Showing posts with label too many high rises. Show all posts
Showing posts with label too many high rises. Show all posts
Monday, May 7, 2012

Another high rise rising on 14th Street and Third Avenue

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Back in November 2008, workers demolished the addendum to Jam Envelope & Paper on Third Avenue just a few steps north of East 14th Stree...
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Thursday, October 2, 2008

Candidates for the John Varvatos Preservationist of the Month Club

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From the Times today: The 21-story Cooper Square Hotel may be an imposing presence on the Lower East Side, but its interiors have an intima...
Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Uh, Mabius for mayor?

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In Page Six Magazine this week , "Ugly Betty" star Eric Mabius was asked the following: If you were mayor of New York City, what ...
Sunday, September 14, 2008

The 57-story condo coming to 56 Leonard

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From the Daily News on 56 Leonard Street: The Swiss architects of the iconic Bird's Nest stadium at the Beijing Olympics are bringing t...
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Tuesday, September 9, 2008

More before-and-afters from New York magazine

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I had a post yesterday morning on New York 's jaw-dropper of a piece this week titled The Glass Stampede. Here are more before-and-aft...
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Monday, September 8, 2008

"The city is sprouting a hard, glistening new shell of glass and steel"

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There's a piece in the new New York magazine titled "The Glass Stampede." It begins: Our city is molting. Bricks flake away....
Thursday, June 26, 2008

Dorms, dorms -- everywhere

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Michael Stoler provides a New York dorm update in today's Sun , the alarmingly titled "From Condominiums, Dormitories May Rise.&qu...
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Sunday, June 1, 2008

Linda Stasi on the "destruction of neighborhoods by big-bucks bullies"

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New York Post columnist and Turtle Bay resident Linda Stasi has had it with the construction and the cranes. She lets loose in a piece toda...
Friday, May 30, 2008

Just asking

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Once again, another tragedy. Does this crane look secure? Just asking. Can't tell. Too many of them around town. Earlier on EV Grieve: ...

A Win Won situation

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I continued my walk around the construction-filled Fulton Street area in search of small shops surviving (or not) in the shadow of developm...
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Thursday, May 29, 2008

Down on Fulton Street

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As I've written before, my place of employment is near Fulton Street, that lovely stretch of misery between Broadway and Water. The stre...
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Friday, May 23, 2008

I had this dream in which I woke up and every corner in the city was now a condo, bank and Duane Reade

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Then I woke up for real and.....AHHHHHHHHHH!
Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Checking in on "the dildo of darkness" and other sun-blockers in the neighborhood

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The good people at East Village Podcasts bravely took to the streets this past weekend for a video update on the 2,398 hotels and condos sp...
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Thursday, April 24, 2008

Life before...and after the luxury high rises on the LES

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Spending too much time on YouTube these days...I came across these videos by Paul Dougherty, a longtime video maker. Here's his YouTube ...
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Questions of the day (in which I don't have answers)

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When people moved into apartments on lower floors with nice Eastern views at 2 Gold Street (which opened in March 2005) did they know anothe...
Monday, March 31, 2008

It's not your imagination: There are more buildings going up (and why you can blame Albany)

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Says this week's New York magazine: According to a Department of Buildings spokesperson, there’s been “a significant jump in the number...
Sunday, March 16, 2008

Accidents waiting to happen?

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Given the number of high rises (4,000?, 5,000?) going up in the neighborhood ... yesterday's deadly crane tragedy in Turtle Bay gives u...