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A Reflection on growing up in TriBeCa through a post-Sandy lens. We met with Matthew Landfield the other day. He grew up in the now demolished 31 Desbrosses Street. He had read our report on Tribeca North Historic District. He wanted to know more history because he was writing a personal essay about finding his […]
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26 May '15
There are Now Twenty Buildings in Tribeca Under Threat of Demoliton – Part 1 The buildings photographed below fit historically and architecturally with Tribeca East, North, and South historic districts in terms of use and style. The fit is so great you wonder why they were excluded from the historic district in the first place. […]
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From the Sunday edition, May 24, 2015, here is the brilliant cartoonist Peter Gamlen revealing much of what it is like to be a New Yorker today. See also his website here. I did not know the Times actually had a sense of humor. Let’s hope they publish more.
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Given the current debate on hyper-density happening everywhere, this quote seemed useful. There are few harsher indictments against architecture than the sadness we feel at the arrival of bulldozers, for our grief is in almost all cases fuelled more by a distaste for what is to be built than by any hatred of the idea […]
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07 May '15
We Don’t Have to Be Helpless Before the Destructive Power of Developers Lynn Ellsworth, Tribeca Trust May 7, 2015 Must Big Real Estate always win and be free to tear things down in Tribeca? It seems that way. An event we have long worried about has taken place: the six fine, historic district-worthy buildings that […]
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Research Says Good Neighborhoods Matter for Kids But How, Exactly? And what makes a neighborhood “Good”? The New York Times recently reported on research done by a team from the National Bureau of Economic Research and Harvard University. Using tax returns and survey data, the team tracked “success indicators” about families and children as […]
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The Arts Committee for the Defense of Tribeca recently circulated a manifesto calling for the protection of Tribeca through historic district expansion and zoning reform. Some 250 artists signed it. If you are not an artist and agree with them, go here to sign the “Me Too, Protect Tribeca” petition. Meanwhile, here, in their own […]
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