Showing posts with label preserving old New York. Show all posts
Showing posts with label preserving old New York. Show all posts
Friday, September 16, 2011

And developers win again

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Yesterday, a City Council subcommittee voted down by a 4-1 count a landmarking proposal for 135 Bowery, an 1817 federal style row house. Fir...
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Tuesday, September 30, 2008

RIP Margot Gayle

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Margot Gayle, who marshaled shrewdness, gentility and spunk to save the Victorian cast-iron buildings of New York — using a little magnet a...
Wednesday, August 13, 2008

The New Yorker "is a Huge Machine"

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I really enjoyed Rolando's post on Urbanite last Thursday on the glorious Hotel New Yorker . The hotel's room-by-room renovation is...
Monday, July 28, 2008

EV Grieve Etc.

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With less than 18 months left in Mayor Bloomberg's final term, the city's Landmarks Preservation Commission is in a race against the...
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Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Elk in the City

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OK, I have to admit I had no idea that there was an Elk Street in Manhattan. Stumbled upon it yesterday. Not much of a street. It starts at...
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Saturday, June 7, 2008

“When I go out my door now, I don’t see anyone I know. I see the loss of a community.”

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[ Image by Clayton Patterson ] The new issue of The Brooklyn Rail has a great feature on Clayton Patterson , the artist and documentarian w...
Friday, May 23, 2008

"A handful of its buildings may seem grimly picturesque, but for the most part this is unappealing New York"

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That's Simon Jenkins writing in today's Guardian UK . It's a reaction to the National Trust for Historic Preservation naming th...
Thursday, May 22, 2008

"Just because a building is old does not mean that it is historically significant"

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That's Mitchell L. Moss, professor of urban policy and planning at NYU's Wagner School of Public Service, in an op-ed in today'...
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