Some impressions related to architecture & building in Manhattan & Brooklyn:
One couldn’t walk down a block in Manhattan without being under scaffolding at some point.
The buildings are encroaching to the point of becoming stifling.
Manhattan is “coming back” but there’s still a lot of empty retail spaces.
Billionaire’s Row that started in about 2009.
"It's because we can..."
For more info. see: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/05/realestate/new-york-citys-evolving-skyline.html
These supertalls were...
December 2023, from Columbus Circle.
From left to right: 111 W. 57th St; One57; Central Park Tower & 220 Central Park South.
“Central Park Tower,… is hoping for total sales in excess of $4 billion — the most ambitious sellout in New York history. And an apartment at 220 Central Park South, a condo skyscraper that promises some of the best views of the park, closed in January 2019 for a record $238 million.”
September 2017.
It’s a race to see who’s going to top out first?
I think on Ninth Ave. at about 43rd.
Narrow space to work with & they surely had to buy airspace.
Using the iPhone 12Pro & didn’t realize that I missed the top.
“One High Line Condominium Residences - 1-5 Bedroom Residences. The Proud Home to the Faena Hotel in its New York Flagship…
…Over 18K+ SQ FT of 5-Star Amenities, Including 75' Lap Pool, In-Residence Dining & More.”
Civil War-era survivors on Carnegie Hill on the Upper East Side: 122 (l) c. 1859 & 120 (r) East 92nd Street. c, 1871.
https://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2022/06/20/the-charming-wooden-houses-time-forgot-in-carnegie-hill/
The Jewish Museum in the c. 1907-08 “Warbutg Mansion,… a case study in architectural adaptation and assimilation in the battle to bring a Gilded Age mansion into modern museum usage.”
"The Neue Galerie New York is a museum of early twentieth-century German & Austrian art & design located in the c. 1914 William Starr Miller House at 86th St. & 5th Ave."
The line to enter was long but much, much shorter than the line for entrance to the MET. We took a pass on both for that day.
270 Park Ave. - May 2023 that I mentioned in my Nov. 12, 2023 blog: N.Y.C. (Well, mostly Manhattan with a touch of Brooklyn) - Architecture - May 2023 Blog VI in the series.
Here it is on Dec. 29, 2023; going up & ever upwards.
On East 42nd Street. I was intrigued by the metal facing on this building. Perhaps an architect viewing this blog (Matt P.) knows about this edifice?
c. 1930 Chrysler Building.
The gargoyles are replicas of Chrysler hood ornaments.
The Chrysler Building “…elevators were designed to run at a rate of 900 feet per, minute (270 m/min), despite the 700-foot-per-minute (210 m/min) speed restriction enforced in all city elevators at the time.”
67 W. 73rd St. c. 1910. appears like a building one would commonly seen in Italy.
National Register Historic Places.
German Renaissance Revival Primary Facade: Brick and Terra Cotta.
R. Gilder Cnt'r for Sci., Ed'n. & Innov'n. is the latest addition to the Amer. Mus. of Natural Hx.
By Studio Gang - concrete sprayed on rebar, dried in place, & smoothed by hand.
We were walking up Columbus Ave, I had looked to the left & noticed these building down 78th St. Upon our return south, we made a detour to look at these…
",,,As Catalonian achitect Rafael Guastavino perfected his 'Tile Arch System'...he accepted architectural commissions. In 1885, ... he started work on a row of townhouses stretching from No. 121 through 131 West 78th Street for developer Bernard S. Levy."
Entering the plaza of the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center to see Mozart's Magic Flute.
A sign of the times in front of c. 1872 Central Synagogue.
“…designated a New York City Landmark in 1966 and a National Historic Landmark in 1975, it’s the oldest synagogue in continuous use in New York City. Central Synagogue is, according to the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission, the finest example of Moorish Revival architecture in New York City.”
Many “super talls” had large screen shows.
Upper West Side.
Perhaps was once a pharmacy?
Restaurants BODEGA NEGRA & Phillipe in Chelsea.
On the left the Edge Observation Deck in Hudson Yards.
"‘Da People's Republic of Brooklyn’ is synonymous with the iconic director Spike Lee.”
More on that in posting III on eight museum visits.
View from 602 that will soon be obstructed by two buildings.
The one on the right is in the previous photo.
458 St. Marks - former bodega then parking lot a corner of Classon & St. Marks Avenues; a building we had not seen the last time we were here.
It looked like this.
And…
…in 1972, this was the view from the Pediatric Dentistry Clinic of the Jewish Hospital & Medical Center of Brooklyn where I was doing my residency.
Walk to Park Slope to meet Nicole & Jean Vic.
Grand Army Plaza - Brooklyn Public Library. “In 1912, ground was broken on architect Raymond F. Almirall’s imposing Beaux-Arts design.. Wars...got in the way it it finally opened to the public in 1941.”
35 Prospect Park West c. 1929 “A white-glove co-op building with a full maintenance staff. Overlooking Prospect Park and designed by the architect Emory Roth.” $2,600,500 av. price./apartment.
35 Prospect Park West seen from within Prospect Park. Sept. 2015.
Park Slope.
313 Garfield Pl. c. 1889. With wide entry doors to allow for a hooped skirt ballgown.
Romanesque Revival. Architect: C.P.H. Gilbert.
Park Slope.
308 Garfield Pl. c. 1920 & 310 c. 1921.
Park Slope.
c. 1901 row houses just had their stoops beautifully refinished.
Park Slope.
Apartment bldg. c. 1904.
Look carefully.
