I had no idea this was an annual eventClear your mind and expectations, as this is not a typical Manhattan Loft Guy diversion. On August 1, at 5 PM, the city of Warsaw comes to a stop for 60 seconds…
Tag: History
watching Tribeca grow up: another loft neighborhood pioneer profiled
lovely piece from a great resourceI’ve been meaning to write about The Broadsheet Daily, which I never look for in hard copy (published bi-weekly and available in residential building lobbies in Battery Park City and elsewhere in lower Manhattan) because…
Tagged with: 1980s, Battery Park City, Broadsheet Daily, Change, History, Memory Lane, Pediatrics, Pioneer
it is a free country (still), but this should be mandatory reading
handwritten facsimile or plain text; your choiceA quick note and holiday link-a-pallooza before heading out to the ‘burbs for family grilling and sitting by the pool. I added the last bullet point below to link to last year’s post, form…
a Manhattan loft pioneer (of a different sort) remembers, records
a mutual admiration society is revealedIf you are a fan of Manhattan lofts (that’s everybody, right?), you are familiar with the work of architect Joseph Pell Lombardi. He worked on the conversion or construction of the Mohawk Atelier at 161…
Tagged with: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, Architect, Essay, History, Joseph Pell Lombardi, New Development, Soho, Tribeca
for Memorial Day, remember & learn before eating & drinking
reprise I & reprise III don’t think I can put it any better than I said it two years ago: Every American service member who has died in service is a tragedy for his or her family and for a…
Collect Pond loft at 366 Broadway sells at $918/ft after missing The Peak
going emo on a business transaction There’s a mild puzzle in the recent sale of the “1,872 sq ft” Manhattan loft #3B at 366 Broadway (Collect Pond House) at $1.72mm, as it sounds like a beautiful loft that went for…
Tagged with: broadway, Collect Pond, Comps, Conundrum, Diappointed Seller, History, Mint, Neighbor, Peak, Renovation
Sunday diversion / has to be baseball by now, right?
or, at least baseball relatedIf you think this guy on Grantland is a sanctimonious jerk, so what? Read it anyway. (I don’t think he was under the desk next to me in 1962; I remember doing this in the hallway.)…
7-figure discount gets 15 Union Square West loft sold after 3 years
reading the writing on the (glass) wallsI checked via The Google: although the duplexed “2,282 sq ft” Manhattan loft #3D at 15 Union Square West is the 7th loft in this oh-so-luxe 36-unit condo conversion to close below my $5mm…
Tagged with: Castiron, Ceilings, Conversion, Duplex, History, New Development, Tiffanys, Union Square, Union Square West, Windows
NY Post goes into the way back machine: Flower District in 1979
fur on the walls, gardenias in the airWonderful piece in today’s New York Post real estate section about an artist / mystery writer and wife who moved into a Flower District loft in 1979 that had last been a furrier’s…
Tagged with: 1979, Change, Flower District, Gentrification, Groff Studios, History, Longandnarrow, Ny Post, Pioneer, West 28
audio books owe a debt to Manhattan lofts / WPA edition of a weekend diversion
I loves me some ‘netIn linking today to this Maggie Gram piece on n+1 (and excerpting a paragraph) I am sure that Andrew Sullivan meant only to tie the modern fascination with audio books to efforts to respond to World…
Tagged with: 1930s, Architects, Blind, Fashion, Fdr, History, Mcgrawhill, Publishing, Tenth Avenue, Wpa
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