 |
services
09.14.11
Floor Refinishing
Walking Off the Big Apple |
For your floorboards, a 125-pound woman walking in high heels has an impact of 2,000 pounds per square inch.
That's the short reason why your wood floors eventually look like they've taken a beating – because they have. Big guys in cleats? Forget about it. They're little death rays to your maple.
If your floor's not polyurethaned, wax it occasionally. Poly or no poly, the best care you can give the floor is to dust it with a soft mop sprayed with a static dust attractor – but regularly. Otherwise it's like flossing the night before the dentist.
Getting new floors? American white oak is top-of-the-line, since it's ultra-durable and not light sensitive. For installation and refinishing, you can find cheaper companies than those on our list, but none that does better work. Each has been around for decades.
‣ Janos P. Spitzer Flooring, 131 W. 24th [6th/7th] 212.627.1818
‣ I. J. Peiser's Sons, 1891 Park [128th/129th] 212.348.7500
‣ New York Flooring, 129 E. 124th [Park/Lex] 212.427.6262
  
 email this article
|
Cultural and literary notes, plus self-guided walks, courtesy of Walking Off the Big Apple, a strolling guide to New York City.
 Downtown Beauty: Louise Nevelson and Jean Dubuffet
Not too many regular folk I know have business to do at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, but it's worth taking a trip downtown to Maiden Lane and Liberty Street (converging just past William St.) to visit, or at least revisit, the triangular park just to the east - Louise Nevelson Plaza. At times over the past few years, Nevelson's lyrical steel structures, titled Shadows and Flags (1977), have been somewhat obscured by the plaza's own renovation.
Around the corner and up the stairs at Chase Manhattan Plaza, Jean Dubuffet's fantastical Groupe de Quatres Arbres (1972) still surprises, and, in fact, the Chase plaza's elevation provides a perfect vantage point to look at the Nevelson pieces from on high. Handsome artwork by a woman and a pretty work by a man are frequently worth checking out, especially in tandem.
[Continued] |
|
|
