As someone who lives in Brooklyn and is a grumpy old crone, I actually like it. I think it will take a while for that neighborhood to take shape, and when it does it this tower will be ahead of its time and probably be a landmark style building. Anyone who thinks a tower like this ruins the vibe of the neighborhood has never been to downtown Brooklyn, its a nightmare place with no character. It's surrounded by amazing neighborhoods, but that entire intersection with the streets surrounding Barclays is a spiritually dead zone with awful architecture and infrastructure. At least now it has something that isn't a boring ikea skyscraper. Rehabbing some vacant buildings, fixing intersections, and adding more mixed use and green space could make this a hot neighborhood that could compete with Manhattan
This building is AMAZING! Like all new buildings that "change" a city's skyline it has its distractors. But as someone who lives across the bay from the Transamerica Pyramid, I know that an amazing building can be transformative. And maybe it's just that, "change" people don't like. But, as we all know change is growth and it's inevitable. In fact, it's one of the unchangeable facts of life. We can either fight change or embrace it. Either way, it wins. Brooklyn should be thankful they got this building and not Manhattan.
Good point about the Transamerica Pyramid. As a native of and exile from San Francisco, I was at first a detractor (not distractor) but later came to appreciate its graceful aspect. The reworking and redesign of the street level, which I saw just last month, transforms its presence in the neighborhood. Be sure to check that out, if you haven't yet.
It's about time a new NYC building actually be creative and a pleasure to look at. I love how it gives a nod to medieval, Art Deco, and contemporary architecture all in one package. Great contrast to all of those hideous pencil towers popping up in Manhattan.
This building is probably one of the most beautiful super talls AMERICA has built in years. Although I can't stand some of the stick towers that has popped up all over the city, this one stands out for sure. I lived all over the country and now being back in the NYC area, whenever I walk past this, I'm in awe. It really encapsulates Brooklyn's identity. While riding or walking down the brownstone lined streets, this tower fits perfectly in the backdrop. It also nods to the gothic architecture of NY's past. Just beautiful.
As a Chicagoan I’m super jealous Brooklyn got this tower, because this would be the addition to our skyline that we need to merge our supertalls, but those prices and sq footage!
While I do think it a bit intrusive, I appreciate how it incorporates the gorgeous Beaux Arts building at the base. And we cannot look at it without thinking it is one of the most beautiful buildings in New York outside Manhattan. Art Deco with a twist. I love it.
I like how the building evokes the columns in the old bank retail space with the dark colors and gold accents. The building even has the shape a capital on top like a classic column.
I'm a fan of the building - perhaps the handsomest supertall in NYC so far - and proud that it's in Brooklyn. I look forward to visiting the preserved Dime Bank at its base when it's open to the public.
I like the building from the outside. I appreciate that it is different than so many towers that have been going up in Manhattan for many years now. However, the apartments themselves are crap, in my opinion. I watched a TH-cam video that showed a 1 bedroom, a 2 bedroom, and a studio. For the high price, I think it’s ridiculous that these apartments don’t even have a separate kitchen and separate living room, much less a dining room. The kitchens have mini ovens and mini dishwashers and cabinets so shallow that a full size plate will barely fit. The bathrooms have no window (although the bathrooms are actually the nicest room in these apts). And, as with most newer buildings, you don’t have the building supplying heat, but, instead, hotel-style wall-mounted air conditioners for cool and hot air, at your own expense. For $5000/month, for 1 BR, why would anyone pay that much and not even have a separate kitchen and decent-sized living room? It’s crazy to me. It really is. And I’m a native NYer, living in Brooklyn. The decent-sized apartments all are pre-war, where you got large rooms, real wooden floors, artistic details like archways, sunken living rooms, high ceilings, and cross ventilation because of the layout and all the windows. Again, it’s the PRICE of these new apartments that makes the lack of space so offensive to me. Are there really that many wealthy people who can afford these places in Brooklyn, who’d wanna live in this dirty, loud, ugly part of Brooklyn? If I had $5-7,000/month to spend on rent, I’d wanna live in a beautiful, peaceful part of the city, with large rooms and all the other nice things I mentioned. Oh, and I don’t care that these new buildings have gyms. I want the nice things to be inside my apartment. I don’t wanna be in a public space when I go home every night. It’s not a hotel. Okay, I’ve rambled. Thank you for reading my opinion! lol
I live in Brooklyn and am looking at the tower right now from my window. It's great. I go to the area frequently (Trader Joe's, among other things, is right there) and I think it will make a good addition especially when they open the bank lobby. It's an active, quickly changing area with great access to transit. Aesthetically, I like that it looks different. I'd put it ahead of most residential towers, especially those on 57th street. Does it look like the tower of Sauron? Yea; Lord of the Rings was a great movie. It's like complaining a gorgeous old Victorian house looks haunted. That's what makes it cool.
