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A Whole Block Destroyed by Related Companies and Ponte Equities The Landmarks Preservation Commission has turned a deaf ear to our pleas for this block and instead listened to Big Real Estate – notably that powerful long-term enemy of historic Tribeca, Related Companies, whose tower at 105 Duane sparked the original preservation movement in Tribeca. And […]
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19 Jan '15
The above image is of a house that Mies Van Der Rohe thought should be X’ed out or eliminated, from an 1923 Manifesto printed in “G” Magazine. On the Silliness of the Phrase “An Architecture of our Time” Architects from Germany in the 1920’s got obsessed with a concept called zeitgeist. The idea […]
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Update on the Shenanigans at 172 Duane and the Fate of Duane Park Over the summer there was a neighborhood uproar on Duane Street over a glass building to be cantilevered on top of 172 Duane. The truly awful solipsistic glass design (completely anti-contextual) had the full approval of the Bloomberg Landmarks Preservation Commission […]
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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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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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The Dilemmas of Historic Districts and Urban Design in an Era of Skyscrapers: An Evening with Architects Steven Semes and John Massengale When: Saturday, November 15, 4-6 pm: Presentations 6-7 pm: Reception Where: New York Academy of Art, Wilkinson Gallery 111 Franklin Street, Tribeca (between West Broadway + Church Street) Come hear and discuss the controversial […]
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Dear Tribeca Neighbors, Given the scale of recent demolition in our neighborhood, Tribeca’s future is hanging in the balance. If we don’t act now to extend the boundaries of our historic districts, it may be too late. Hundreds of important Tribeca buildings were left out of the first historic district designations in 1991-3. With contributions of many of […]
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by Lynn Ellsworth Here in Tribeca we can see on a daily basis how the very powerful and deep-pocketed special interests of “Big Real Estate” are carving up what is left of Tribeca into absurdly tall skyscrapers intended for the world’s wealthiest people. But you knew that already. You even knew it to be happening […]
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