If your tolerance for Brooklyn preciousness is low, limit yourself to dinner and resist the urge to check out the hotel rooms upstairs: they are lovely in a reclaimed-wood-and-exposed-brick kind of way, but the twee factor is pretty intense.
The brick just kind of melts.
"He switched to using more bricks, the kind found in this part of the world," Nimish Patel, a fellow-architect in Ahmedabad, told me.
Mr. Florio, 33, was an athlete, built like a box of bricks, the kind of man who made starting halfback the first year he tried out for the Fire Department football team.
Images of a floral arrangement, in color and black and white, alternate with exposed brick in a kind of three-card monte.
This seven-block stretch was, in its heyday, like Columbia University's leafy campus of red brick buildings, a kind of medical acropolis.
The houses come in several varieties, like Colonial, brick and a kind of ersatz ski lodge painted shades of maroon, and in different prices.
Confessional journalism, of the kind Brick has written in the past, usually hangs on the journalist's pain, diets and doubt and debt.
Chocolate pecan butterscotch pie, about the size and weight of half a brick, had the kind of crust you could pave the street with.
Elsewhere, however, online shops are sometimes seen as more reliable than the bricks and mortar kind.
"A lot of developments from around this era were done this way, with old bricks and this kind of masonry work.
