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SiteNY: fabricators of cool – fabrications

We’ve learned of Site NY, a prop-and-set design house located, of course, in our home borough/county, Brooklyn/Kings. They make cool stuff for movies and tv and probably geeky people like us – but with more money. And there’s more – here are mysterious white cubes either taking hallucinogens – or giving birth, I’m not sure [...]

Missing dog: Maizie

A few weeks ago, we took an abandoned dog in, and then decided to keep her – and gave her the name Maizie. On Wednesday, someone opened our apartment door, and let both dogs out of the apartment and the building. A neighbor found our older dog, Zoe, outside the building Wednesday afternoon. Maizie is [...]

Pintchik added to CatonAvenue.com’s “Brooklyn’s Best” hardware stores

Pintchik, as always, outstanding. No surprise here: the staff are all knowledgeable, especially Thomas Marino and Jonathan in paints, where Pintchik excels; Everyone’s also polite and patient, an asset for the feeble-minded such as this writer; Of the items I checked, prices were the same as or lower than Lowe’s Selection of decorative hardware struck [...]

Most re-used, most beautiful cradle? And more from Mark Meyer woodworking

While we don’t go out of our way to promote people on the Mainland (you know, the 47 other states) – Mark Meyer’s trestle table, we thought, needed to be shown around. Especially because of this cradle, which he built for his daughter – and has been passed on, and has now been used by [...]


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