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Build It Forward With Eco Brooklyn

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Last week I visited the Eco Brooklyn house in Carroll Gardens and spoke with Gennaro Brooks-Church about his project. Well, ok, if it doesn’t look like Gennaro is talking to the camera, that’s because I piggybacked on a contractor’s job interview. Anyhoo, please excuse my lack of editing skills….still haven’t learned a thing.

All of the material used in this restoration was recycled! Crazy used stuff I’ve never been able to get my hands on, like sheetrock and plywood. This guy’s got connections, baby!

Part II will be a tour of the house, a work in progress. I’ve really gotta figure out how to edit that bit though.

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Coney Island Circa 1905

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I just swiped this video from Kinetic Carnival. It was too good to pass up for my own blog.
 
My Grandma Clara was a young girl living in Brooklyn around the turn of that century. I inherited her scrapbooks and have loads of images of the family spending time at their summer home in Cape May. This footage reminded me that I have to start scanning those photos!
 
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Jenny, I Got Your Number!

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Ain’t Twitter grand? How else would I have found out about the sale of one of the last remaining Jenny numbers? DIY Scene posted the ebay link to a DJ selling his company with the phone number 201-867-5309. With 6 days to go there are 123 bids at the time of this writing and the current price is up to $ 365,100.

For the price of a dime I can always turn to you, indeed.

We Love Reader Videos!

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Thanks to readers Kevin and Christina for sending us the video of their 1200 square foot Upper West Side apartment renovation. It’s taken them nearly a year to get to this point.A bit of the old cut and paste to finish off my cheater post:

The reason for the huge delay is the co-op board shot our plans down 2 times, and would not let us do what we wanted to do, which was add a 2nd bath. They won’t let us do “wet over dry” … we closed in Aug. ’07 and should be ready to move in after Labor Day. We have been renting in Harlem for a year (and now we love brownstone living, of course).

To answer your questions:

1. That stuff was only out there for about 20 mins. As I was filming the truck pulled up, and took it all away! The bags were mostly the old linoleum floor, the rolls were old wall to wall carpet.

2. Yes, we recycled a lot, we gave it all away. Some of the old kitchen cabinets went to someone in the building (they were in awful shape). The appliances went to the night watchmen (we don’t have doormen). He hauled it to his apt (stove, fridge, microwave, washer-dryer). There are still 3 old doors in the apt and they are going to bignyc.org soon.

We have tried wherever possible to save money by using recycled things. We are reusing the bedroom doors by stripping them; we are stripping the radiator covers too. We bought 1920s bath fixtures and a door from Demolition Depot on 125th Street (love that place). We bought a 1930s light fixture at auction (Doyle New York).

– Kevin and Chrissie

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