A good mitigation strategy may be growing indoor desert plants.

Another may be solar panels on her windows.

Both would be win-win solutions!

I'm guessing she's the daughter of wealthy foreign parents, and they bought the condo as an investment. None of that makes her a bad person, or even unusual. But voluntarily allowing one's personal life to be the subject of a media story is never a good move, as the ensuing internet hatefest demonstrates.

@#29, You didn't answer the question. How did the lovely Sara, a 23 yr old grad student afford this apartment, especially when she's "taking 24 credits,working a job, publishing pertinent research,and [completing] one of the most competitive internships at her university." She's like, working at Starbucks? This is an article about "the current situation of our economy" as it portrays a young woman in an uncomfortable environment that came about as the result of someone's wealth and privilege. Whose? Who's her Motorized Shade Svengali? Who opened the door when the WSJ came 'a knockin'?

Philistines, all of you! Do you not appreciate that drapes, curtains, shades, and blinds, all, disrupt the clean, sharp linear elements of contemporary, minimalist design?

This is not Sara's problem. This is our problem. How is a troubled society, such as ours, to redeem itself if it allows the bodies, the minds, and the furnishings of its most worthy to be bombarded by ultraviolet radiation and subjected to the ravages of free radical damage?

As we the walk the streets of our city during this Summer, we can glance the dark-skinned homeless, roasting on sun-drenched sidewalks, and say, "Their lives are not worth living, for they have no home, nor expensive furnishings for which to care." But our hope and our future are in the hands of boys and girls like Sara, slaves to style and fashion, who have already paid handsomely for their trappings.

Where are our hearts, if we cannot spare them criticism, nor help them from their plight?

First of all, I think that all of you are reading into this way too much. None of you know anything about her, where she comes from, or what any of her future goals are. You are using a misconstrued, superficial wall street journal article to type cast one of the most intelligent, hardworking women I have ever met in my life. She was not complaining or whining, and you all seem to think the article was something of her concoction. She was simply answering a few questions that some idiot from the Wall Street Journal though would be a good article. Later, her words were turned into a paris hilton manifesto to all of you via the Wall Street Journal. Sara and I both think this article is silly and useless, and would much prefer to see articles about the current situation of our economy or the current health care crisis for example, but as you have all demonstrated, articles like this cause much more interest in our superficial society than those of any great value. Your reaction and your taking time to write a response to this article says so much about your values and beliefs, and how you choose to spend YOUR time: This makes me wonder why you all feel that you are in a position to judge her in the first place. You don't see Sara on blogs criticizing other people, because she's too busy taking 24 credits, working a job, publishing pertinent research, and completely one of the most competitive internships at her University. I wish you all the best of luck in all of your endeavors. I also sincerely pray that your life poses more for you than the short-term satisfaction of judging a person you know absolutely nothing about.

I'm enjoying the irony of zillionaires who probably owe their fortunes to crap that causes global warming experiencing their own "greenhouse effect", and even better, having paid so many millions for the Richard Meier version. Maybe all that direct sunlight will cook their brains and bestow upon this great city a race of feeble-minded rich fucks who root around in dumpsters for meals and ride the subways all day long in search of curative darkness.

Wonder if this is her?

http://www.facebook.com/s.php?q=sara+antani&init=q

Anyone stupid enough to pay $20,000 for that sectional isn't going to understand the uber-complicated concept of "blinds." She doesn't deserve shade. Let her dessicate in her LR. No more whining. Problem solved.

Wow. Its hard to believe how petty people can be. Put up some damn curtains, whiny children. If you can afford one of those places, you can afford curtains, or you can find another apartment.

#22- Right, because the insurgents there NEVER used kids as human shields, NEVER used them as walking bombs, NEVER used their own people's kids as hostages.

Never.

Thats why you guys should let colored people up there. We dont burn like you do in the sun.

I'm sure murdering another 30 or 40 children in Iraq can solve this problem.

dumbass.

brat

Ah, it's times like these when I love the haters on this site.

23 year old students living in multi-million dollar apartments make me believe in wealth re-distribution, by revolution if necessary.

This is the second really cuttingly sarcastic piece I've read by JDL today. I can't say that I don't like it!

Wow. What an idiot. I live on the 33rd floor of a high rise and yes, it gets very, very hot. You know what I do? Wait for it!!!

I close my blinds. OMG!!!! I'm a genius.

Hey, I know a dude in Dyker Heights who don't want no trees in front of his house. Mebbe he can hook dis chick up wit some shade.

Heh, I saw this coming years ago. I always wondered why people didn't consider this when looking at their luxury abodes. Years ago my sister lived on a very high floor of a (non-luxury) building in Brooklyn, nothing blocking the sun except the half ass shades. It was brutal after a night of underage drinking, the sun burning any moisture out of the air, my sinuses and lungs dry as the desert as my hungover swollen eyes struggled to stay shut. Everything in her apartment got bleached out if it was anywhere near the windows. Fortunately for her though, everything came from the curb and no money was really wasted.