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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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Demolitions Would Erase 110 Affordable Apartments And Nine Historic Buildings in Tribeca Alicia Glen, the Deputy Mayor for Economic Development, was on the Brian Lehrer Show on April 10, 2015. She pitched the Mayor’s policy to vastly increase affordable housing in the City. She also said “there is a new sheriff in town” and […]
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And It is a Future that Sells Out Historic Districts and the Human-Scaled City The Mayor and his deputies have been selling “affordable housing” for a while now. In a city as expensive as New York, isn’t cheap housing kind of like apple pie, something indisputably good? Well, the devil is in the details. The […]
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Meet one of the new faces of preservation, Tracy Weller. Tracy is a Tribeca Trust board member, actress, mother, fierce preservationist, puppeteer, and all around creative force here in Tribeca. Her riveting artists website is here. She has been preoccupied of late as she writes and rehearses her own one-woman show entitled JARRING. It opens […]
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09 Apr '15
As a reminder to (relative) newcomers to Tribeca, Hal Bromm is one of Tribeca’s senior statesmen. He has been in Tribeca since before it was Tribeca. He runs Hal Bromm Gallery in the gorgeous – and scandalously unprotected – Gerken Building at 90 West Broadway. Hal was one of the founders of the old Committee […]
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Anyone know the year this photo was taken? If you work in the Goldman Sachs Building on West Street, can you get us a similar image taken from a similar spot? Then we could do a “before and after” shot. Notice how dramatically the Seaport and Lower East Side have changed. Imagine the new dreadful […]
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We are planning a new awareness campaign of the need to better protect the character of Tribeca. Help us choose a slogan or catch-phrase for it here.
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