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09 Dec '13In the top photo we see the elegant Washington Market building of 1880 at the corner of Vesey and West Streets. It was built on the site of a traditional market that had been there since 1770. Washington Market was the largest produce market in the country and the epicenter of an international agricultural […]
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04 Jun '13
Developers and their architects constantly ask us to embrace new buildings. They tell us that redevelopment of every pocket of airspace is a necessary part of capitalism’s creative powers. Although this seems a self-serving argument, we are busy, it’s not our block, so we let it go. Yet sometimes developers go too far. That is […]
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From Todd’s studio he has great views of the Woolworth Building. I am not much of a fan of the WTC construction site, but in Todd’s hands, it develops a strange beauty. He wrote me this note when asked if it was okay to profile him here: ”I have spent many hours […]
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18 Feb '13
David Levanti’s beautiful photographs of Tribeca’s historic districts were used to market a modern building on Franklin Street. You can see more of his work at www.davidlevanti.com.
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I got this note from Peter Koval. Many of you have seen his work on Tribeca Citizen. Above is another example. The note describes how to get in touch with him for his next round of painting in Tribeca. Hi there, I wanted to thank everyone for their great ideas and support during my […]
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07 Feb '13
Independence Plaza and Washington Market Park are now where this astonishingly beautiful block once was, razed by idiotic urban renewal policies.
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07 Feb '13
This is a photo of polluted, barely liveable Shanghai, which I visited recently. William Duggan, (author of Strategic Intuition) wrote me this note: “What makes NY great? Fifty years ago you would have said, ‘skyscrapers.’ NY had more of them than any other city in the world, and that made New York stand head and shoulders […]
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Paul Goldberger, a critic at The New Yorker and former critic at the Times, said this of Duane Park and its surrounding block in his book “The City Observed”: This is the sort of place cities around the country struggle to create; New York has had it all along, and it is ignored [well, not […]
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