All articles by Dana Schulz

Dana is a writer and preservationist with a passion for all things New York. After graduating from New York University with a BA in Urban Design & Architecture Studies, she worked at the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, where she planned the organization's public programs and wrote for their blog Off the Grid. In her free time, she leads walking tours about the social and cultural history of city neighborhoods. Follow her on Twitter @danaschulzNYC.

Interactive map shames drivers parked in bike lanes; check out the amenities at 15 Hudson Yards

September 23, 2016

Interactive map shames drivers parked in bike lanes; check out the amenities at 15 Hudson Yards

CarsInBikeLanes is a new website that puts drivers who park in bike lane and their license plate number on an interactive map. [Gothamist] Here’s the first renderings of the over-the-top amenity spaces at 15 Hudson Yards. [NYP] The Port Authority has approved up to $150 million for the long-stalled Moynihan Station project. [TRD] Why free museums […]

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REVEALED: Port Authority releases five design proposals for new bus terminal

September 22, 2016

REVEALED: Port Authority releases five design proposals for new bus terminal

On Tuesday, an agreement was reached between West Side elected officials and the Port Authority that said the agency would expand the planning process for a new $10 billion bus terminal with more local input. And just today they've revealed the five proposals that were submitted to a design competition to replace the currently loathed site. Crain's brings us videos of the ideas, which come from big-name firms Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects, Arcadis, AECOM in partnership with Skidmore Owings & Merrill, Perkins Eastman, and Archilier Architecture Consortium. Though this seems counter to the agreement, John Degnan, the Port Authority's New Jersey-appointed chairman, said he doubts "any one of them will be the final design," since they either further complicate existing planning issues or cost billions over budget.
Take a look at them all here

Sandy-damaged homes could cost city $1M each; the story of NYC’s most colorful apartment building

September 22, 2016

Sandy-damaged homes could cost city $1M each; the story of NYC’s most colorful apartment building

The city plans to allocate $500 million in NYC taxpayer money for Sandy repairs, as 53 homes in low-lying Queens could cost up to $1 million each to repair. [WSJ] A second art gallery is opening on Roosevelt Island’s Main Street, and its owner thinks others will follow, creating a “mini-Chelsea.” [DNAinfo] The tenement building on the […]

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W train service starts up again November 7th

September 22, 2016

W train service starts up again November 7th

NY1 has learned that the W train will make its triumphant return on Monday, November 7th. The line was taken out of service in 2010, along with the V train, due to MTA budget cuts, but the idea to revive the line came about last summer as a way to better connect Astoria when the Q train is rerouted once the Second Avenue Subway opens. As Curbed notes, at first it will operate between 57th Street and Whitehall Street in Lower Manhattan, but will eventually extend to Astoria-Ditmars Boulevard.
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The Bronx’s Lambert Houses may be replaced with 1,665 affordable housing units

Google Earth view of the current Lambert Houses

September 21, 2016

The Bronx’s Lambert Houses may be replaced with 1,665 affordable housing units

When it comes to the Mayor's affordable housing push, the Bronx is a force to be reckoned with. Not only were more than 43 percent of these units constructed in the first half of the year in the borough, but the City Council recently approved the La Central development, which will bring nearly 1,000 affordable units to Melrose under de Blasio’s mandatory inclusionary housing legislation. Though not part of MIH, another new project may one-up this, ushering in a whopping 1,665 affordable apartments on the site of the Bronx Zoo-bordering Lambert Houses. As CityRealty.com explains, "If proposals are approved, the new mega-development will feature more than double the affordable housing units and triple the existing retail space, create a new public school, and better integrate the community into the surrounding neighborhood."
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Affordable Housing

NYC’s most expensive listing gets a $24M price chop; the meaning behind Grand Central’s chandeliers

September 21, 2016

NYC’s most expensive listing gets a $24M price chop; the meaning behind Grand Central’s chandeliers

New York’s most expensive listing was just reduced from $120 million to $96 million after five months on the market. [LLNYC] MoMA releases a new digital archive of every exhibition they’ve held since 1929. [Open Culture] Is this the world’s most beautiful hot dog cart? [Fast Co. Design] A Long Island brewery used George Washington’s 260-year-old […]

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POLL: Is Journal Square the Next Brooklyn?

