Jul200905

Simon

Photography

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4th on the Hudson River

NYC fireworks 2009Since I was 8-9 years old I’ve been watching the NYC Macy’s fireworks on the East River standing on the east side highway overpass somewhere along 14th and 23rd street in Manhattan. As I got older and moved out to Brooklyn, I’ve began watching them from off of various rooftops in Williamsburg and a couple of times of off the broken down piers of Williamsburg. Last night, with the Hudson celebrating its 400th birthday, (kind of ironic since the river existed before it was named) the fireworks were launched of off 4 barges along the Hudson River. We prepared by getting annihilated during the afternoon by Natalie’s home made sangria, took a power nap late in the afternoon and set out to the Hoboken Piers around 7pm in order to get a good viewing spot.


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Jun200927

Simon

News

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Around the Neighborhood

Jersey City Water SideThere are 2 pressing freelance projects that I have in front of me at the moment and I’m trying to get as much completed as possible. I’ll post some info on these projects soon. Earlier today, Natalie and I took Peanut out for a long walk by the water. The view of the lower Manhattan is amazing, yet, with just a 180 degree turn, the view of our building is even more impressive. I’m so glad we’ve moved here, in a strange way it feels very therapeutic to live here, close to the water.


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Jun200925

Simon

News

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Don’t Move to 70 Greene Street

We were one of the first tenants in the building when it opened last summer. We were promised that the pool and gym (twoof the main reasons that we selected this property) would be open before summer’s end. This promise continued month in and month out. The pool wasn’t opened until labor day weekend. We used it once. Throughout the year we experienced innumerable issues with the building. Leaks, fire alarms constantly, flooding in the gym, the lobby and consequential mold, a horrible smell coming from our office that we were eventually told was from the ‘garbage chute on the higher floors.’ Our washer had to be replaced three times. Throughout all of these issues, we still kept a smile on our faces and particularly enjoyed the doormen. We thought that because the price was ‘fair,’ that it was worth the hiccups. That was until yesterday. We received our lease renewal letter only to find that the ‘fair’ monthy rent had been increased more than $700 – or 30%. Before moving to 70 Greene, I had lived in Portside Towers, another Equity Property, for 3 years. I can’t think of how much money I have poured into them over the past 4 years. We feel robbed. After expressing concerns, I was told that, ‘2 other tenants renewed at this rate.’ Well, thanks – I’m thrilled for them to be able to easily give up another 700 a month without blinking in this horrible economy, but unfortunately, it doesn’t help us. How can this be legal?


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Jun200924

Simon

Web

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iPhone version of Tisha Creative

Tisha iPhone SiteI’ve been pretty busy lately with work and moving; Natalie and I recently moved into a new apartment that we’ve been preparing for a while now. At Tisha Creative, I finally completed an iPhone version of our website. The site offers all the basic features of the regular desktop-based site and use an iPhone friendly UI to display them. The iPhone site offers both landscape and portrait UIs and keeps all content on scale. In addition, I’ve managed to incorporate the desktop version of the site’s weather and day/night scripts that automatically change the appearance of the UI based on time of day and the current weather here in Hoboken. You cane preview the iPhone version of the site here.


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