I love the addition it adds to the skyline and the extra character it gives to an outer borough. I do wish that their first supertall was an office tower but maybe Brooklyn will give us the next tallest building in the city eventually.
It’s an interesting and beautiful building, particularly how it incorporates the historic bank, and it brings prestige to the neighborhood and Brooklyn generally. The downtown Brooklyn area really is slowly getting better, and this wonderful piece of architecture certainly helps!
Great review of the building and background on the difficulties its having. I think this building is fantastic and stands out. I'm so exhausted of seeing the same glass structures time and time again but I believe the building has priced itself outside of what it could accomplish.
I do not like that downtown Brooklyn is turning into an extension of Manhattan. We retired to Florida. We lived in Manhattan but mostly hung out in Brooklyn an Queens. Manhattan is cool, but Brooklyn and Queens are hip.
I live down the street. I don't mind the building, but the apartment layouts suck. And that's compared to already uninspired layouts of most of these new luxury high rises in the neighborhood.
I live in the area and personally love the look of the building but kinda disappointed by the interior of the apartments. Also spending millions of dollars for split ac units seems tacky
I live across the street and like the way this building looks. Just wish it would be completed already. Had been interested in moving there but the amenities aren’t even completed.
2:22 wow! How cool is that! The outside of the tower looks cool, great that it's not just glass and steel like any other tower. I just wonder how much above the other buildings it arises, is it proportional to other buildings around it.
As born and raised Brooklynite, I really like the Brooklyn tower. I personally like the 21st century art deco look and I'm happy to see new homes getting built. Also, the view of the tower looking down Flatbush from Grand Army Plaza is one of my favorite vistas anywhere in NYC!
I live in New York and for about 4 months I generally thought it was under construction with the orange pillar. It only took me for someone to tell me that it was not under construction for me to realize. Anyway We call it the evil building and that’s what I official name it.
The reason why I really like this is because it doesn't feel like an extension of manhattan. It gives brooklyn its own skyscraper aesthetic, showing the neighborhood's cultural significance no less than that of manhattan.
That's my favorite new building of my lifetime I'm pretty sure. Well done. Too bad Stern didn't get to hang onto it. Was it him that did the toothpick over Steinway Hall? Of the toothpicks it's the best but I really harbor a certain amount of hate towards Steinway for dumping their prized (apparently not by them) historic asset.
As a Brooklyn resident I can vouch that’s its ugly. It looks black most of the time against the sky. You can’t even see the brass. Also, the area around that building is low end. Lots of homeless that has only gotten worse in the last 2 years if you can imagine.
Building aesthetics aside, this business improvement district and all of downtown Brooklyn have been destroyed by developers creating wealth for nobody in the area and displacing thousands of people. My friend grew up downtown and was forced to leave when the BIDs came in and he talked with one of the developers and asked why they were doing it and he called everyone who lived them scum that aren’t fit for the area anymore. It’s terrible how development destroys culture and peoples lives all so a super tall building can go up for nobody to actually live in… those “affordable units” how is a family with kids who needs housing going to live in a studio… it’s just not going to happen and the area is becoming a haven for rich people, mega corporations and overseas developers…
Why can’t we let Brooklyn be? Also, why should only rich folks in absentia get to have preferential access to sunrises and sunsets and not us that live here?
I live in a building nearby and I freaking hate this building! Such a monstrosity and an eyesore, the outside of the old bank is covered in graffiti and they haven’t don’t any preservation work on it…
Yuppies and Limousine Progressives in power certainly know how to redefine poverty, working class and affordable in NYC to keep out working class out of their luxury neighborhoods. Progressive Caste system only remembers working class NY when they need votes.
