The validation (not that we need any) continues to flood in.  The NY Times (6 years late) catches up -

The Anti-McMansion

Blizzard today.  What more can you say.

The house we are reinventing on the Hudson.

Carpenter taking a lunch, riverside.

Wood ceilings.

Over in Stone Ridge looks good.

Chimney stucco.

Fighting the Elements over in Rhinebeck.  The Elements have no chance.

Flooding the zone with workers -

And it's my birthday today.

So I was in the City, staying in a hotel in Harlem...

and found this gem of information for all you guys out there - (like my one friend said, 'you need a poll to tell you that?')..

Then the 32nd floor of a Big Time Magazine.

And an article that would that have been unheard of just 5 years ago - and something I don't find much reason to cry over -  interestingly, not one mention of the 'anti-gas world will end' environmental folks - it's almost like the world has embraced the political and military freedom domestic energy has created while a small corner of New York still believes that they can convince the rest of us that importing oil and gas (and keeping the environmental degradation at arms length) is somehow morally better than making our own.  

U.S. may be inching toward oil independence

Paul Davidson, USA TODAY1:30 p.m. EST February 9, 2014

U.S. oil imports are down 17% since 2010, helping narrow the trade deficit.

Story Here -

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The Beauty of New.

Of course, tear downs aren't nearly as feasible up here where a house is 90% of the purchase cost, as opposed to the Hamptons where the land is probably a majority percentage of the all-in cost.

But new, or fully gutted and renovated, does offer some compelling advantages, which we - and our clients - have known for years.

And now the NY Times and Hamptons have lent us humble country folk their credibility.