WTC-Area Construction- May 31, 2006 There is a huge amount of construction going on in the area north of the World Trade Center, helping to revitalize this important area and, at long last, fill in the Urban Renewal Area that stood vacant for many decades, and complete Battery Park City. Here is a photo round-up.Crews are driving piles into the ground at 89 Murray Street 270 Greenwich Street 101 Warren Street, otherwise known as Site 5B.Across the street, a new gramatically incorrect residential tower is rising at 200 Chambers..http://www.startsandfits.com/2006/05/wtc-area-construction.html What About a Taxi Honkometer- May 24, 2006 Curbed and A Test of Will are carrying photos of a construction project at Broadway and John Street. These photos reminded me of an incident on Saturday morning as I was returning home from photographing 66 Leonard Street and 380 Lafayette Street for the ever-expanding Hardenbergh architectural database.I was cycling down congested Broadway. Just past City Hall, the traffic had to wait as one of the trucks you can see in the pictures was making a left-hand turn, with great difficulty, onto...http://www.startsandfits.com/2006/05/what-about-taxi-honkometer.html Parking Spot Squat Furor- May 18, 2006 The idea that a bunch of Park Slopers would congregate in a parking space in an effort to demonstrate that there are better uses for scarce public city land than the temporary storage of a single person's piece of property has caused outrage on comment threads at Naparstek and Curbed. There's been a lot of name calling and ad hominem attacks. Can't we all just get along and discuss ideas in a civilized mannerThe point of the people who staged the parking spot squat was to show that parking a...http://www.startsandfits.com/2006/05/parking-spot-squat-furor.html A Triangle Returns Decades Later- May 15, 2006 One of the earliest things agreed upon during discussions of rebuilding the World Trade Center was that Greenwich Street and possibly other streets obliterated by the former WTC superblock (Fulton, Dey, Cortlandt) should be restored. The new 7 World Trade Center, more slender and taller, leaves room for Greenwich Street. A block of Greenwich Street that didn't exist on Sept. 10, 2001, has returned, thanks to good urban planning that understands the street grid. It also leaves room for the...http://www.startsandfits.com/2006/05/triangle-returns-decades-later.html |