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Built Environment

Bronxdale Houses Renamed for Sotomayor

31 May 2010

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 [...]

AllWaysNY Photomat

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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Inspections Find Unsafe Balconies Across City

In response to the tragic death of 24-year-old Connor Donohue in March, the Department of Buildings (DOB) has been conducting city-wide safety reviews of balconies and terraces. Donohue fell from his 24th-floor balcony at 330 East 39th Street when the railing gave way. DOB’s recent investigations at hundreds of buildings have found dangerous conditions across [...]

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Elmhurst Modern

The Elmhurst branch of the former Jamaica Savings Bank is a modern gem that shines across the gray, exhaust-ridden expanse of Queens Boulevard. In its 1967 review of the new building, the New York Times noted that “motorists on Queens Boulevard are doing double-takes as they go through the Elmhurst section near Woodhaven Boulevard,” and [...]

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Goldman Sachs CEO Pays Cash for CPW Pad

This past weekend activists descended upon the Washington-area homes of Bank of America’s general counsel and a JPMorgan Chase lobbyist to call them out for opposition to financial reform. Should the NYPD be ready to break out the protest pens along Central Park West? They may, when those protesters learn that Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd [...]

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