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childs not all first-rate
AFTER struggling to fix up a brownstone in Harlem for the last 16 months, Meyghan Hill, a model and actress, and her husband, Daniel Scarola, a ballroom dancing instructor, are thinking about giving up and moving out. But what may drive them away is not the neighborhood, which they have come to love, nor their four-family house, where they have painstakingly stripped a century of varnish and paint from doors and balusters, but the shock of a tax notice they received last month from the New York City Department of Finance.
The notice indicated that the taxes on their 19-foot-wide house, only $4,100 when they bought it, would be going up in July to about $23,600, a fivefold increase of $19,000 - more, they say, than they can possibly afford after paying their hefty mortgage. Right now, they have no tenants
monuments of passaic
video stream princeton lecture archive
via tesugen blog / lots of good science/art architecture (see previous schwarz post) poly sci and eno material in his archives
Wanted: Umberto Eco Quote On Architecture
I'm translating a text I've written into English, in which I'm quoting Umberto Eco from the Swedish translation of his out of print La struttura assente. In this book, Eco devotes several chapters to a discussion on semiotics and architecture. The passage I'm quoting, and would like the English translation of, can be found on the first page of the major chapter titled “Function and the Sign” (or something equivalent).
Here's my attempt at a translation:
Jeffrey Lewis History of Punk on the Lower East Side - Stream it in: Realaudio or MP3. It's a nine-minute tour de force tracking New York punk from Harry Smith to the New York Dolls
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