Interior of Fifth Ave. Bank Building Is Named a Landmark By Andy Newman. Article Here. In February of this year the Landmarks Preservations Committee gave landmark status to the midcentury modern interior of 510 Fifth Avenue, Manufacturers Hanover Trust building designed by Skidmore, Ownings and Merrill LLP in 1954— the squat, transparent former Manufacturers Trust Bank Building … Continue reading
March 25, 1911 Fire is more devastating that any type of demolition. Exactly 100 years ago to this day, near closing time, a fire broke out in the Triangle Waist Factory located in Greenwich Village, New York. It claimed the lives of over 146 immigrant workers, predominately women and some as young as 15 years old. Immigrants … Continue reading
Coney Island Time Warp In the Ruins of Playland, Artifacts of Better Days. By The New York Times. Article Here. New York Times documents the decrepit “ruins” of Coney Island. Although Coney Island has stepped into a scene of nostalgia, to neglect the demonstrated destruction does not indicate that it is time for Coney Island to take steps … Continue reading
The Greenwich Village Society of Historic Preservation rallied at Silver Towers against New York University’s plan to expand it’s campus further into Greenwich Village. NYU plans to erect a 40-story, 400′ tower within architect I.M. Pei’s Silver Towers complex – which contains landmarked buildings. This would be the first step in a large scale plan for … Continue reading
To Happen Upon City Landmarks, by Way of an App. By Kerri MacDonald. Article Here. Steve Romalewski, head of the CUNY Mapping Service at the Center for Urban Research has developed an application called Landmarks:New York. The app makes it possible for your phone to use it’s GPS capabilities in order to list all declared or semi-declared … Continue reading
Nel cuore di Little Italia As part Italian-american I take pride in where my city displays Italian culture. Little Italy is a culmination of all I grew up with pasta, italian ice, music, and good fashion. I only recently had the pleasure of exploring Little Italy more when I began classes in Manhattan – In plain words it … Continue reading
On February 23, Villagers mourn 35 Cooper Square in candlelight vigil. By Amy Zhang. Article Here Members of the preservationist group, The Bowery Alliance of Neighbors, gather around 35 Cooper Square to mourn the loss of the historic building with a candle-light vigil. The group had only days before been protesting the Landmark Preservation Committee’s … Continue reading
I have been a New Yorker all of my life. Sure I have spent the majority of it secluded away from the more well-known boroughs – but all the same I have knowledge of Manhattan. Before signing up for the Shaping the Urban Environment class, I had some notion that there was a force keeping … Continue reading
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