While this is not directly architecture or planning related, I want to cover a new company called JumpPost.com because it’s still important to address the (in)efficiencies of what drive and support new construction, new architecture and ultimately how it affects you & me. JumpPost is a new way to list your apartment for rent without [...]
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COOL COMPANY ALERT: JumpPost.com
Posted in bronx, brooklyn, manhattan, queens, staten island, tagged new york city, real estate, jumppost, rental, apartment, craigslist on March 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I Have to Pee!: PUBLIC BATHROOMS IN NYC
Posted in bronx, brooklyn, manhattan, queens, staten island, tagged astor place, bathroom, belgium, bloomberg, brooklyn, bryant park, cemusa, david dinkins, east village, france, freud, guiliani, henry miller, herald square, italy, MTA, paris, public, robert moses, seinfeld, subway, toilet, williamsburg on February 7, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Recently untappednewyork discovered this at Bedford Avenue and N.7th in Williamsburg. Looks like something is in the works for 2010!
I first became intrigued with public bathrooms upon seeing the reppropriation of the Astor Place women’s room into a newsstand. Then I began to notice larger stand-alone beaux-arts buildings, and began to dig further. Today, the [...]
In Pictures: MANHATTANHENGE SUNRISE
Posted in manhattan, tagged manhattan, manhattanhenge, new york city, stonehenge, street grid, streets, sunrise, urban on January 20, 2010 | 2 Comments »
January 2010 Manhattenhenge sunrise captured by untappednewyork.com photographer Monica Morrison on 34th Street.
Previous posts about Manhattanhenge: Sunset Photos and about the phenomenon.
THE PRISONS AMONG US
Posted in bronx, brooklyn, manhattan, queens, staten island, tagged bill thompson, brooklyn detention center, city hall, correctional facilities, harlem, hunts point, jean nouvel, jefferson market library, Kate Ascher, prisons, riker's island, sunset park, the tombs, The Works, world trade center on January 4, 2010 | 8 Comments »
The word infrastructure usually conjures up images of roads, highways, bridges and mass transit. One thing that Kate Ascher taught me is that the really interesting stuff is what you don’t see. The idea for her captivating book, The Works, came while observing the aftermath of the World Trade Center attacks. All of a sudden [...]
MANHATTANHENGE: Sunrise
Posted in manhattan, tagged CSI, equinox, manhattan, manhattanhenge, new york city, solstice, stonehenge, street grid, streets, sun, sunrise, sunset, urban on November 26, 2009 | 3 Comments »
When posting about the Manhattanhenge sunset earlier this year, I had found information from Time Out New York that the sunrise edition would occur on 11/30 . There does not appear to be any official astrological confirmation online regarding when this year’s sunrise is, so I’ve decided to be an astrologer and do my own [...]
AUTOMATS, TAXI DANCES and VAUDEVILLE: Manhattan’s Lost Places of Leisure
Posted in manhattan, tagged atlantic garden, automats, beer hall, bowery, chinatown, david freeland, entertainment, history, immigration, leisure, manhattan, new york city, preservation, theater, vaudeville on November 24, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Secret passageways under Chinatown, remnants of a bygone Bowery beer hall, a rooftop film studio…Author David Freeland writes of these and more in his book Automats, Taxi Dances and Vaudeville: Excavating Manhattan’s Lost Places of Leisure. Freeland seeks to find continuity through history, using the lens of leisure activity in New York. He is more [...]
CLUB LIMELIGHT aka Church of the Holy Communion
Posted in manhattan, tagged architecture, avalon, big box store, chelsea, church, club, consumerism, evangelical, Landmark, limelight, manhattan, new york city, preservation, religion, repurposing, retrofitting suburbia, tunnel, wal mart on October 21, 2009 | 4 Comments »
It can be argued that only in the repurposing of architecture can the lines between commerce, religion and politics be truly contested. In suburbia, Wal-Marts and big box stores have been converted into evangelical megachurches. The connection between commerce and religion is not only isolated to the retrofitting of built structures, but writers also frame [...]
EMPIRE STATE Pays Tribute to the Grateful Dead
Posted in manhattan, tagged architecture, empire state building, grateful dead, manhattan, music, skyscraper on October 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Not sure how long this is going to last, but as of tonight the Empire State Building has gone tie-dye in honor of the Grateful Dead and an upcoming exhibition curated by the New York Historical Society, slated for March 2010. The exhibition will be culled almost entirely from the Grateful Dead archive, featuring “an [...]
SECRET BURGER
Posted in manhattan, tagged architecture, burgers, central park, damien hirst, food, hotels, manhattan, midtown, new york city, public space on July 23, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I may be a little biased because “Burger Joint” is where I met my band before we were a band, but this little faux-dive has a deserved cult following. We call it “Secret Burger” because it’s hidden inside the lobby of the impossibly posh Le Parker Meridien hotel, tucked behind thick floor to ceiling curtains [...]
URBAN ESCAPES: Get Out of the Bubble!
Posted in beyond the boroughs, manhattan, tagged ecology, Environment, manhattan, mannahatta, new york city, Outdoors, Recreation, speakeasy, Sustainability, urban escapes on July 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
A visit to the Mannahatta/Manhattan exhibit at the Museum of the City of [...]
