioners; what are they?

 

[toggleswitch]

Friedrich.

IIRC they are now the only ones that come with such a support bracket (as seen attached to bottom).

BTW, In the old days AIRTEMP had a support that folded out and extended from the A/C's side "window-curtains" up to the bottom of the (open) double-hung window. IIRC AIRTEMP was made by General Motors and was VERY VERY quiet. Many lasted forever. Fedders got the name and killed the technology which had a conenser (outdoor) coil with a reverse air pattern of todays "stanbdard". But I digress.

[For our international friends, double-hung windows refers to two up-and-down window panes. Orignally these were counter-balanced with chains and weights hidden in the window frame.]

IIRC it was Benjamin Franklin who invented this type of window. I realized when visiting Europe that they are not seen too much outside of North America.


http://www.andersenwindows.com/serv...gename=AW/Page/awProductWindowSelector&c=Page

 

[foraloysius]

Correct, we have mostly casement windows that swing outward. In our neighbour country Germany most of them swing inward. Overhere you can still find double-hung windows in some older houses, mainly from the 18th and 19th century.

 

[toggleswitch]

Elongated dipthong. Luckily I know this is not a reference to stretched underwear.

The people in the heights are rather....er ...uh.. elitist and as with most who end up in Manhattan or this Manhattan satelite, are from elsewhere. (read: sick of suburbia.) And before I start WWIII--- I live in suburbia so there!

If there are any natives living int he Heights you can be sure they have eradicated any traces of their accent.

PS we don't all REALLY sound like Bugs Bunny. But can (toggle)switch it "ON" as needed.

after all--
Quote: And the Academy Award for best Dramatic roll goes to Toggle… (WINK)

 

[toggleswitch]

In Greece, at least, window screens are not too common and the inward swinging windows make for tough wwindow treatments (blinds, shades curtains, etc, unless mounted to the window itself.

There they also have these outdoor PVC plastic roll-ups that we visualize and see here as steel roll up gates on stores in big cities. They are pulle dup by a fabric "ribbon cord" that is indoors.

They filter light and air and are now available as storm-hurricane shutters (well at least in Puerto Rico, USA)

 

[toggleswitch]

TEXAS, LA Gulf Coast states this one is especailly for you.
(ABSLOUTELY not a joke and no offense intended please).

Click on "Rolling Shutters" for the ones I have seen in Greece and Puerto Rico

http://www.stormshutters.com/

 

[toggleswitch]

How cool is it that decorative shutters can be replaced with fucntinal ones (with the right hardware) and go back to serving their original storm-shutter purpose.

 

[westyslantfront]

Hi Steve. Thank you for the great pics. All looks familiar to me after having lived in New York first 45 years of my life. It will always be the greatest city in the world.

Ross

 

[toggleswitch]

It sticks with ya like dry mashed potatoes, doesn't it?

Met a Manhattanite now living in PA. She said "Once you leave Manhattan you are camping".

I don't know some, of us are campy in Manhattan as well.

 

[petek]

Airtemp? that was Chrysler me thinks not GM

 

[toggleswitch]

I stand corrected.

& Philco was ford.

 

[petek]

just don't let it happen again mister. We look to you for concise and accurate information.