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Leaks in the WTC Oculus Skylight

Leaks in the WTC Oculus Skylight

ContemporaryAdam ThalenfeldMay 22, 2019World Trade CenteComment

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Should New York City build bridges for only bikers and pedestrians to help facilitate human-powered, physically-distanced transportation? At only twenty feet wide, the Queens Ribbon bridge (above) would connect Midtown Manhattan and Queens, making it

#FacadeFridays – The Met Breuer has officially closed for good, with the collection moving back to the Metropolitan Museum's Fifth Avenue location in anticipation of reopening in August. The building will now house the Frick Collection, while t

Over the past week, local artists have reclaimed SoHo storefronts by painting the boarded-up windows that line the neighborhood's streets. The plywood boards hastily applied to protect the stores provided the ideal blank canvas, allowing local artist

These dizzying photos were taken by New York Photographer, Peter B. Kaplan in 1979 with the construction workers who installed the 360-foot antenna on the World Trade Center's Tower Tower 1, the north tower, was completed first in 1971and was six fe

Flooding at Metropolitan Ave /Lorimer Street station in Williamsburg, 1941.

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#MapMondays –– 1938 Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC) redlining map of Brooklyn. This map, part of an Underwriting Manual, determined mortgage lending requirements, sectioning off areas of the inner city that were not considered safe in

#FacadeFridays – Endo Laboratories in Garden City, designed by Paul Rudolph in 1962.

We had the pleasure of visiting this brutalist complex – part of our Brutal NYC survey – last week and it is an incredible work of art. Dubbed the

A while back we wrote this blog post on the history of slavery in NYC. The city is often seen as this progressive and equal metropolis. But when NYC was still Dutch New Amsterdam a slave market was anchored the foot of Wall Street. 30 feet below Broa

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