Jesse

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• Commented on Owners, preservationists, developers are out of sync
  This article really could have been titled "Preservationists need to stop being such jerks". And while I agree with that sentiment, it's disingenuous to label it as somehow "everyone" is at fault. Make your point and say it, dissembling is...
• Commented on Ellicott Proposes Fairmont Creamery Makeover
  Sprawl!...
• Commented on Buffalo's Outer Harbor: Candidate for an Urban Cable Car?
  Well sure it has a fun factor, but the important bit was a throwaway line in Dean's obviously extensive research: "London's Air Line has yet to catch on for commuters"... It'd end up another novelty public transportation method, subsidized by...
• Commented on Queen Takes a Haircut on Soldiers Circle
  Just to point out: Skyrocketing housing prices are anything BUT strong or healthy......
• Commented on Groundbreaking held for $640,000 Ice Cream Stand & Clam Bar
  ... no photos of what it's supposed to look like? Why is the city involved in this at all?...
• Commented on Construction Watch: Catholic Health HQ
  I'm surprised they're going as well as they are with the union picket guys out front almost every morning stopping up traffic......
• Commented on WNY Environmental Alliance tells NYDOT to take a hike.
  Um, by contributors, I mean folks who give money to political parties to get what they want. Not the usual BRO readership......
• Commented on Then and Now: Buffalo's Bus Stop
  I wish I could vote for this 10 times. Sure, look at it from any direction but the north and you're okay. Come down Oak and HOLY CRAP is it's ass-ugly....
• Commented on WNY Environmental Alliance tells NYDOT to take a hike.
  It's not just NYSDOT, it's wealthier (contributors) living in the northeast suburbs who want to be able to get - and especially OUT! - as quickly as possible....
• Commented on 6th Annual Stiletto Run
  "supporters of ovarian cancer" Nice malapropism there......
• Commented on HARBORcenter Officially Underway- Design Evolving
  Everyone has to cry about modern design. 99% of new construction looks the same. Two-tone brick, glass, blah blah blah. There's exactly zero point in crying about it here....
• Commented on March Against Monsanto - Buffalo
  Good grief. Look at the guy with the ironic username!...
• Commented on An opportunity to camouflage outdoor gas meters
  You can just put one of those horrible fake rocks over it like you see out front of some commercial buildings......
• Commented on Done Deals: Main Street Building and Fruit Belt Lot Change Hands
  W T F $500k for a 1/3 acre parking lot!? I don't care what it's next to, this is Buffalo not Manhattan! No wonder people would rather tear down "garbage" buildings and pave 'em over......
• Commented on Reorganizing the central district office: Does central office "support" and "coaching" add more value than teachers in the classroom?
  Plenty of good things can come out of Finland's experience - lack to centrally-imposed standards, for instance, and NO stupid standardized tests! But there's very little chance that a completely different cultural model will suddenly take hold, blowing away hundreds...
• Commented on Sprawl-tastic Grab Bag #2
  I think it's great - it forces them to get out and walk to their neighbors! (sarcasm)...
• Commented on Urban Maple Sugaring Demonstration @ Delaware Park
  Man oh man, there is nothing tastier on the planet than maple syrup......
• Commented on Parks are not empty space to put highways! Go to this meeting if you agree.
  Are you kidding? Steel doesn't live here, he wouldn't be going to any meetings....
• Commented on Teens losing Interest in Driving?
  Hey what do you know, steel has another tut-tut opinion on something. "I have always thought that it is crazy that we allow 16 year olds drive cars." I've always thought you should probably proof-read at least the first sentence...
• Commented on LED Street Lighting: Security, Safety and Saving
  Beware of unintended consequences. Cheaper lighting costs will just free up money to be spent on more lighting, or just shifted elsewhere....
• Commented on Crummy is as Crummy Does: A Gallery of Mediocrity
  It's not hard to be optimistic at all. You just have to look at the successes as being WAY MORE than there have been in the past. You're not going to change the destructive culture overnight. But if you can't...
• Commented on Construction Watch: Seneca Buffalo Creek Casino
  Because traffic there now is so stellar......
• Commented on Mid Century Modern Buffalo - Gordon Bunshaft
  Yes, please. Anyone trying to create some sort of appreciation for boring ugly glass has a long road ahead. Wow, oh boy, the glass is GREEN! Whee! Hey, why not start arguing about how awesome the new Tim Horton's buildings...
• Commented on Kissling Completes Two North Street Renovations
  "One feature to note is the impressive newel post of the grand staircase, which is carved entirely from one piece of wood and intricately detailed." You can note it, but you can't (apparently) see a photo of it....
• Commented on Construction Watch: Toronto Condo Boom
  Yup. It's horrible that we don't have to pay > $500k for a 1,000 sq ft chunk of living space. Terrible....
• Commented on Construction Watch: Toronto Condo Boom
  Urbanization of the human population continues apace. Fact is, as oil becomes more scarce in the far north and west of Canada, not only the workers but all those in place to support them (coffee makers, toilet cleaners) will be...
• Commented on Bethlehem Steel Demolition Halted Due to Illegally Issued Demo Permit
  I'm giving you a thumbs up juts for "nut bags jolly stomped". Made me spit tea on keyboard. More seriously, now what? You got your temporary stay of execution, but the clemency phone call still ain't coming....
• Commented on America's Oldest Cities
  Also, shitty homes from 100 years ago *already came down*. Those that are left are the well-built ones. QED....
• Commented on America's Oldest Cities
  Try a townhouse in northern Virginia. I owned one. I had to pay $20k out of pocket about 10 years ago because the fake chimney cladding wasn't tied properly to the house, water got in, and rotted away the entire...
• Commented on Lindy Ruff Fired
  It looks to me like simply a big old **** *** to Schopp and Parker....