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May 21, 2014 | In New York Landmarks

Lost Landmarks – found, for a moment….

If you run right over to Parsons New School of Design, at No. 6 East 16th Street; tell the security guard you’ve come to see the student projects exhibit; and take the elevator to the 12th floor – you will find Matt Felsen’s MFA final project, “Lost Landmarks,” sort of a landmarks voyeur’s time machine. […]

February 13, 2014 | In New York Landmarks

A new book celebrating the French Consulate on Fifth Avenue

It’s hard to remember that Fifth Avenue, opposite Central Park, was once lined entirely by the faux chateaux of New York’s wealthy. Most of those buildings have long since given way to apartment houses. But a number still stand – sandwiched between taller buildings – and among these, one of the loveliest, No. 934, has belonged […]

December 20, 2013 | In World Trade Center

Hard-hat tour of One World Trade Center

Wednesday morning, thanks to an invitation from Eric Roningen – author of From the Inside Out, the harrowing account of fifteen people who escaped from the Twin Towers on 9/11 – I joined a hard-hat tour of One World Trade Center. We met at the entrance to the PATH station, where our trusty Port Authority guide, Mike, issued […]

December 10, 2013 | In New York Landmarks

Documentary preview: “The Rise & Fall of Penn Station”

This morning (December 10th, 2013), at the annual Bard Birthday Benefit Breakfast organized by the New York Preservation Archive Project (NYPAP – full disclosure: on whose Board I now sit), the Project’s assembled supporters watched raptly as documentary filmmaker Michael Rossi showed clips from his new film about Penn Station. The documentary will air on PBS, […]