Jackie Robinson’s former home in East Flatbush, a baseball card Community leaders and elected officials in East Flatbush are hoping they don’t strike out with the city Landmarks Preservation Commission in their bid to get landmark status granted to Jackie Robinson’s former home at 5224 Tilden Avenue in Brooklyn, the New York Daily News reported. The push to preserve the
MAS believes 2013 presents New York City with a truly unique opportunity. Madison Square Garden’s 50-year special permit to operate an arena use on its current site has expired. In December 2012, Madison Square Garden filed an application to continue to operate an arena on this site in perpetuity and that request is now going through the City’s land use
Hana Albert reports for Curbed New York Turns out 1913 is the year of New York centennials—at least, architecturally speaking. Blockbuster landmarks Grand Central Terminal and the Woolworth Building have hogged much of the glory thus far, but it’s only March. We’ve rounded up 11 other buildings that are celebrating their 100th birthdays this year, and the motley assortment of
It used to be known as the Grand Central of the Bronx, a train administration center that later became a subway station that slid into disrepair has been restored. The MTA reports, The MTA’s top-to-bottom rehabilitation of the East 180th Street 25 subway station has recaptured the grandeur its original builders had in mind when the century-old North Bronx transit
