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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 [...]

BP Protest at Houston Street Service Station

On Friday evening demonstrators gathered at a downtown BP service station to express their outrage at the unprecedented oil spill affecting the Gulf Coast. Protesters fanned out along the Lafayette Street side of the BP gas station at Houston Street and Crosby Street. Police ringed the service island with metal barricades to prevent entry. The [...]

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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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East Village Real Estate Gets Groovy

Although we’re usually treated to standardized storefront real estate offerings, it seems the flower children over at the Newmark Knight Frank marketing department had some fun in creating the signs for the old 99X and Hiro Restaurant spaces on East 10th Street near 4th Avenue in the East Village. According to the signs, you can [...]

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Back

Well, it’s taken a bit longer than planned, but AllWaysNY is back!

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New York Now: Discussion

Early plans from 1957 for Pan Am’s flying saucer-shaped JFK Terminal 3 (now used by Delta) initially included a whopping nine gate positions. From Beijing to Madrid, cutting-edge designs and innovations are transforming the ways we experience the world’s airports and air travel. How is New York’s airport system, which remains the busiest in the [...]

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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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