stalinist and brutal as it were just a few of the nicer as it is -- stalinistic and brutalistic. it will not be perfect. we are after all working within the confines of a big, a steel box, but the new look will be a vast improvement over the old. environmental -- at 400,000- square-foot office building houses some 1600 workers, who rushed in at 8:30 and leave in a mass at 5:30. our new project will be a home to around 800 residents who will use the local restaurants at night and beat a much needed positive influence on the streets and on the weekends. many of them will walk to work in the nearby twitters own -- twitter zone and will use the local bike lanes to get around. our parking ratio is only 27 to one, and we will have at least three on-site car share vehicles. traffic trips will be reduced dramatically. i should sit 0.27 -- i should say .27 to one, sorry. energy -- the aaa tower is a 1970's office building, hugely wasteful in energy uses. the new building will be green, utilizing many advanced energy- saving devices. extension of hayes valley -- one of the great success st

that is kind of the brutalist projects that ream paris. you don't find there's one exception in queens, but otherwise most of the outing in queens -- housing in queens is either single-family housing or four or five-story apartment houses. just one minute. oh, shareen, i knew i'd screw up this one. [laughter] just a minute. i'm looking for six. four, five -- three, okay. oh. give me the book, ted, and i'll find it right here. thank you. [laughter] it's in the back of the book, and i should add a footnote about the back of the book that i'll come to in a second. i'll come to six. this is the chapter that we call the future of us all based on a book about queens by the socialologist and -- sociologist and anthropologist roger sanchek. and we said, six, do not underestimate the power of parental and civic associations. seven, use public libraries to give immigrant newcomers a welcoming space where not only books, but dvds are available in their mother tongues. and we'll talk about maybe that in the question period because queens is not only a