Building Slice

Peter: 23rd Mar 2006 - 17:02 GMT

yup, exactly like the flatiron. and, based on the shape of the plot its built on, you can see why:

elaine: 23rd Mar 2006 - 17:16 GMT

in the never ending story do they use the flatiron building or a looky likey?

Peter: 23rd Mar 2006 - 17:23 GMT

i dont recall that film well enough to remember, but i did just google this...

from: nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/006170.html

A pup (spore?) of the Flatiron on this coast:
"The Europe Hotel
Corner of Powell and Alexander Street
Built in 1908-09 by Angelo Calori. The notable Vancouver architectural firm, Parr and Fee, designed the Europe, a 'flat-iron shaped' building for this triangular-shaped lot. It was the earliest reinforced concrete structure in Canada and the first fireproof hotel in western Canada. The building was renovated in 1983 to provide affordable housing units."
There's a picture of it here:
www.bearspage.info/h/tra/ca/bc/va/i/ch/g1.html
As far as screen credits, it was the bookstore in The Neverending Story.

Peter: 23rd Mar 2006 - 17:31 GMT

lol jamie! check the comments on this entry. blech! yummy taco is one of zillions of "ghetto-chinese" places that are a phenomenon in brooklyn, that though they serve cheap, fast (and often low-quality) chinese take-away, do most of their business in serving chicken wings, french fries and the like. a few have taken to serving ghetto-chinese-style mexican food too, which, as you can imagine, often gives consumers an express trip to dyspepsia-ville.

their "burritos" are more like stale black beans fried in rancid lard, smeared on a tortilla, topped with dry, shredded "cheese product", brown lettuce, diced less-than-ripe tomatoes and salsa that tastes like its main ingredient is diesel fuel.

for an extra 25 cents, you can spring for rancid sour cream, too!

i gotta admit, though, there is a place a few blocks up flatbush, called new frescas tortillas thats a ghetto-chinese-mexican of the same ilk, but of much higher quality. for about $1 more per burrito, you can have one that actually wont make you puke...

any other new yorkers wanna weigh in on this phenomenon?

mmm, now im hungry for lunch...

jack: 23rd Mar 2006 - 18:33 GMT

italian taco - take an un-cooked pizza pie in the round and place browned chopped meat (pure angus) with fried onions, peppers, and mushrooms with olive oil (extra virgin) some scrambled egg and pinoli nuts, roll up the ingrediants into the pie and bake in oven, 350 for 20 mins, and then slice up and eat up.
now the flatiron looking building, no kidding, a fat man got stuck in the wedge of the room in a building like that one in the city. they had to take the wall down and the doors out to extract him.
but seriously, just think of the possibilities of putting a child in need of discipline, to sit in the corner and don't move. and you can put a movable book cabinet and use it as a secret hiding area so if the bad people come to attack you, you can hide behind the books and then fly out over the top and fly up into your room. this way the bad people will be jumping up and down trying to grab you and you can keep moving your hands and legs like in swimming to get as high as you can to the ceiling so they can't grab you.

i dunno, that kind of a building has a point to make!

Elicar: 23rd Mar 2006 - 18:42 GMT

Remind me of this...I visited San Antonio in 1991 and took the riverboat ride.

hotx.com/rb/rbtour-j/cs05snix.html

jeeff: 23rd Mar 2006 - 18:48 GMT

i could say something about prefering a certain kind of tacos here, but i won't.

EvilGentleman: 23rd Mar 2006 - 21:20 GMT

jeeff, Peter... Those are my favourite tacos of all. ;-)

Jamie: 24th Mar 2006 - 10:36 GMT

heh peter, sounds much like irish chinese take-aways. or at least the ones where i used to live in northern ireland whos mainstay are chips, french fried onions and curry fried rice which is a container of fried rice topped with a layer of thick chip shop style 'curry' sauce. quite nice actually though extremely expensive and not very authentic. The other point was these places were all staffed by white people. People would talk of Mr Li who owned the shop but i never saw him, and oftentimes wondered whether it was Mr Li or Mr Lee... I actually had a chinese friend of mine (You remember your cute british-asian chick Peter?) teach me to cook fried rice during that time, which the locals thought amazing. Like i was some kind of an alchemist turning lead into gold, turning 50p worth of tesco value rice and eggs into £5.00 of egg fried rice. And that's why Mr Lee drives a BMW.

alison: 31st Mar 2006 - 04:43 GMT

Hi there:

I'm considering moving to Prospect Heights (renting). Could you tell me how the neighborhood is? I saw a listing for a place on the corner of Franklin and Bergen. Is that is safe area? Are there any down sides to that area?

THANX!

Peter: 31st Mar 2006 - 14:28 GMT

franklin is a littel far north, sort of pushing crown heights, but id recommend prospect heights, for sure. its safe, of course. this isnt hte brooklyn of the 1970s anymore, you know ;)

anon (pool-68-237-28-85.ny325.east.verizon.net): 21st Mar 2007 - 00:07 GMT

yummy taco is the best junk food in BK.

Perhaps its the hipsters that are bad and not the food.