Then&Now: Palazzo Chupi at 360 West 11th Street
By Brian J. Pape, AIA, LEED-AP THEN: In the 19th century, Greenwich village became an established ‘suburb’ of the growing Manhattan metropolis, and a ca. […]
Dollars and Sense in NYC
By Brian J Pape, AIA Back in 2014, Jonathan Miller started to observe a U.S. housing market pattern of wildly overpriced luxury housing listings that […]
Back-Tracking at Hudson Yards
By Brian J. Pape, AIA Stephen Ross, founder and chairman of The Related Companies, has been doing some back-tracking lately at Related’s Hudson Yards, the […]
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 […]
Engineers Pledge $45,000 Reward for Refuting WTC7 University of Alaska Study
By Brian J Pape, AIA On the 18th anniversary of the 9/11 disaster, structural engineer Ibrahim Soudy, Ph.D., pledged $10,000 to any qualified American professional […]
561 Greenwich Street and 100 Vandam Street Add to “Hudson Square”
In a survey of potential Westside construction projects conducted by WestView News last year, 561 Greenwich Street was called out as a site ready for […]
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 […]
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 […]
HRPT Will Build a Full-Size Field on Gansevoort Park!
By Brian J Pape, AIA Cautious optimism filled the air as residents reconvened for the last Gansevoort Peninsula “concept phase” joint meeting of the Community […]
Then&Now: Washington & Christopher High Line
By Brian J. Pape, AIA, Architecture Editor Then: This 1940 Municipal Tax photo of 634-648 Washington Street views its intersection with Christopher Street, looking southwest. […]
Pier 40 Construction Report
By Brian J. Pape, AIA The on-going construction and locked gates to the surrounding walkways at Pier 40 have prompted readers’ questions about what is […]
Update: 14th Street Busway: “Polly’s Folly” Raises Ghost of Moses: 14th Street “Busway” Begins October 3
By Brian J Pape, AIA Somehow the city police will be expected to stop cars and trucks from travelling on 14th Street on Oct. 3, […]
Transportation Alternative?
Dear editors: 6,000 pedestrians are killed each year in America by motor vehicles, not including other vehicle deaths or injuries. Although most of the deaths […]
Chelsea’s Fulton Houses Get Gentrified
By George Capsis Any historic review of public housing in cities like Chicago or St. Louis offers images of massive controlled demolitions when the sprawling public projects, which have […]
Then&Now: Seventh Avenue South/200 West 11th Street
By Brian J. Pape, AIA, Architecture Editor THEN: This site, addressed 192 Seventh Avenue South in the 1940 tax photo, was on a forlorn thoroughfare […]