Will Weiner tarnish IceStone?s shining reputation" Or will the Brooklyn Navy Yard company renovate his"   Anthony Weiner is now the CEO of a Brooklyn kitchen-countertop company. Yes, that Anthony Weiner ? former New York congressman, flamed-out mayoral candidate, and registered sex offender who served 18 months in prison for sexting a 15-year-old girl. (Also the source of Her E-mails? and therefore perhaps the proximate reason the world is disintegrating.) And now he?s chief of IceStone, a company based in the Brooklyn Navy Yard that?s known for sparkly countertops that incorporate colorful chips of glass. Recycled glass. ?Yep it?s a company that believes in second chances. See where I?m going with this"? Weiner wrote on his LinkedIn. The tabloids, predictably, made a meal of the news: ?Anthony Weiner piecing together shattered life as CEO of a broken-glass factory,? the Post headlined its story. Stating the obvious: The former Carlos Danger ? his nom de sext ? is a horndog creep. But we at Curbed have a separate question. Are his countertops any good"
IceStone slabs are composites of glass chips, Portland cement, and nontoxic pigments. (You can peek inside the factory and see how the countertops are made here.) Although Portland cement is one of the most carbon-intensive materials on the planet, the rest of IceStone?s countertop-manufacturing process has significant environmental cred: it uses recycled water for its steam-powered kilns,...