2:45 There are some units that are about 350 square feet to those that are unwilling to advance themselves. At that price, there are no amenities, they are also resident/visitor locked to the lower floors, and they will also get them both on existing fees and also existing fees
One can easily make $45k-50k working almost anywhere in NYC. And if someone needs affordable housing, perhaps they should not be looking at a skyscraper in the city
Without question this residential tower is totally inappropriate for the site. The very last thing this site needed is a supertall building which unfortunately makes the existing bank building look like a toy. How is it possible the Planning Commission allowed the developer to build such a tall building which is completely out of scale with its surroundings? The tower unfortunately looks like a sick cartoon from a Star Wars movie - ie. dark and nasty looking! I really wish people would stop being overly impressed with something just because its new and different. Nothing more than a super colossal monument to someones twisted ego.
it seems like these giant towers that were supposed to lower housing costs are doing the total opposite, its almost like when they expand highways, it just invites more traffic. it also completely ruins the history and ambiance of these neighborhoods entirely and mostly they are filled with rich foreigners. how exactly is this helping Americans who cant afford any of this ?
Its just unmet demand. NYC has always been a magnet for rich people. But would you rather have them outbidding each other over the apartment in one tower or over blocks of housing. There are also examples of cities building at or almost at the necessary rate and those tend to be far cheaper to live in
@@hootmx198 you arent american or havent been to a place where these new towers are constructed if you think that. likely some foreigner gaslighting an actual american.
Good video, but sorry -- can take the voice. Too many difficult inflections to be comfortable with. The experience would be better if you got a professional narrator or had MS Word read the text.
I understand that its potentially a good thing to not repeat the same old ... but the building is to me gloomy and why too dark .. I think the design is a blunder .. as suggested by the unsold condos ... the spot deserved something ground breaking ...
As someone who lives in Brooklyn and is a grumpy old crone, I actually like it. I think it will take a while for that neighborhood to take shape, and when it does it this tower will be ahead of its time and probably be a landmark style building. Anyone who thinks a tower like this ruins the vibe of the neighborhood has never been to downtown Brooklyn, its a nightmare place with no character. It's surrounded by amazing neighborhoods, but that entire intersection with the streets surrounding Barclays is a spiritually dead zone with awful architecture and infrastructure. At least now it has something that isn't a boring ikea skyscraper. Rehabbing some vacant buildings, fixing intersections, and adding more mixed use and green space could make this a hot neighborhood that could compete with Manhattan
You’re trying hard to seem hip lmfao
i can tell you are not from down town Brooklyn and you have no idea of the culture of this area.
@@jumpman366 that person is sounding very much like someone who isn't from down town Brooklyn.
@@vlosa2439 exactly lol very easy to spot
you have no option but like lt. haha - Billionaire owners
This building is AMAZING! Like all new buildings that "change" a city's skyline it has its distractors. But as someone who lives across the bay from the Transamerica Pyramid, I know that an amazing building can be transformative. And maybe it's just that, "change" people don't like. But, as we all know change is growth and it's inevitable. In fact, it's one of the unchangeable facts of life. We can either fight change or embrace it. Either way, it wins. Brooklyn should be thankful they got this building and not Manhattan.
Good point about the Transamerica Pyramid. As a native of and exile from San Francisco, I was at first a detractor (not distractor) but later came to appreciate its graceful aspect. The reworking and redesign of the street level, which I saw just last month, transforms its presence in the neighborhood. Be sure to check that out, if you haven't yet.
Its a beautiful skyscraper and I think it cool how it looks right back at downtown manhattan. And it gives more reason to visit Brooklyn.
It's about time a new NYC building actually be creative and a pleasure to look at. I love how it gives a nod to medieval, Art Deco, and contemporary architecture all in one package. Great contrast to all of those hideous pencil towers popping up in Manhattan.
This building is probably one of the most beautiful super talls AMERICA has built in years. Although I can't stand some of the stick towers that has popped up all over the city, this one stands out for sure. I lived all over the country and now being back in the NYC area, whenever I walk past this, I'm in awe. It really encapsulates Brooklyn's identity. While riding or walking down the brownstone lined streets, this tower fits perfectly in the backdrop. It also nods to the gothic architecture of NY's past. Just beautiful.
As a Chicagoan I’m super jealous Brooklyn got this tower, because this would be the addition to our skyline that we need to merge our supertalls, but those prices and sq footage!