September 21, 2016

POLL: Is Journal Square the Next Brooklyn?

These days, everything seems to get the Brooklyn stamp. The Post even went so far as to declare Pennsylvania's Amish Country the new incarnation of the borough. But a bit closer to home, Jersey City's Journal Square is making serious headway in the race to become the next frontier. As CityRealty.com recently explained, the slightly-inland area, easily accessible to Manhattan via the PATH train, is prime for development due to lower land and construction costs than the waterfront. At least 10 major residential projects are planned for Journal Square, and according to Ken Pasternack, chairman of developer KABR Group, "Rents for a new-development high rise will be $40 a square foot here, as opposed to $100 in Manhattan. We’re betting tens of millions of dollars that in the next 10 years, the neighborhood will be a brand on par with Brooklyn."
Do you agree?

Real Estate Trends

Sales launch at Renzo Piano’s first residential project in NYC

September 21, 2016

Sales launch at Renzo Piano’s first residential project in NYC

Last we heard from starchitect Renzo Piano's 565 Broome SoHo, his first residential project in the city, it was March and with construction underway, a slew of new renderings came online of the Soho condominium. Now Curbed reports that sales have finally launched at the pair of glassy, 30-story structures, with currently available units ranging from a $990,000 studio to a $6,135,000 two-bedroom (the penthouses and duplexes will top $20 million). Perhaps the most noteworthy tidbit from the press release is that some residences will feature "enormous private terraces with 25-foot private, saltwater pools," which seems to be a growing trend in the luxury market.
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PHOTOS: Check out NYPL’s new $2.6M ‘Book Train’ conveyor system

September 21, 2016

PHOTOS: Check out NYPL’s new $2.6M ‘Book Train’ conveyor system

Last week, the New York Public Library released stunning photographs of the renovation of its historic Rose Main Reading Room and Bill Blass Public Catalog Room, along with news that the spaces would be reopening to the public on October 5th. As of this day, when guests request research materials, they'll come from a new, $23 million state-of-the-art storage facility below Bryant Park. To bring the materials up, the library installed an innovative conveyor system known as the "book train," which, according to a press release, "consists of 24 individual red cars that run on rails and can seamlessly and automatically transition from horizontal to vertical motion," transporting up to 30 pounds of materials at a time in just five minutes.
Check out photos and video of the Book Train

Policy

Should the 7 train get extended to NJ?; Harlem African Burial Ground memorial moves forward

September 20, 2016

Should the 7 train get extended to NJ?; Harlem African Burial Ground memorial moves forward

The Port Authority plans to release a study that resurfaces the push for an extension of the 7 train to Secaucus. [Politico] Rem Koolhaas’s first NYC building at 121 East 22nd Street gets a teaser site. [CityRealty.com] The Vladimir Lenin statue that sat atop an East Village rental has been removed amid rumors that the […]

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Renderings revealed for Tishman Speyer’s massive, mixed-use developments in Long Island City

Residential tower at 28-10 Jackson Avenue (L); Commercial tower at 28-07 Jackson Avenue (R). Via Tishman Speyer

September 20, 2016

Renderings revealed for Tishman Speyer’s massive, mixed-use developments in Long Island City

There are currently nearly 30 under-construction and proposed projects in Long Island City, which, as 6sqft recently described "is sprouting a small city worth of skyscrapers, ushering in thousands of new residents, hundreds of hotel rooms, and a few hundred thousand square feet of office space." Two big-time projects come from Tishman Speyer Properties, who are erecting a trio of slab residential towers that will together usher in 1,900 new apartments. In a Wall Street Journal piece today, we get a first look at this glassy consortium, along with new details about the developer's adjacent two-towered commercial project that will be home to WeWork, Macy's, and yet another food hall.
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Lowline team releases official proposal for $83M underground park

