Monday, April 22
What would our fair city be like if the plan above (filing in the Hudson River from the West Side Highway to New Jersey) came to fruition?
What do you think?
(personally, I love the river…)
Friday, February 8
Remember this?
(the Internet, circa 1999… )
Sunday, February 3
113 years ago…
Thursday, August 2
50 years ago today some of the brightest minds in the modern world (Norval White, Elizabeth Bliss Parkinson, Aline B Saarinen (wife of Euro), Norman Mailer, Jane Jacobs, and Phillip Johnson) staged a protest in attempts to save New York’s doomed Pennsylvania Station. This event (along with the demolition of the station) brought attention to historical preservation in America for the first time.
The station was lost, but I”ll bet many of this counties most important and influential structures still stand today because of Penn Stations ultimate demise. I call it…
Architectural martyrdom.
Tuesday, April 24
The New York City Municipal Archives has released 870,000 photos to the public.
Above, 1907-the superstructure of the Manhattan Bridge rises above Washington St.
Saturday, March 3
McKim Mead & White’s Madison Square Garden (1890), later coined Madison Square Garden II, yes there has been a “Garden” present in New York since the mid 19th c.
Moorish Architecture, a 32 story tower fashioned after the Cathedral of Seville, all toped with a statue of Diana by sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens…sign me up.
The building was located at Madison Ave and E. 26th St.
The Cass Gilbert designed New York Life building was erected after The Garden’s demolition in 1926…(not a horrible replacement…for once).
Thursday, February 2
Truth…this is how I feel…amazing.
Wednesday, January 18
Interesting arguments by all sides (read the comments to the article)-historical inaccuracies…yes, is the creator a professionally renowned historian…no, if he was we would call the product a documentary-this is not a documentary and was never suggest to be one. This is melodrama…(which is the point).
(via Downton Abbey branded ‘cultural necrophilia’ by historian Simon Schama | Mail Online)
Tuesday, January 17
in the year 1999…
