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Daniel Libeskind Tower for NYC!

niki published on December 9, 2008 in celebrity, technology and zeitgeist. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

Good Morning!

This just caught my eye on Inhabitat:
This proposal is for a building at One Madison Avenue (at 23rd street).
“Daniel Libeskind recently unveiled a soaring green skyscraper for New York that is constructed of mostly glass and stands to be the city’s tallest residential structure at 900 feet. Dubbed the New York Tower at One Madison Avenue, the 54-story apartment building features a series of ‘sky gardens‘ cut out from its facade that provide green space and terraced balconies for residents. Terraced gardens are becoming quite popular as a means for people to have an outdoor connection, fresh air, and even a place to grow their own food.”
Here is a link to an article in New York Magazine where Daniel Libeskind discusses this spectacular building.
I normally wouldn’t post about buildings that are not in the process of being built, but the thought of living down the street from where I currently reside, high in the sky with a wonderful garden outside of my door, got me very excited!
Please bring more nature to us city folks!!
Have a wonderful day!
Niki

Google Earth-ing Your Dairy!

jackson published on April 2, 2008 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , .

Afternoon all!

We just had a sublime flash of insight.

It all started with an innocent glass of milk.

Here at SFNYC, we drink a lot of milk. Not only in coffee and oatmeal, but big, tall frosty glasses of the stuff. Scrum-tums.

Milk in moderation can be both good for you and highly delicious. It all depends what kind of milk you are drinking. We think we can all agree that milk from organic, pasture-fed, free-roaming, drug-free cows tastes good and is better for you than other milks.

With that in mind, we started checking up on the places our milk comes from, with the help of our friend Google Earth.

Case in point: Organic Valley’s Regional Milk line.

Mmmmm! Regional milk? We’re down with eating and drinking things produced near me. A click or two later brings us to a link to their Northeast regional providers, more specifically, to the farm of Paul and Maureen Knapp.

There they are. A happy looking couple. There’s a post from a Ms. Carrie Branovan who cheerfully reports on a day she spent with the elder Knapps, their children, and the chickens and cows on the farm. It sounds truly idyllic.

A bit more snooping around the ol’ Truth Box and we learned a great deal. Seems like Paul and Maureen are decent, hard-working folk, living the American dream. A bit more typing and we got the address of the farm, which we’ll happily share with you:

2023 Preble Road
Preble, NY
13141

Typed it into Google Earth, and…

Green grass? Check.
Swimming hole? Check. (it’s the dark green blob on the right of the image)
Don’t see many cows, but it could have been a hot day and they were having a siesta in the barn.

All in all, from space, it looks like a nice little farm. A great place to organically raise happy cows who will go on to produce delicious milk for customers in the Northeast.

So Google your dairy! Look from above at where your milk comes from. Heck, do this for all your food. It is an amazing option. Utilize it.

Here’s where you go to download Google Earth.
Here’s the site for Organic Valley Farm Coop.
And here’s a great list from New York Magazine about the six best milks in New York City!

Love to all,

Team SF