Julie Satow reports for The New York Times. Countless New Yorkers have driven by the construction rubble that lines the Franklin D. Roosevelt Drive from East 35th Street to East 41st. The eyesore has lingered there for more than a dozen years, the target of virulent community opposition, fraught City Council hearings and a lengthy approval process. Now the first
Jeremiah Budin reports for Curbed NY Dumbo’s first townhouses, at 55-57 Pearl Street (aka 169 Water Street), were referred to by one Landmarks Commissioner as “a little landmark in the making” and just hit the market (pre-construction) for $4.1 million each. The five identical houses, brought to you by Alloy, Dumbo’s residential developer of the moment, will share a common
Kriston Capps reports for The Washinton Post The Washington Monument is broken — and it hasn’t looked so good in years. Put in place after the structure was damaged by an earthquake in 2011, the scaffolding creeping up the 555-foot stone obelisk like kudzu has overtaken the memorial. Let’s keep it that way. On Monday evening, the National Park Service
Hana R. Alberts reports for Curbed NY Zaha Hadid may have lost out on the competition to design the High Line, but now the Iraqi-British starchitect is back in the ‘hood with a design for her very first New York City building. In fact, this time around, she beat out big names including Norman Foster—to whom she lost a competition
