A tree lives on in Brooklyn.The 2008 holiday season may be over, but the Rockefeller Center Rockefeller Center, complex of buildings in central Manhattan, New York City, between 48th and 51st streets and Fifth Ave. and the Ave. of the Americas (Sixth Ave.). The project was sponsored by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Christmas tree Christmas tree Evergreen tree, usually decorated with lights and ornaments, to celebrate the Christmas season. The use of evergreen trees, wreaths, and garlands as symbols of eternal life was common among the ancient Egyptians, Chinese, and Hebrews. will live on as part of the 41 Habitat for Humanity--New York City homes that are under construction in Ocean Hill-Brownsville, Brooklyn. The tree was taken down on Jan. 10 and milled into lumber that will be incorporated as shelving in Habitat-NYC's new affordable condominium condominium In modern property law, individual ownership of one dwelling unit within a multidwelling building. Unit owners have undivided ownership interest in the land and those portions of the building shared in common. complex. Esther Huambo, a future homeowner at the Brooklyn complex, was at Rockefeller Center as the 72-foot trunk of the Norway spruce was cut into lumber in preparation for its new role. Her children, Dalila Santiago, 12, and Jose Santiago, 4, looked on as a large saw slicked the trunk into planks. "Now, every day will be Christmas at my house," Dalila laughed. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The family currently shares one bedroom in Esther's grandmother's home in East New York, Brooklyn East New York is a neighborhood in the eastern section of the borough of Brooklyn in New York City. It is bounded on the north by Cypress Hills, Brooklyn, on the west by Bedford-Stuyvesant, on the east by City Line, and on the south by New Lots. . There space is so small that "we can barely walk around the bed," Esther says. A single morn, Esther works fulltime as a Student Accounts Assistant at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy The American Musical and Dramatic Academy, or AMDA, is a school for the performing arts located New York City, New York, with a satellite campus in Los Angeles, California. in Manhattan, raises her children, is active in her church and has already completed 300 hours of sweat equity Sweat Equity The equity that is created in a company or some other asset as a direct result of hard work by the owner(s). Notes: For example, rebuilding the engine on your 1968 Mustang to increase its value. , helping to build her Habitat home. Tishman Speyer, owner of Rockefeller Center, is donating wood from the Christmas tree. The tree was lit with 30,000 energy-efficient LEDs, powered in part by energy generated by a solar roof. The Habitat-NYC site was selected in part because the complex is being constructed to LEED's high green standards. |
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