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Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com . By Stephen Brown for The Brooklyn Paper Well, it’s certainly more inviting than an over-priced studio in Park Slope.
Mary Mattingly, the avant-garde eco-provocateur, has proposed what could be the ...
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Weavers, potters and sock-monkey-makers of Brooklyn, toil in
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Ever since Bruce Ratner decided to buy the
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commonly told story about the origin of the “Brooklyn Nets” is that Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz called Ratner and ...
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Floating Self-Sufficient Artist Commune Gets Landlocked
Curbed NY —
... comes Air Ship Air City, another "autonomous living system," this time for landlubbers. Mary Mattingly has gotten the go-ahead from the folks at 33 Flatbush Avenue's Metropolitan Exchange Building to install this crazy structure, also called "Flock House," on the roof. It will include "a chicken coop, a laboratory, and a sleeping area for an intrepid ecologist" (named Mary Mattingly, perhaps?), according to the Brooklyn Paper. It will also have "human nest outdoor couches," which we've tried and failed to visualize. The apartment -- which Mattingly says could ...
The Waterpod Artist Heads for the Roof
ArtsBeat —
... , a seven-story design and research cooperative in downtown Brooklyn, whose members have given the initial green light to the idea, according to the Brooklyn Paper . The plans for the structure include a chicken coop – the barge, the Waterpod, was home to four chickens – a research lab, hanging gardens, potential living quarters (called the Flock House) and a communal area featuring outdoor couches that Ms. Mattingly envisions as a sort of human nest.“We wanted to carry on the Waterpod programming,” said Ian Daniel, the Waterpod’s residency curator, who is working with Ms. ...
Artist Plans Bird Nest-Like Home Atop Brooklyn Building
L Mag —
... In an interview with The Brooklyn Paper about the project, Mattingly explained that the living space could eventually be completely off the grid, generating energy from solar panels and wind turbines, collecting compost and turning waste into fuel. Though Mattingly's proposal still has to gain approval from the building's owner (who sounds very supportive in the BP article) and pertinent municipal agencies, if the project gets the go-ahead some lucky artist could be moving into the Brooklyn bird nest as soon as June 2010. ( ...
Fort Living In Brooklyn
Gothamist —
... , and now she's off to Metropolitan Exchange Building at 33 Flatbush Avenue to create something called “Air Ship Air City," according to the Brooklyn Paper. ...
Greenwich Middle School prepares for move Downtown, dispute leaves Boerum Hill church without a home ... and more
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8. East 40s now home to another vacant storefront [Crain's]
9. Obama set to sign tax credit extension bill today [Bloomberg]
10. Dispute leaves Boerum Hill church without a home [Brooklyn Paper]
11. Chicken coop-style "flock house" proposed for Metropolitan Exchange rooftop [Brooklyn Paper]
12. Rebound a long way off for commercial property market, says GE ...
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Arby's Opening Soon in Fulton Mall [NY Daily News]
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