From the NYT Cityroom Blog November 29, 2007, 1:43 pmA Brick Facade Remains as a Signal for ChangeBy David W. Dunlap And then there was one. Or rather, the brick facade of one.Looking like “Ye Old New-York” set on a Hollywood back lot, 211 Pearl Street is now all that survives of a triptych of […]
From amNY.comChanges in store for South Street SeaportBy David Freedlander, amNewYork Staff [email protected] November 13, 2007 The South Street Seaport, an area for decades dismissed as “just for tourists,” has re-emerged in the forefront of New Yorkers’ minds as architects, preservations and local residents wrestle over the waterfront of the future. It’s been two years […]
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/07/1830s-warehouse-in-lower-manhattan-is-demolished/The site provides an opportunity for readers to comment. November 7, 2007, 4:53 pm1830s Warehouse in Lower Manhattan Is DemolishedBy David W. Dunlap History is disappearing by the inch today on Pearl Street.A five-story, 176-year-old warehouse between John and Platt Streets that survived the great fire of 1835 — and every other calamity to befall […]
From The Committee for the Preservation of Historic Pearl [email protected]://www.historicpearlstreet.org/ Update – 11/05/07213 Pearl StreetDemolition is expected to begin on Tues. Nov. 6th at 213 Pearl Street, though a detail in the permitting process for the project may postpone the work. It does not appear that owner, The Lam Group will plan to rebuild the […]
www.amny.com/news/local/am-wtc1104,0,5612832.story amNY.comHistorians fight to save city buildingThe Associated Press November 5, 2007 NEW YORK (AP) — Historians are trying to save a Manhattan building that is “a rare surviving relic” of New York’s 19th-century world trade center that is to be demolished to make way for a new hotel. The Greek Revival warehouse is in […]
From Alan Solomon, [email protected]://www.historicpearlstreet.org NEW YORK’S HISTORIC TRADE CENTER TARGETED FOR DEMOLITION 213 Pearl Street in lower Manhattan, an 1831 Greek revival warehouse, is targeted for demolition. According to historians, it is the last structure from New York’s first world trade district. The five-story brick and granite building had survived alongside two additional warehouses of […]
Fussy Pussycat to Hungry Hotelier: Hands Off Old New York! Me-OW!Robert Kremer vows ‘whatever it takes’ to keep hotel man Sam Chang from scrubbing Greenwich Street clean—far-fetched or fearless?by Chris Shott Published: July 31, 2007This article was published in the August 6, 2007, edition of The New York Observer. “This is the only little piece […]
From the Downtown Express Downtown revelers roll over to StoneBy Jennifer Milne In the evening, people slowly begin to trickle through the cobblestone street from both ends of Stone St. and from the perpendicular Mill Lane. Those in the 19th century historic district don’t seem to notice the buildings towering over them — they’re too […]
From the LPC, http://www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/downloads/pdf/press/05_15_07-3.pdf The Landmarks Preservation Commission today unanimously designated 63 Nassau Street as a New York City landmark, citing the building’s rare façade attributed to James Bogardus, a 19th centuryAmerican inventor and former watchmaker who pioneered the use of cast iron to imitate masonry and historic buildings. Eminent historic preservationist, author and former […]
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