Same here, I'm from Boston and we don't have a skyscraper like this. It is a art deco version of a slimmer sears tower and Rockefeller building.
This thing is amazing. Don’t be an old codger that you made fun of all your young-life and hate on progress as you age.
This isn’t progress, this is white people making white people things and putting on a disturbing skinsuit that attempts to replicate brooklyn culture.
What progress?
😂 I think we all become that when we get old to a degree
Weird comment. I like this building a lot, but disliking something makes people old? Didn't make sense.
I’ve seen it in person and it’s really ugly. It looks like it’s covered in scaffolding, but it’s not..
While I do think it a bit intrusive, I appreciate how it incorporates the gorgeous Beaux Arts building at the base. And we cannot look at it without thinking it is one of the most beautiful buildings in New York outside Manhattan. Art Deco with a twist. I love it.
Looks like American 'Art Deco' architecture but Modern 👍 That's the original NYC I remember, AKA 'Gotham City'
It’s a beautiful building. Excellent design.
Glorious Neo-Gothic design. More Manhattan than Brooklyn though, especially the asking price for studios.
I like how the building evokes the columns in the old bank retail space with the dark colors and gold accents. The building even has the shape a capital on top like a classic column.
I live in Brooklyn Bridge Park/DUMBO area, up the block. This is definitely not the downtown Brooklyn we grew up in!
This tower is stunning. I wish they would build something similar in Manchester UK
I'm a fan of the building - perhaps the handsomest supertall in NYC so far - and proud that it's in Brooklyn. I look forward to visiting the preserved Dime Bank at its base when it's open to the public.
I like the building from the outside. I appreciate that it is different than so many towers that have been going up in Manhattan for many years now. However, the apartments themselves are crap, in my opinion. I watched a TH-cam video that showed a 1 bedroom, a 2 bedroom, and a studio. For the high price, I think it’s ridiculous that these apartments don’t even have a separate kitchen and separate living room, much less a dining room. The kitchens have mini ovens and mini dishwashers and cabinets so shallow that a full size plate will barely fit. The bathrooms have no window (although the bathrooms are actually the nicest room in these apts). And, as with most newer buildings, you don’t have the building supplying heat, but, instead, hotel-style wall-mounted air conditioners for cool and hot air, at your own expense. For $5000/month, for 1 BR, why would anyone pay that much and not even have a separate kitchen and decent-sized living room? It’s crazy to me. It really is. And I’m a native NYer, living in Brooklyn. The decent-sized apartments all are pre-war, where you got large rooms, real wooden floors, artistic details like archways, sunken living rooms, high ceilings, and cross ventilation because of the layout and all the windows. Again, it’s the PRICE of these new apartments that makes the lack of space so offensive to me. Are there really that many wealthy people who can afford these places in Brooklyn, who’d wanna live in this dirty, loud, ugly part of Brooklyn? If I had $5-7,000/month to spend on rent, I’d wanna live in a beautiful, peaceful part of the city, with large rooms and all the other nice things I mentioned. Oh, and I don’t care that these new buildings have gyms. I want the nice things to be inside my apartment. I don’t wanna be in a public space when I go home every night. It’s not a hotel. Okay, I’ve rambled. Thank you for reading my opinion! lol
I live in Brooklyn and am looking at the tower right now from my window. It's great. I go to the area frequently (Trader Joe's, among other things, is right there) and I think it will make a good addition especially when they open the bank lobby. It's an active, quickly changing area with great access to transit. Aesthetically, I like that it looks different. I'd put it ahead of most residential towers, especially those on 57th street. Does it look like the tower of Sauron? Yea; Lord of the Rings was a great movie. It's like complaining a gorgeous old Victorian house looks haunted. That's what makes it cool.
you guys need to petition to put the eye up there. that would be cool.
The Brooklyn tower is one of my favorite buildings in NYC. It's gorgeous IMO.
That is one of the most beautiful new build skyscrapers ive ever seen. It’s wonderful
You didn't mention the subway tunnels criss crossing the area. That may have added to the lengthy foundation work.
Great video. I think this tower is amazing looking. I like how it incorporates the former bank building in the podium... Very classy looking.
This tower can be seen here in Rockaway as seen in many of my vids, hope Brooklyn gets another beauty.
Yep! And I’ve watched it’s progress on your wonderful channel for years! It’s an interesting and beautiful building!
