80-Story Tower Revealed for FiDi; First Look at the Renovation Plans for Brooklyn Paramount Theatre

By Dana Schulz

April 8, 2015

80-Story Tower Revealed for FiDi; First Look at the Renovation Plans for Brooklyn Paramount Theatre

Renderings are revealed for the Financial District’s new supertall tower 42 Trinity Place. Designed by Studio C Architects, it will encompass more than a million square feet thanks to air rights from Trinity Church. [TRD]
The Stanford White-designed statue of Peter Cooper is back near Astor Place, but no word yet on when the Alamo cube will return. [Bedford + Bowery]
Construction begins on the new development at 1444 Third Avenue at 82nd Street. Will ODA’s proposed design for the site become reality? [A Fine Blog]
Three buildings in Downtown Brooklyn have been demolished to make way for a 28-story residential tower that will light up with colored LEDs at night. [Brownstoner]
Living in upper Manhattan’s Sugar Hill, rich in culture and affordable. [NYT]
When completed, the $50 million renovation of Fort Greene’s Paramount Theatre will return the movie palace to its former glory. [Curbed]

Images: 42 Trinity Place via Studio C Architects (L); Paramount Theatre via LIU (R)

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First Wegmans store in Manhattan will have a seafood restaurant and sushi bar

By Aaron Ginsburg

Manhattan's first-ever Wegmans grocery store is opening this year. Located at Vornado Realty Trust's 770 Broadway in the East Village, the grocery store chain, beloved for its prepared food options and affordable prices, will replace the Kmart on Astor Place, which closed in 2021. In addition to its usual offerings, the store will feature a 94-seat seafood restaurant with an oyster counter and a 10-seat sushi bar, as first reported by Eater New York. The store is expected to open during the second half of 2023.
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June 13, 2018

17-foot stacked, bronze rhino sculpture finds new home in Downtown Brooklyn

By Michelle Sinclair Colman

Photo via Goodbye Rhinos project The iconic stacked rhino sculpture is switching boroughs. Designed by artists, Gillie and Marc Schattner, The Last Three is a 17-foot-tall, bronze sculpture depicting the last three Northern White Rhinos Najin, Fatu and Sudan, and represents a protest of rhino horn sales. The artists announced on Tuesday that the sculpture will move from its current home at Astor Place and be permanently installed at Forest City New York’s MetroTech Center in Downtown Brooklyn. The first public viewing will start Wednesday at 6 pm.
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November 2, 2017

‘The Alamo’ turns 50: A history of the Astor Place cube

By Andrew Berman of Village Preservation

On November 1, 1967, an enigmatic 20-foot-tall cube first appeared on a lonely traffic island where Astor Place and 8th Street meet. Though several months before the release of "2001: A Space Odyssey," the one-ton Cor-Ten steel sculpture shared many qualities with the sci-fi classic’s inscrutable "black monolith," at once both opaque and impenetrable and yet strangely compelling, drawing passersby to touch or interact with it to unlock its mysteries. Fifty years later, Tony Rosenthal’s "Alamo" sculpture remains a beloved fixture in downtown New York. Like 2001’s monolith, it has witnessed a great deal of change, and yet continues to draw together the myriad people and communities which intersect at this location.
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Manhattan's famed Surrey Hotel is making a comeback. Following bankruptcy proceedings, new owners, and a renovation, the 100-year-old Art Deco landmark at 20 East 76th Street on the Upper East Side reopened last month as a condo hotel, with 100 hotel rooms and 14 condos, part of the Surrey Residences. Now, after a whisper sales campaign, just one remaining apartment is about to hit the market: a three-bedroom duplex penthouse asking $50,000,000. The sprawling residence, the building's most expensive, offers 5,195 square feet plus 2,346 square feet across three terraces and a private rooftop.
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