50 Of The Most Interesting Buildings

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The Empire State Building

I blogged these but thought it better to post them here so that they could be viewed with more options.

You Wanted Pictures

I took several shots of the Empire State Building to share the view that I discovered.

I Had to reach out the window for this shot. I Took a shot on this one so that if anyone would like they can zoom in.

Enjoy.

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Working In Brooklyn...Oooooops

I am the type of person that gets very involved in my work and I very rarely take advantage of the sites around myself. Well to give you a fine example of what I am talking about, here goes.

I am taking a lunch break today and just happen to stroll over to a window of the penthouse suite today to grab a view of where I am working and to glance to my right and what do I see? The Empire State building a few blocks away as the crow flies. Now I may not know all that much about cities but I do know that when you see the Manhattan sky line The Empire State Building is usually in it. I will say no more.

Working in Brooklyn

It has been one of those weeks. My boss called me on tuesday night and told me that permits for a job we were to start hadn't come through yet and if I would mind working in Brooklyn for a few weeks. What was I suppose to say? I told him I didn't prefer to go to Brooklyn but as usual I would do what I would have to do.

Going to work in Brooklyn consist of getting up at 3:45am and hitting the road. meeting with someone and driving to the job site. I am glad that I don't have to drive into the mess of traffic in the city though. There are no traffic regulations in Brooklyn, at least none that are enforced.

I am surprised how many new sky scrapers are being built. I counted about 15 just on the route we drive. Of course every street seems to be tied up due to the construction sites and to make it worse any job-site not using Union labor had strikers and picketers out front. I am a Union Carpenter so I just laid low going into un chartered territory for myself. At least the building I was working in wasn't being picketed.

The job that I am working on is for the wife of one of the owners of the Philadelphia Eagles football team. A million dollar apartment off the Chelsie Pier on the 9th floor. The entire building is under construction with several of the apartments with residents already in them. Of course the residents in these expensive units are snobs and have to complain if we try to start working before 9am. We walked out of an elevator the 1st day there at around 8:30 in the morning and of course the resident in the other unit on the floor had to have a fit and complain. We were actually told the next morning that we could go into the building but were not even allow to talk to one another until 9am.

I hope that the owner of the unit we are working on has the entire football team come over for a party and this neighbor dares to knock on the door and complain about the noise and a couple of the players practice a few tackles on him.

The work that I am doing is to replace the existing newly built closets with computer stations, cabinets and pocket doors. I won't go into detail regarding how we have to go about putting in the tracks and such for pocket doors that have 8' solid doors with openings that are 8' wide. These are very heavy doors. One set of these doors will actually be used on a 30' section of an open kitchen and dinning room plus living room as a divider.

Any ways, I mentioned the new buildings going up. What is strange to me is that these things only have 2 apartments it looks like per floor. So average that each building is maybe about 40'X80". I am surprised at how something so small can go straight up so many stories and a good wind couldn't just topple them over. I would think they would have a much larger base and work off that.

BBQed Turkey

We recently broke down I bought a new little toaster oven. Our old one we have had for forever and we decided when moving to throw it out. You never realize how much you use something when you don't have it anymore. Making toast, bagels, frozen pizza, pizza bites and so on. It is really nice to have one in the summer too for baking. Even for bread. You don't have to heat the big oven in the sweltering heat and bring the indoors to unbearable heat.

The new one we purchased was a stainless steel model with a convection oven and a rotisserie. A Walmart special for around 70.00.

Today we celebrated a Thanksgiving for our Canadian friends. I decided to do a turkey roast on the rotisserie. Everyone has had a craving for my bbq sauce all week long and have been requesting it so guess what went onto the turkey roast? I basted and basted the roast with my homemade bbq sauce for the last half hour or so and I built up a beautiful glaze. MMMMM, it turned out excellent and I was pleasantly pleased with myself.

I know that most people consider Sunday as the 1st day of the week but I have always considered it to be the last and a day of rest. The BBQed turkey was a nice touch for ending a long week.