That's Liberty "Enlightening the World" looking over to the East across Governors Island, where Orville Wright took off from with reportedly a canoe lashed to the bottom of the plane as he flew up...
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That's Liberty "Enlightening the World" looking over to the East across Governors Island, where Orville Wright took off from with reportedly a canoe lashed to the bottom of the plane as he flew up...
Quote: from georgejmyersjr on 7:39 pm on Aug. 19, 2003
I am not an architect, Gary Cooper played one in the movies, but I was very interested in the documentary on I.M. Pei in Hong Kong where he...
I am not an architect, Gary Cooper played one in the movies, but I was very interested in the documentary on I.M. Pei in Hong Kong where he used to smell the coffee from the processing plant walking...
Tragically, the night I attended a party in the "Astra" across from the Bloomberg building going up in mid-town near the Queensboro Bridge, an employee slipped to his death in the construction of the...
In one of the "invitations to a memorial design" was one, for example, that rebuilt the walls of the towers in their original location, the outside walls and arches, the space however, was open and...
How about the two French memorial designs, offered just after the tragedy? I hope they were included in the competition. I still remember, wasn't it the day before, the NYPD disentangled the...
This is nice but what about the water? The Dinkins Administration was going to condemn the Milstein owned property in the South Street Seaport Historic District, the large parking lot there, to bring...
Many months ago, before public revue and hearings, Avalon, believe it or not was posted on the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission's website as the supplier of middle income housing on site and...
I worked in the research of archaeological significance for parts of the blocks on the Bowery just north of Houston. Recently, the LPC declared a NOHO historic district, on the west side of the...
Interestingly, the paper version of "WIRED" magazine was "showcasing" a "green building" plan that had been given an award and if I remember right, selected for construction downtown NYC. It was...
So much terrazzo, so little recycled glass.
What happened to the TV tower on Governors Island proposal? I have a friend in TV he says the broadcasters thought it a good idea. Have you seen the...