Lowline Lab via 6sqft

September 20, 2016

Lowline team releases official proposal for $83M underground park

Just a couple months ago, the NYC Economic Development Corporation granted preliminary approvals to the Lowline, the world's first underground park. This came after the city put out a Request for Expressions of Interest (RFEI) late last year for the 60,000-square-foot abandoned trolley terminal below Delancey Street. The Lowline proposal was the only one received, and initially the 154-page document was only to be publicly available through a Freedom of Information Law request, but the group worked with the EDC to release it to the community. The Lo-Down got a look at the document, which reveals everything from the projected cost of the project ($83 million) and operating hours (6am to 9pm, five days a week) to specific design elements like a "ramble" and 1,600-square-foot cafe/bar.
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Stay in NYC’s first shipping container home in Williamsburg for $96/night

September 19, 2016

Stay in NYC’s first shipping container home in Williamsburg for $96/night

There's plenty of cool shipping container architecture that's popped up around the city in recent years, from a retrofitted carriage house to the home of a radio station. But the title of first (legal) home built entirely of recycled containers goes to this architectural gem in Williamsburg, made of six stacked containers totaling 1,600 square feet. The lovely, 320-square-foot ground-floor apartment is now up for rent through Airbnb for a surprisingly affordable $96/night.
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Saudi Prince’s apartment with three panic rooms gets $8.5M price chop; the evolution of pumpkin spice

September 19, 2016

Saudi Prince’s apartment with three panic rooms gets $8.5M price chop; the evolution of pumpkin spice

Greenwood Cemetery will start selling its own honey called “the Sweet Hereafter,” made by its 100,000 bees. [BK Paper] After staying in a Zaha Hadid-designed Madrid hotel, musician Moby said, “Literally sleeping in a dumpster would have been more comfortable.” [LLNYC] Go inside the workshop of architect Robert A.M. Stern during a typical busy workday. [TRD] Saudi […]

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MAP: More millennials live with their parents in the New York region than anywhere in the U.S.

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September 19, 2016

MAP: More millennials live with their parents in the New York region than anywhere in the U.S.

It's no one's dream to live in their parents' basement, but since the recession this has been a growing norm for young adults across the country. As Digg points out, a recent study from the Pew Research Center reports that in 2014, for the first time in 130 years, adults ages 18 to 34 were more likely to live with their parents than with a spouse or partner. They attribute it mainly to the postponement of marriage, fueled by social shifts as well as career and salary concerns. But this trend is not blanketed evenly across the country, and a new map from Metric Maps breaks down the trend by both state and county, which shows us that the Tri-State region has more millennials living at home than anywhere in the U.S.
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City Living

Historic upstate charmer once owned by Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier asks $5.5M

September 19, 2016

Historic upstate charmer once owned by Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier asks $5.5M

After filming "Gone with the Wind," Vivien Leigh lived with husband Laurence Olivier in this charming Greek Revival home in Palisades, New York, and the Post reports that it's now on the market for $4.45 million. Built in the 1820s, it's known as the Captain John House and is located in the upscale hamlet of Snedens Landing, which the couple must really have loved since they also lived in another home here that called Orson Welles and John Steinbeck residents, too.
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UES residents not happy about plan to turn their playground into high-end housing

Google Street View of the Holmes Towers with the playground in question in the foreground

September 19, 2016

UES residents not happy about plan to turn their playground into high-end housing

This past spring, the de Blasio administration revealed plans to lease "empty" NYCHA land--parking lots and grassy areas--for the creation of market-rate housing, which certainly ruffled the feathers of affordable housing advocates. Though the proposal hasn't been set into motion city-wide, it is taking shape at one housing project on the Upper East Side, the Holmes Towers on 92nd to 93rd Streets and 1st to York Avenues. As the Daily News reports, NYCHA recently "described tenant support for the plan to let a developer build 300 units — half market rate, half affordable — where the Holmes playground now sits." But this "tenant stakeholder committee" says they feel very differently.
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Weekly highlights: Top picks from the 6sqft staff

September 17, 2016

Weekly highlights: Top picks from the 6sqft staff

REVEALED: Thomas Heatherwick’s $150M climbable Hudson Yards sculpture ‘The Vessel’ PHOTOS: After two-year renovation, NYPL’s historic Rose Main Reading Room will reopen October 5th AECOM wants to turn Red Hook into a 45,000-unit mega-development with new subway connection Judge orders Sean Lennon to remove tree that’s damaging Marisa Tomei’s parents’ house Ex-Fox News chair Roger […]

