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Roofing General Contractor and Concrete

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scopOphilic_micromessaging_1081 - scopOphilic1997 presents a new micro-messaging series: small, subtle, and often unintentional messages we send and receive verbally and non-verbally.

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Honda City R High Roof Manhattan Sound, 1984. A version of the City High Roof with high-quality stereo equipment that included a "Bodysonic" feature that transmitted sound vibrations through the seats.

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Manhattan

Photo: Dieter Krehbiel

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I miss my Pretty Gritty New York City. I liked her dangerous and dirty. I Love New York!

They call me ~Red

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The roof of the London Terrace apartment building on West 23rd Street, seen here in 1929, was designed to look like a ship deck.

Photo: Irving Browning via The New York Historical Society/Getty Images

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C O L O R, a burst of...

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thank you to Mr Mountain Goats for another life changing concert

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Winter Challenges for Residential Roofing in New York Homes

Winter in New York means all snow-covered streets, cold winds, and freezing temperatures. Although the season creates beautiful scenes, each household has to face a challenge in terms of roofing, especially residential roofing in New York. There is always immense pressure on roofing in New York during the winter, and understanding these challenges can protect your home and save you from expensive repairs. Continuing reading explores the key winter challenges for household roofs and offers tips for coping with them.

Heavy Snow Accumulation

The main challenge for a residential roofing contractor in New York is heavy snow. Snow lends a magical air to the landscape, but this same snow has a tendency to weigh heavily upon your roof. Eventually, extreme snowfall builds up on a roof and adds structural stress; causing sagging or even collapse in extreme cases.

What Can You Do:

Use a roof rake on a regular basis to clear snow off your roof.

You should request regular inspections with a roofing contractor in New York that checks on your roof’s overall structure.

Insulation and ventilation should be invested to avoid the ice dams, which are even worse than snow issues.

Formation of Ice Dams

When heat escapes from the attic, the snow on top of your house melts and then re-freezes at the borders, creating ice dams. Ice dams could thus block drainage. The water piles up on the top of your house when water cannot drain properly, seep under the shingles, and cause leaks or mold growth and damage to your home’s interior. For more info click on this link.

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I was meeting a client at a famous museum’s lounge for lunch (fancy, I know) and had an hour to kill afterwards so I joined the first random docent tour I could find. The woman who took us around was a great-grandmother from the Bronx “back when that was nothing to brag about” and she was doing a talk on alternative mediums within art.

What I thought that meant: telling us about unique sculpture materials and paint mixtures.

What that actually meant: an 84yo woman gingerly holding a beautifully beaded and embroidered dress (apparently from Ukraine and at least 200 years old) and, with tears in her eyes, showing how each individual thread was spun by hand and weaved into place on a cottage floor loom, with bright blue silk embroidery thread and hand-blown beads intricately piercing the work of other labor for days upon days, as the labor of a dozen talented people came together to make something so beautiful for a village girl’s wedding day.

What it also meant: in 1948, a young girl lived in a cramped tenement-like third floor apartment in Manhattan, with a father who had just joined them after not having been allowed to escape through Poland with his pregnant wife nine years earlier. She sits in her father’s lap and watches with wide, quiet eyes as her mother’s deft hands fly across fabric with bright blue silk thread (echoing hands from over a century years earlier). Thread that her mother had salvaged from white embroidery scraps at the tailor’s shop where she worked and spent the last few days carefully dying in the kitchen sink and drying on the roof.

The dress is in the traditional Hungarian fashion and is folded across her mother’s lap: her mother doesn’t had a pattern, but she doesn’t need one to make her daughter’s dress for the fifth grade dance. The dress would end up differing significantly from the pure white, petticoated first communion dresses worn by her daughter’s majority-Catholic classmates, but the young girl would love it all the more for its uniqueness and bright blue thread.

And now, that same young girl (and maybe also the villager from 19th century Ukraine) stands in front of us, trying not to clutch the old fabric too hard as her voice shakes with the emotion of all the love and humanity that is poured into the labor of art. The village girl and the girl in the Bronx were very different people: different centuries, different religions, different ages, and different continents. But the love in the stitches and beads on their dresses was the same. And she tells us that when we look at the labor of art, we don’t just see the work to create that piece - we see the labor of our own creations and the creations of others for us, and the value in something so seemingly frivolous.

But, maybe more importantly, she says that we only admire this piece in a museum because it happened to survive the love of the wearer and those who owned it afterwards, but there have been quite literally billions of small, quiet works of art in billions of small, quiet homes all over the world, for millennia. That your grandmother’s quilt is used as a picnic blanket just as Van Gogh’s works hung in his poor friends’ hallways. That your father’s hand-painted model plane sets are displayed in your parents’ livingroom as Grecian vases are displayed in museums. That your older sister’s engineering drawings in a steady, fine-lined hand are akin to Da Vinci’s scribbles of flying machines.

I don’t think there’s any dramatic conclusions to be drawn from these thoughts - they’ve been echoed by thousands of other people across the centuries. However, if you ever feel bad for spending all of your time sewing, knitting, drawing, building lego sets, or whatever else - especially if you feel like you have to somehow monetize or show off your work online to justify your labor - please know that there’s an 84yo museum docent in the Bronx who would cry simply at the thought of you spending so much effort to quietly create something that’s beautiful to you.

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Roofing Northeast Bronx

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Clear skies on East 60th this mornin’

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Modern Deck - Deck Inspiration for a medium-sized, open-air, modern rooftop deck renovation

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Metal Roofing Los Angeles An illustration of a sizable, modern, three-story wooden exterior with a metal roof