Remember the Alamo? It’s Not What it used to be.
-By Brian J Pape, AIA Installed in 1967 as part of “Sculpture and the Environment”, organized by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, […]
Return to Gansevoort
-By Alec Pruchnicki Last Sunday, Village Preservation, the most active neighborhood preservation organization in The Village, had its opening program for Village Voices. This is […]
When Kopper’s Chocolate Sweetened Greenwich Village
-By Brian J Pape, AIA, LEED-AP ““The appetizing aroma of chocolate that is being melted pervades the factory of the Kopper Company at 18 Waverly […]
Real Estate Goes Virtual
By Shelly Place All of us are spending a lot more time at home lately, giving us more reason to love and appreciate how incredibly […]
Kushner Real Estate in the Village: Another Slumlord
By Brian J. Pape, AIA, LEED-AP You may have heard that Steve Croman, the notoriously abusive slumlord owner of many Village apartments, is back at […]
The Novogratz Waverly Place Preservation Project
By Brian J. Pape, AIA, LEED-AP Bob and Cortney Novogratz are back in Greenwich Village working on a truly preservationist project at 114 Waverly Place […]
Then&Now: An Overlooked Christopher Street Gay Scene
By Brian J Pape, AIA The June 1969 rebellion against police harassment by the patrons of the Stonewall Inn, at the eastern end of Christopher […]
Then&Now: Lower Fifth Avenue
By Brian J. Pape, AIA, LEED-AP THEN: Once the most fashionable high-end residential neighborhood in the rapidly expanding metropolis, lower Fifth Avenue was home to […]
Clarkson Towers Promises Affordable and Senior Units
By Brian J. Pape, AIA Patient visits doctor and asks, “How am I doing?” Doc: “I have good news and bad news.” Patient: “What’s the […]
Sellout at Pier 40 and St. John’s Terminal!
By Arthur Schwartz An eight-story (or higher) office tower on Pier 40? A million-square-foot Google hub across the street? In case you blinked, that’s what […]
Diller’s Little Island Announced
By Brian J. Pape, AIA Diller Island, aka Pier 55, has a new name—“Little Island”— announced by a November 13th press release and cartoonish banners […]
Disney World Comes to Hudson Square
By Brian J. Pape, AIA The Walt Disney Company has presented quite a straightforward background building for its new New York headquarters at so-called 4 […]
Then&Now: The Weathermen Bombsite—18 West 11th Street
By Brian J Pape, AIA THEN: The Greek Revival townhouse at 18 West 11th Street was originally built in 1845, one of four houses on […]
Hindsight: The West Village Committee in the Sixties
By Brian J. Pape, AIA Today’s residents of the West Village owe a lot to the activists who lived here before us. They say “Hindsight […]
Bell Labs’ Second-Best-Kept Secret
By Catherine Revland Part Two of a series, You Must Remember This, about World War II and its relevance to our times “How do you […]
Gentrifying Public Housing Estates: The Profit Motive is Sharper than Bureaucracy
By Brian J Pape, AIA New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) is the city’s biggest landlord, and if any of the city’s other landlords had […]
Structural Report and Eye-Witnesses Conclude- WTC Building 7 Didn’t Collapse from Fire
By Brian J. Pape, AIA The University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) recently released an independent report on the destruction of 47-story World Trade Center Building […]