Listening to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo speak yesterday about the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s five-year capital plan, you would be forgiven for thinking he has nothing to do with the goings-on at America’s largest transit…
Baruch College’s Lawrence and Eris Field Building at 17 Lexington Avenue is a handsome enough prewar structure, but the 23rd Street façade looks like a bit of an afterthought. The twin faces that rise straight up from…
Yesterday morning, a new building permit application was filed for a new school at 1343 Inwood Avenue, in the Highbridge section of the South Bronx. Around the corner from the 170th Street stop on the 4…
Pacific Park Brooklyn has gone through its share of ups and downs, and not a few design revisions – from the post-quake Frank Gehry original and more manageable SHoP designs (both back when it was still called…
The leafy streets of Carroll Gardens have been built out for generations. And because the neighborhood didn’t decline as precipitously as some in Brooklyn during the postwar years, there weren’t many abandoned and torn down buildings that…
