Barsotti: Hero who Cared about Cultural Heritage

adaptive reuse, Columbus Circle

By Claudie Benjamin Christopher Columbus may have his statue up in the middle of Columbus Circle, but he is a myth, not a hero. The real man, as all school children have come to know, was horrific in many ways. Earlier generations were taught admiringly and...

Refresh: an Exciting Change of Environment

West 72nd Street

By Claudie Benjamin Almost 30 years ago, before coming from Seoul, Korea to New York, Mee Sook Jo (Michelle) was an artist. One of her framed metal works entitled “People” is hanging on a wall up front as you enter the dry-cleaning store she and her...

Billionaire’s Cluster?

#votersagainstsupertalls, 50 West 66th Street, ABC Watch, Advocacy, CENTRAL dARK

Silverstein Properties Buys, Holds, and Flips Following a competitive bidding war, and a July 2018 purchase with a 5-year sale/lease-back agreement with the Walt Disney Corporation, Silverstein Properties flips the ABC Columbus Avenue Campus for $930M without even...

Balancing UWS studio with Upstate Pig Farming

West 72nd Street

By Claudie Benjamin Celebration is the way Melanie Wesslock describes life. Her professional life as a portrait and event photographer involves her in many profoundly special celebratory moments. Take, for example, her images of a...

What the World Needs Now: Laughter

Columbus Circle

Still image of Reisenweber’s at 58th and Columbus Circle ca. 1900, image courtesy New York Public Library By Claudie Benjamin That laughter has a healing quality has been well documented by patients and clinicians through the ages.  Right now, more than two...