I love the addition it adds to the skyline and the extra character it gives to an outer borough. I do wish that their first supertall was an office tower but maybe Brooklyn will give us the next tallest building in the city eventually.
It’s an interesting and beautiful building, particularly how it incorporates the historic bank, and it brings prestige to the neighborhood and Brooklyn generally. The downtown Brooklyn area really is slowly getting better, and this wonderful piece of architecture certainly helps!
As you drive down the FDR you can start seeing this building from the 70s. It’s crazy how it just stands out
Great review of the building and background on the difficulties its having. I think this building is fantastic and stands out. I'm so exhausted of seeing the same glass structures time and time again but I believe the building has priced itself outside of what it could accomplish.
its beautiful!
I do not like that downtown Brooklyn is turning into an extension of Manhattan. We retired to Florida. We lived in Manhattan but mostly hung out in Brooklyn an Queens. Manhattan is cool, but Brooklyn and Queens are hip.
I live down the street. I don't mind the building, but the apartment layouts suck. And that's compared to already uninspired layouts of most of these new luxury high rises in the neighborhood.
I live in the area and personally love the look of the building but kinda disappointed by the interior of the apartments. Also spending millions of dollars for split ac units seems tacky
I live across the street and like the way this building looks. Just wish it would be completed already. Had been interested in moving there but the amenities aren’t even completed.
Gorgeous, gorgeous building. Supremely Gotham.
This is my favorite building in all of New York.
I live in Brooklyn. It looks like the fucking tower of sauron
I live in Brooklyn and I like the tower. Hopefully it influences further development
I like nyc developments
Great video. We need more
I LOVE THIS BUILDING!!!
This is a beautiful building.
I enjoy the design a lot and it shows how far Brooklyn has come. It's really showing up to be the next Manhattan.
Its like the Freedom Tower's evil twin
I like this building! NYC is a city. There should be innovative new towers!
2:22 wow! How cool is that! The outside of the tower looks cool, great that it's not just glass and steel like any other tower. I just wonder how much above the other buildings it arises, is it proportional to other buildings around it.
This building is like Florida real estate in one building--a bunch of expensive condos that no one is buying.
People are actually buying the condos…saw someone moving in yesterday
It just said there are only 150 condos yet 425 rental units. Which is a sad sign of the state of the economy.
As born and raised Brooklynite, I really like the Brooklyn tower. I personally like the 21st century art deco look and I'm happy to see new homes getting built. Also, the view of the tower looking down Flatbush from Grand Army Plaza is one of my favorite vistas anywhere in NYC!
Need a building like this in Newark
I live in New York and for about 4 months I generally thought it was under construction with the orange pillar. It only took me for someone to tell me that it was not under construction for me to realize.
Anyway We call it the evil building and that’s what I official name it.
Reminds Me Of The Tower From The 1990's Cartoon Gargoyles!
When you try to look up at the tower in person you almost fall back 😂
The reason why I really like this is because it doesn't feel like an extension of manhattan. It gives brooklyn its own skyscraper aesthetic, showing the neighborhood's cultural significance no less than that of manhattan.
That's my favorite new building of my lifetime I'm pretty sure. Well done. Too bad Stern didn't get to hang onto it. Was it him that did the toothpick over Steinway Hall? Of the toothpicks it's the best but I really harbor a certain amount of hate towards Steinway for dumping their prized (apparently not by them) historic asset.
The design is striking. From a far it looks like it’s still under construction with that facade
As a Brooklyn resident I can vouch that’s its ugly. It looks black most of the time against the sky. You can’t even see the brass. Also, the area around that building is low end. Lots of homeless that has only gotten worse in the last 2 years if you can imagine.
it has character and looks alot better
I would love a skyscraper like this one in Chicago.
Yes it was worth it!
Looks like Barad-dûr
This was the cornerstone for gentrification!
Building aesthetics aside, this business improvement district and all of downtown Brooklyn have been destroyed by developers creating wealth for nobody in the area and displacing thousands of people. My friend grew up downtown and was forced to leave when the BIDs came in and he talked with one of the developers and asked why they were doing it and he called everyone who lived them scum that aren’t fit for the area anymore. It’s terrible how development destroys culture and peoples lives all so a super tall building can go up for nobody to actually live in… those “affordable units” how is a family with kids who needs housing going to live in a studio… it’s just not going to happen and the area is becoming a haven for rich people, mega corporations and overseas developers…
I can't see Russia from my house but I can see this.