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Hamptons estate where Jackie O spent her childhood summers lists for $50M

September 16, 2016

Hamptons estate where Jackie O spent her childhood summers lists for $50M

6sqft has already taken a look at the posh Upper East Side building where Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis grew up, and now we can go inside the 100-year-old Hamptons estate where she spent her childhood summers. As the Wall Street Journal first reported, the 11-acre property in East Hampton known as Lasata is currently owned by fashion designer and former Coach executive Reed Krakoff, who's listed the entire Arts and Crafts-style residence for more than $50 million.
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432 Park’s first model penthouse unveiled; fictional NYC apartments get real

September 16, 2016

432 Park’s first model penthouse unveiled; fictional NYC apartments get real

As Garment District landlords hand over leases to higher-paying nightlife tenants, three more longtime fabric stores on West 39th Street will close by the end of the year. [DNAinfo] The replica of Syria’s Palmrya Triumphal Arch, destroyed by ISIS, will arrive in City Hall Park next week. [Untapped] With shows like “Girls” and “Broad City,” the fictional NYC […]

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Image © Thomas X. Casey, BronxNYC

September 16, 2016

Bronx building boom leads to a population comeback not seen in over 40 years

A recent report from the New York Building Congress outlined how the Bronx had outpaced four-year frontrunner Brooklyn for the most residential permits issued, which was attributed in large part to the affordable housing push in the borough. And a story in the Times today takes a wider look at the borough's resurgence, noting that this building boom has led to a "population comeback" not seen since the 1970s.
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City Living

One World Trade Center not for sale after all (at least not yet)

September 16, 2016

One World Trade Center not for sale after all (at least not yet)

Last week, 6sqft reported that the Port Authority would sell One World Trade Center for up to $5 billion due in part to vacancy issues and the fact that the tower only brought in $13 million in revenue last year, a mere 0.35 percent return on the agency's investment. But Authority chairman John Degnan said yesterday to Politico that "It’s certainly not on the block. We’re not talking to any brokers about it." This doesn't however, mean that the agency has changed its stance that it will one day "divest and monetize in non-transportation-related holdings."
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Bill Murray to serve up cocktails in Greenpoint; No more web browsing at wi-fi kiosks due to lewd behavior

September 15, 2016

Bill Murray to serve up cocktails in Greenpoint; No more web browsing at wi-fi kiosks due to lewd behavior

Bjarke Ingels, “the man building the future,” gets the Rolling Stone treatment. [Rolling Stone] Bill Murray is bartending this weekend at his son’s new cocktail bar in Greenpoint. [TONY] The return of the Astor Place cube, aka The Alamo, is delayed yet again due to “unforeseen logistical issues.” [DNAinfo] Joy Behar bought a gorgeous $4.5 million Victorian […]

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Plan to close 14th Street to cars during L train shutdown gains steam with feasibility study

September 15, 2016

Plan to close 14th Street to cars during L train shutdown gains steam with feasibility study

One of many ideas to mitigate the forthcoming L train shutdown in 2019 (in addition to others such as the East River Skyway, more bike lanes, and even an inflatable tunnel) is to shut down 14th Street to vehicular traffic and make it a bus-only zone. The idea was first presented in June by State Senator Brad Hoylman, and now he and a group of his government colleagues have won a request to the MTA for a traffic feasibility study of the proposal that they say will "relieve congestion and improve traffic flow."
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REVEALED: Thomas Heatherwick’s $150M climbable Hudson Yards sculpture ‘The Vessel’

September 14, 2016

REVEALED: Thomas Heatherwick’s $150M climbable Hudson Yards sculpture ‘The Vessel’

It was nearly three years ago that Related Companies chairman Stephen Ross boasted that Hudson Yards' public art piece would be "New York’s Eiffel Tower," and after an unveiling today of the massive sculpture that will anchor the central public space, it seems he might not have been too far off.
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