Built Environment

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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Another Bay Ridge Religious Site Going Condo

Another Bay Ridge house of worship is closing the doors of its decades-old home and planning to sell to a developer. The Bay Ridge Jewish Center at 4th Avenue and 81st Street has seen its congregation dwindle over the years (the synagogue as built can hold 600, but the current congregation totals only about 100), [...]

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Bloomie to Feds: Butt Out

Today Mayor Bloomberg reacted to a call for Federal inspections of city construction sites that utilize cranes and other construction sites the government might deem hazardous. The call to get the Feds involved originated in a letter from Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney (who represents much of Manhattan’s East Side in addition to Western Queens) to the [...]

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