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How to Research a Building Part 1
How to Research a Building Part 1
Blog writer Liana Grey charts her experience researching the history of lower Manhattan's everyday buildings. Today, it's a seven-story apartment complex with a Subway, dry cleaners, and billiards hall on the ground floor - so nondescript you wouldn't give it a second glance. But from what ...
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Thursday AM Linkage
Curbed NY — ... permits drop 50% from last year, 70% from 2007 [Real Deal] · City finishes three-year project to add 200 miles of bike lanes [NYDN] · Car-free plazas are actually making money for the city [NYT] · Tolls Bros fight for towers at Jersey City's Powerhouse Arts District [ArchPaper] · Artists get use of empty Downtown Brooklyn storefronts for free [NYDN] · Research a random building and you never know what you'll find (Tesla!) [TM] · ...

EV Grieve Etc.: Mourning Edition
EV Grieve — Inside the Yiddish Artists and Friends Actors Club on Seventh Street (The Villager) The history of 46 E. Houston St. (Tenement Museum) Jack White's Third Man Records opening a pop-up shop on Chrystie (Brooklyn Vegan) Another movie in which NYC bites it (The Vulture) New Yorkers talk loudly and are annoying (Jeremiah's Vanishing NY) Read about North Brother Island's tragic past (Ephemeral New York) and watch a program on the Island's bird sanctuary (13-PBS) ...

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