" The development of this little building into three lofts and a commercial space is being handled by young Jed walentas who along with his dad have developed so much of the dumbo area now Jed the last three weeks four weeks you've had a lot of trouble with the landmarks commission in terms of certain aspects of the job right."

" Bottom billions to say landmark and had a lot of concerns especially with the outside of the building to the structure down here's a little bit out of plumb. That was one of their concerns the -- middle columns here. Are not original columns and -- considerably out of -- And where things we requested of them. Was the ability to straighten them up -- and -- issued this finding a way to do that without destroying the integrity of the columns even now there weren't original like that you outside territory you can see the joints are different and the brick is different okay -- what we agreed with them -- instead of telling them down and trying to rebuild them with the same -- Which would be a tenuous sort of situation we're just gonna take the top brick out of each -- And cut one mortar joint down low and actually put a horizontal Jack on them and just push them over so they're -- And that'll leave us with a much better product when we're done we'll install the finished storefronts. It's OK and then once that is completed there's there's there's new steps on either side you're gonna there's two separate introduced steps -- side that was obviously in issue as well how that was handled. I -- and -- use the exact same material that's here. As you can see the bluestone steps that are here are really shot right -- gonna get new solid bluestone steps with brick and fell behind just the way this is done we'll replicate something almost identical. On this side for the retail entrance OK we're hoping to have a bakery cafe installed bakery cafe there what's honestly cafe -- okay I'll all mahogany storefronts painted to match the window there and the window we've got a dark green which they've approved right that's correct that's an historic dark green car. We have a lot of photographs. From the original building and one of the problems was that a lot of windows in the original condition were very different right and choose one window to go ahead right now is a lot of debate. About how to do that. And I think we're finally happy with this. So the windows where they were concerned about the casing. Or attic cap quarter round and a brick mold casing an apology on the outside right which we think matched the original casing that was here. That was -- sort of indicative of the general case as I said. The where chair and the building you weren't quite sure what was here and there are couple different conditions set I had to choose and that was of habit of negotiation that -- and the decorative. Lintels and the that's cast Daryn that's actually cast iron pot. There's nothing right now we put an on -- We did two different colors that they chose as samples the sill into the wind and we did one they've chosen want to head. And all the sills and lintels throughout the building now give me and -- matched what I look like a brownstone. And of course what is what is brownstone trim as a ground centrum did you send you -- intent and last question what about this tapestry of brick went was going to be done. Our number of bricks we had to replace an -- And the new bricks don't match perfectly with the old bread rice -- and there are a couple of things we do we rough up the brick a little bit to give -- a little old texture right and it actually stain the bricks to match the color. And you can see there's a sample that we did there actually a couple of different samples that we played -- The landmarks people came out to finally. Picked one of the samples which is -- pointing that's been accepted. And the pointing that's been accepted is is the area between that the two windows. Towards the upper sashes. Yeah in this middle area here now is actually part of the best area of all the original brick anywhere on the building."