Black History Month, Central Park
By Megan Fitzpatrick In 1825 African Americans began to migrate upwards to the West 80s between Seventh and Eighth Avenues to settle down at a time when the Upper West Side was mostly rural and Central Park had yet to be carved out. Over the next 30 years the...
Calvert Vaux, Central Park, Frederick Law Olmsted
Once most of the original property that would become New York’s Central Park had been acquired, the Central Park Commission called for a public design competition. A small classified advertisement was placed in The New York Times of October 30, 1857 and the...
#votersagainstsupertalls, Advocacy, architectural, architecture, Central Park, Historic District, Landmark West, New York, New York City, NY, NYC, shadows, skyline, Uncategorized
‘Practically perfect in every way’, Historic England, a leading public organization in the UK that helps people care for, enjoy, and celebrate England’s spectacular historic environment, has announced a system of fail-safe design tools to help...
Advocacy, Calvert Vaux, Central Park, Central Park Conservancy, When the Process Works
The Belvedere “Castle” (actually a Victorian Folly) is set to reopen after a lengthy renovation. Its current incarnation, still capping Vista Rock is the closest it has been to the Calvert Vaux, Frederick Law Olmstead and Jacob Wrey Mould version...
#votersagainstsupertalls, ABC Watch, CENTRAL dARK, Central Park
Like leggy plants given too much fertiliser, [sic] these buildings are a symptom of a city irrigated with too much money. The Guardian takes on the emergence of a “new” typology in “Super-tall, Super-skinny, Super-expensive: the ‘Pencil...
CENTRAL dARK, Central Park
In an unfortunate report, a construction worker was injured and a security guard was killed at 217 West 57th Street, aka the Nordstrom Tower, aka the Central Park Tower rising at the corner of 57th and Broadway. Slated to be 95 floors and reach a height of...