It is the Eye of Sauron and I'm ok with that.
It is beautiful.
Thank you for sharing a beautiful building there in Brooklyn.😊
Why can’t we let Brooklyn be? Also, why should only rich folks in absentia get to have preferential access to sunrises and sunsets and not us that live here?
I live in a building nearby and I freaking hate this building! Such a monstrosity and an eyesore, the outside of the old bank is covered in graffiti and they haven’t don’t any preservation work on it…
Wow
1:06 what is the name of the piano track at this part? Really like how it sounds
I like it.
Lol it looks like it's been recycled from plans of London's NatWest Tower aka Tower 42. 😂😂
looks amazing, i love art deco and it needs to come back, the brutalist boring ass style needs to go!
A Dolce n Gabbana bldg?….yeah idk. I don’t buy handbags from construction-developers n I don’t need buildings from D&G.
I kinda like it
worse thing about the building is the developers who built it and the ppl who will live there
Affordable rentals at over 100k.....🤣
Yuppies and Limousine Progressives in power certainly know how to redefine poverty, working class and affordable in NYC to keep out working class out of their luxury neighborhoods. Progressive Caste system only remembers working class NY when they need votes.
It's an eyesore for sure...dull design and looks unfinished
Instead of building mega developments, better to build more 20 storey buildings that are cheaper and affordable.
Ugliest building. Eyesore.
Great more housing for wealthy people but none for less fortunate
2:45
There are some units that are about 350 square feet to those that are unwilling to advance themselves. At that price, there are no amenities, they are also resident/visitor locked to the lower floors, and they will also get them both on existing fees and also existing fees
Thing looks like Bruce Waynes tower
2:50 Someone making six figures needs access to affordable housing?
One can easily make $45k-50k working almost anywhere in NYC.
And if someone needs affordable housing, perhaps they should not be looking at a skyscraper in the city
No and yes. That's only slightly above average income in a high cost of living city.
I think it looks dumb and ugly.
Without question this residential tower is totally inappropriate for the site. The very last thing this site needed is a supertall building which unfortunately makes the existing bank building look like a toy. How is it possible the Planning Commission allowed the developer to build such a tall building which is completely out of scale with its surroundings? The tower unfortunately looks like a sick cartoon from a Star Wars movie - ie. dark and nasty looking! I really wish people would stop being overly impressed with something just because its new and different. Nothing more than a super colossal monument to someones twisted ego.
It is not an attractive building.
interesting
that wasa 975k payday on the dodgers game
Looks like crap if im honest
loan default
Where the Lords of Flatbush live.
That's by my old high school
Eye of (Sauron)
Out of place, ugly, don't like it.
It looks good, and everything around it looks like shit so it doesn't fit in.
These guys have been watching too much lord of the rings or star wars.
it seems like these giant towers that were supposed to lower housing costs are doing the total opposite, its almost like when they expand highways, it just invites more traffic. it also completely ruins the history and ambiance of these neighborhoods entirely and mostly they are filled with rich foreigners. how exactly is this helping Americans who cant afford any of this ?
NIMBY
Its just unmet demand. NYC has always been a magnet for rich people. But would you rather have them outbidding each other over the apartment in one tower or over blocks of housing.
There are also examples of cities building at or almost at the necessary rate and those tend to be far cheaper to live in
@@hootmx198turns out they were right all along
@@JC-nl3nh nope you're just willfully ignorant
@@hootmx198 you arent american or havent been to a place where these new towers are constructed if you think that. likely some foreigner gaslighting an actual american.
balad dur
Hideous and tacky if you ask me. But hey chacon son gout!
Good video, but sorry -- can take the voice. Too many difficult inflections to be comfortable with.
The experience would be better if you got a professional narrator or had MS Word read the text.
Hate it!
Ugliest Building EVER!! Looks like something from Lord of the Rings. Why make it such a dark color🤮. The Bank is beautiful though
I don’t like the color at all
I understand that its potentially a good thing to not repeat the same old ... but the building is to me gloomy and why too dark .. I think the design is a blunder .. as suggested by the unsold condos ... the spot deserved something ground breaking ...
This thing is amazing. Don’t be an old codger that you made fun of all your young-life and hate on progress as you age.