In a message dated 1/5/2008 9:03:17 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
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So, are  we still milking hedgehogs or have we moved on to another  subject?
Ruth



No hedgehog milking in Joisey, least not in MY part.   Must be a  Lawn Gyland 
thing.
 
On the other hand, Chrif had a very interesting piece about an 1880's  
Moorish synagogue (by the architects of the original Bloomingdales' store) which  
got converted into a Colonial Revival store in the 1910's (when the Jews moved  
across town and built another vaguely-Moorish building, which a few years ago  
had its interior Osterized by rabbis who wanted their congregation to be  
able to dance) and is now going to become the base of a 12-story residential  
building.  Assuming the real estate bubble doesn't burst in its  facade.
 
And speaking of Osterizing interiors, that appears to have happened all  over 
the financial district, to all sorts of fabulous old buildings which have  
been chopped up into teensy little apartments.  Where did the businesses  
(including banks) go that used to be in these buildings?  God knows what  was left 
of the office buildings before the developers got to them, but  there ain't 
nothin' but sheetrock, hollow metal doors and  unseasoned and  shrinking hardwood 
floors now.  And tax credits.
 
Ralph



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