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Built Environment

To Everything There is a Season…

24 July 2008

…A time to break down, and a time to build up. This past week it was reported that yet another Bay Ridge religious institution on 4th Avenue is planning to sell its property for new development. The congregation of Bay Ridge Baptist Church at 4th Avenue and 67th Street has decided put its church building [...]

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Move to Modernize City’s Building Inspection Information

In an effort to prevent the type of building site inspection failures that led to the two tragic deaths in the Deutsche Bank building fire last year, city officials are trying to modernize the way inspection data is stored and shared between agencies. The city is hooking a new $5.5 million IBM computer system into [...]

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WTC Construction Delays = Fraud?

There’s a new call to expose exactly what is going on with the redevelopment at the World Trade Center site. It seems that Anthony Shorri, former executive director of the Port Authority, may have violated federal securities rules when he touted overly-optimistic construction timelines and budgets for WTC redevelopment and in effect misled investors who [...]

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As the Oval Turns

Part of Tischman Speyer’s attempt to rebrand the former middle-class outpost at Stuyvesant Town/Peter Cooper Village as a luxe-playground for the twenty- and thirty-something crowd includes the construction of a new ring of lifestyle-enhancing storefront spaces around Stuy Town’s central oval. Why stumble down the alphabet avenues searching for the newest place to party like [...]

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New York Now: Discussion

New York Civic President, Henry J. Stern, will lead a roundtable discussion about historic development battles that have shaped New York City’s transportation infrastructure and the architectural contours. A distinguished panel will discuss the memorable battles fought over the Westway proposal of the 1970s, which would have moved the Westside Highway underground, and the Huntington [...]

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AllWaysNY Photomat

Mind your heads out there folks! On the Upper East Side, it’s just a couple of unbalanced, overlapping wood planks separating your noggin from all that construction equipment being stored up there.

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New York Now: Exhibition

In 1937, the Board of Water Supply (the current Department of Environmental Protection) commissioned a massive 3D relief map of the NYC watershed for the 1939 World’s Fair that measured almost 700 square feet. The work traced the city’s water supply system from the outermost, upstream tributaries of the Delaware River to sea level at [...]

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