by Bryan | May 3, 2011 | Architecture
Top image (The Bowery in the 1860s, looking south from Cooper Square) via NYPL. Photo of scaffolding on 35 Cooper Sq. and final image, below, via EV Grieve. As Grieve, Jeremiah, and Local East Village have all reported, there will be no reprieve for 35 Cooper Square,...
by Cyrus | Jan 25, 2011 | Architecture, Film, Neighborhood Scenes, Pop Culture
Given our ongoing interest in that classic New York film Ghostbusters (see here and here and here), it seems only right to present you with this picture, created by Lower East Side polymath Shawn Chittle, whose website brings together a variety of interests: the Lower...
by Cyrus | Aug 19, 2010 | Architecture, Neighborhood Scenes, Teaching
I’m getting out of Manhattan for the weekend and noticed this view on the west side of Lexington Avenue between 40th and 39th Streets while waiting for a bus. I think it embodies quite a nice bit of the history of New York. It might make a good prompt for the...
by Bryan | Jul 20, 2010 | Architecture
Last week I caught a segment on American Public Media/NPR’s Marketplace, reported by Andrea Bernstein. The topic was the movement across the country to take down old expressways in dense urban centers, let traffic disperse and congestion take care of itself, and...
by Cyrus | Jun 23, 2010 | Architecture, City on Stage
Playwright Steve Willis, one of the participants in our Lost New York seminar earlier this month, alerted us to this video, a parody of Stephen Sondheim’s classic number, “Losing My Mind.” The parody (or is it an homage) is by Fred Landau, who...
by Cyrus | Jun 22, 2010 | Architecture
BY SPENCER KERALIS Western Correspondent Last Saturday when I stopped at an historical marker on State Highway 287 just north of Rawlins, Wyoming, I had no idea I’d stumbled onto a current New York controversy. The Rawlins Paint Mines were in operation from...
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