I love seeing the layers of history with the added mansard roof, fire engine sign, and the nail salon signage. The a/c units not so much

Garden in Freeman Alley in the Bowery

The Neon Alphabet. Day 26: Z is for Zweigle.

this video of Haruki Murakami super fans losing it after the Nobel Prize for Literature announced this year's recipient is Anne Carson (spelled Ann by store staff) is what it's all about, folks

Bieberschwänze! (Be careful translating that)

Next time I’ll just “well, actually“ you lol.

Yeah I think you had a typo in your first reply “higher” instead of “lower”. We usually use ERVs in New York because of hot humid summers and dry winters

Remember, you can avoid 311 heat complaints easily if you have a building designed to the Passive House standard

How does it lower indoor RH?

In New York this would be limited to six stories, and we don’t really have courtyards like this. On the plus side, bathrooms are required to be accessible here.

ERVs also have a bypass function that automatically (or manually) allows ventilation w/o heat and humidity recovery

Right. An ERV (Enthalpy/Energy Recovery Ventilator) recovers >60% of the moisture that would otherwise be gained in summer or lost in winter. So ERV does bring in humid air if the absolute humidity outside is higher than inside but much less than ventilation w/o enthalpy recovery.

Another affordable senior Passive House building breaks ground in the Bronx. Sol on Park, a public-private partnership designed by Magnusson Architecture and Planning

Ha didn’t see your reply before I sent mine. Good to know my GeoGuess was right though

Yeah , Church Ave in East Flatbush

Lantenbachronchamp

Apparently the one in New Haven Union Station is still there

The Line on Long Island

They look like phone numbers! (I know they aren’t)