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6sqft’s series “My sqft” checks out the homes of New Yorkers across all the boroughs. Our latest interior adventure brings us to the West Village apartment of real estate mogul, entrepreneur, and professional jetsetter Emir Bahadir. Want to see your home featured here? Get in touch!
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial featuring Fala, via Wikimedia
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Though many people have their gripes with New York City’s public transportation system, a new study says it’s No. 1 in North America — at least when it comes to sustainability. New York City earned the top spot out of 23 United States and Canadian cities in the Sustainability Cities Mobility Index, a report out Monday by Arcadis, […]
Conceptual renderings of Bayswater Park, one of the seven resilience projects to help protect the Rockaways from future storms, via NYC Office of the Mayor
With coastal storms and flooding set to become more common, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a $145 million investment to help protect the Rockaways. The mayor made the announcement Sunday on the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Sandy, which wreaked havoc on New York City in 2012. The Rockaways in Queens were hit particularly hard, and the peninsula […]
Rendering of 550 Madison Avenue, via DBOX/ Snøhetta
Photo courtesy of the MTA on Flickr
292-314 Kent. Rendering by Practice for Architecture and Urbanism via Landmarks Preservation Commission.
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Rendering of 695 Grand Street courtesy of St. Nicks Alliance & NYHC
It has been five years since Superstorm Sandy devastated homes and buildings across New York, and the city has been in the process of repairing itself ever since. Along with rebuilding the homes that were affected by the storm, new developments have continued to pop up in vulnerable flood zones. More than 85 percent of […]
First glimpse of Jeremy Edmiston’s “Unhistoric Townhouse” at 187 Franklin Street. Photo courtesy of Tribeca Citizen.
Rendering of Elton Crossing courtesy of Magnusson Architecture and Planning
Cubic MTA payment system. Rendering courtesy of Cubic Corporation.
Crane with wrecking ball mounted on the trestle. Photo by Peter H. Fritsch (1962). Photo courtesy of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation/Fritsch Family Collection.
Just weeks after activists staged an alternative tour of the American Museum of Natural History to call for its removal, among other things, the equestrian statue of Teddy Roosevelt was vandalized early Thursday morning. The base of the statue, which is maintained by the city’s Department of Parks and not the AMNH, was splattered with red paint […]
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Rendering via DBOX for Meganom
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Photo of the L-train via Wikimedia
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Autumn in New York is one of the most majestic times of year—until those beautiful leaves you’re peeping fall on train tracks. So while we’re all oohing and ahhing over the changing trees, the MTA’s leaf-fighting season is in full swing, just in time for the wet weather on the horizon for Tuesday. Crews from the Long Island […]
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Photo courtesy of Lord & Taylor
Flooded Battery Park Tunnel after Hurricane Sandy. Image: Timothy Krause via Flickr.
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