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[ Photo: St. John’s Chapel at Vestry and Ericcson Place, 1916. Scaffolding is going up at 31 Desbrosses to tear down the great Sonn Whiskey Warehouse. 67 Vestry is still under threat. 59 Franklin has a demolition permit. Occupants are being kicked out of 59 Warren. The demolition permits are everywhere. Towers keep springing […]
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12 Dec '14The Unprotected Beauties of Tribeca North A lot of wonderful buildings in Tribeca North were bizarrely left out of Tribeca North Historic District back in 1993. Why? Was it because the boundaries were sloppily drawn? That is certainly a possibility, for at least one building in Tribeca North got cut in half by the current […]
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On November 15, 2014, Professor Steven Semes, of the University of Notre Dame, spoke to 80 people at an event at the New York Academy of Art sponsored by the Tribeca Trust, the Historic Districts Council, the Project for Public Spaces, and the Congress for New Urbanism’s New York Chapter. With the author’s permission, the […]
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12 Dec '14
Those who live around the Seaport have been valiantly fighting a nasty and manipulative effort by the Howard Hughes Corp to “skyscraper up” and generally wreak havoc on what is left of the historic seaport after the debacle of urban renewal there in the 1960s. We in Tribeca know what it is like to be in […]
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A Perfect Holiday Gift for your home, a Replica of Your New York Apartment Building – in Gingerbread! Proceeds to benefit Tribeca Trust / You provide a clear photograph or drawing of the front of your building and Tribeca Trust Board Member Andrea Pratt (gingerbread baker extraordinaire) will make a replica in sweet, spicy gingerbread. 100% edible. Pick-up/delivery to […]
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