Batter Up! The UWS’s World Series Pitcher

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by Claudie Benjamin It’s autumn and baseball thoughts are turning to playoffs, wild cards and an eventual World Series.  Did you know that the Upper West Side has its own local baseball star–a starting pitcher in the World Series? True, it was a few...

On the UWS: Creator of the USPS Suffragette Stamp

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by Claudie Benjamin Upper West Side illustrator Nancy Stahl has designed about 30 US Postage Stamps. Her depiction of a Snowy Egret, a first class stamp that sold 8 billion, was among the all-time best selling issues of the USPS. Just out is her stamp celebrating the...

“Ill-Considered” Skyscrapers

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‘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...

unTRUE Stories

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In the mid-1980s, preservation policy in the US and New York City was still nascent.  In comparison to today, New York was a lawless playground for building owners and developers.  The thriving real estate market prompted growth and made demolition...

Sean Khorsandi Explains Proposed Voids Text Amendment

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Sean Khorsandi was a guest of Assembly Member Dick Gottfried on this week’s episode of “Represent NYC” on the Manhattan Neighborhood Network. Click to view the episode – skip ahead to minute 16:05 for a great synopsis by Sean of the Dept. of...

Mechanical Voids Are Highbrow/Despicable

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From New York Magazine’s “The Approval Matrix: Week of February 4, 2019”: “So it’s perfectly legal right now for developers to put 160-feet tall “mechanical voids” in their buildings to give apartments higher priced...