Built Environment

Spring Cleaning at the Panorama

3 March 2011

The Panorama of the City of New York at the Queens Museum of Art was closed today for some spring cleaning. The QMA’s Facebook page posted some great photos of the Godzilla-sized caretakers vacuuming the Hudson River and dusting off the Palisades. Built by Robert Moses for the 1964-65 World’s Fair, the massive 9,335 square [...]

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The Parkchester housing development in the Bronx was built by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company–the same insurance giant that originally developed Stuyvesant Town, Peter Cooper Village, and Riverton Houses in Manhattan. Constructed from 1938 to 1942, this “city within a city” still thrives today and contains many artistic flourishes that distinguish it from its Manhattan [...]

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Despite Weak Economy, Retail Chains Expand in NYC

The Center for an Urban Future’s third annual ranking of national retail chains in New York City found that despite the floundering economy, chain stores have expanded 4.1% overall in the city. The largest percentage of expansion occurred in Brooklyn (5.3%), while Manhattan housed the largest number of chain stores (2,746), followed by Queens (1,479), [...]

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Bronxdale Houses Renamed for Sotomayor

The New York City Housing Authority’s Board recently voted to rename the Bronxdale Houses and the Bronxdale Community Center for Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. The Bronxdale Houses were built in 1955 and are composed of twenty-eight seven-story buildings housing 3,479 residents in the Soundview section of the Bronx. Sotomayor moved into Building 24 at [...]

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Raymond Hood’s terra-cotta-clad McGraw-Hill building is a pleasure to glimpse at any time of day.

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Sky View Parc Update

After three years of construction work, the Sky View Parc mixed-use development in Flushing is getting closer to the completion of Phase One, which includes three of the planned six residential towers which sit atop the retail and parking base. The 14-acre site along College Point Boulevard will ultimately house 1,100 luxury condo apartments above [...]

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Really?

If the electricians only placed that light fixture two feet higher or lower, a charismatic little piece of 1940s commercial signage could have remained intact. Despite the interrupted sign, the storefront is still in use as a launderette on East Tremont Avenue in the Parkchester section of the Bronx. If its neighbor to the left [...]

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