Rowhouse in the UWS will be replaced by a new 13-story condominium building

Evan Bindelglass reports for Curbed: Landmarked UWS Hotel Is Getting a 13-Story Condo Neighbor. With a scaled down proposal, the team representing Anbau Enterprises won approval from the Landmarks Preservation Commission on Tuesday to build a condominium neighbor beside the landmark Lucerne Hotel on the Upper West Side. The new 13-story building will bear the address 207 West 79th Street and replace the existing five-story rowhouse located at 203-209 West 79th

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An 1857 cast-iron watchtower still rises over Harlem

An 1857 cast-iron watchtower still rises over Harlem

David W. Dunlap reports for The New York Times: Promise Made for Harlem Watchtower’s Restoration, but Not in Ink. Manhattan is about to lose its last antebellum watchtower. The watchtower in 1986, left, and this month, right. The parks department is concerned it could collapse if its cast-iron elements continue to deteriorate. Neighbors and preservationists are afraid it will never come back.

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The project for 403 Greenwich Street may finally become a reality

The project for 403 Greenwich Street may finally become a reality

Nikolai Fedak reports for NY YIMBY: New Look: 403 Greenwich Street. YIMBY has a new set of renderings for the long-stalled project at 403 Greenwich Street, in Tribeca, where Morris Adjmi has designed an 8-story building. A tipster also notes that development of the site is finally about to begin, and the project has been sitting dormant since it went through the Landmarks

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Proposed Preschool design for Fillmore Place, Williamsburg’s only historic district

Aaron Seward reports for The Architect’s Newspaper: UNVEILED> THE SCHOOL AT FILLMORE PLACE. Christoff : Finio proposes a contemporary preschool for Williamsburg, Brooklyn’s only landmarked block. New York City–based Christoff : Finio Architecture has released preliminary designs for a preschool set to rise on a tiny corner lot in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Known as The School at Fillmore Place, the three-story, 6,200-general-square-foot

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