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Williamsburg really is the new Manhattan.
The Daily News does a really shoddy job covering the planned conversion of an industrial builing on Kent street in Williamsburg. The owner of building, which is not fully residential, and is situated in an area that is still overwhelmingly industrial (the recently closed Domino factory is nearby, and you have to get up really […]
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Where the heart is, if not the funding.
Mayor Bloomberg formally announced the plan to revise the city’s strategy for homelessness in a speech yesterday. As an exercise in rhetoric, there are a number of admirable points made. The speech clearly recognizes that distinct issues surrounding the ‘chronic homeless’ population (mostly men, mostly with sustance abuse and/or mental illness problems), and commits to […]
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No clay feet here.
The Observer serves up an incisive retrospective the reign of Prince Herbert.
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FAR away, so close-minded.
The upside to this blog thing is the ability to immediately declaim error. And we are the kind of people who find our feet fit best in our mouths. So a short mea cupla regarding the potential ‘qualities’ of the Hudson Yards plan released yesterday. This is not to promise that yet another opinion won’t […]
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A rail line here. A stadium there. Pretty soon, we are talking about real money.
Roll up your sleeves and get out your Anti-Westway tee-shirts, for the ‘Hudson Yards’ gauntlet has been thrown down, the form of a 6,000 page environmental impact statement. Now, the foes are varied, and, currently, not unified. So I’m not representing some consensus vision of why the ‘Hudson Yards’ plan is flawed, or hopeless on […]
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Sambo.
One cannot say enough about Sam Mockbee. Mockbee, who founded the Rural Studio while teaching at Auburn in 1993, a year-long studio where students would meet low-income clients, and then design and construct homes for them on budgets that rivaled what some Manhattan apartments cost for a month. The transformative impact of their work, for […]
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All Family Court Buildings are unhappy in their own way.
Even though it seems like public facilities construction takes forever in Manhattan (I swear that Public Service Administration building on Avenue C and 8th Street was under construction for six years), the renovation of the Family Court Building at 60 Lafayette (just north of Foley Square) is at a unique stage worth taking in. The […]
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But I hear that plaza is real nice.
They haven’t passed a budget, or done much else apparently, but the New York State Assembly is holding hearings regardling the West Side Stadium proposal. NY1 says it will give supporters and opponents a chance to make their voice heard, but I think it should read “shills for supporters and opponents” since we’re all going […]
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It wasn’t because of his diminutive stature, right?
You’ve all seen it, now prepare for the welter of meta-analysis. Since there are folks out there that do this better, I’m not going to delve too much into the reportage (except to say that even though this might be presumed to be another example of the reputed skills of Nina Libeskind, on balance, it […]
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The new hotness for the Jitney crowd.