Architects are known for being sticklers, cantankerous even. They spend their lives experimenting with shapes and forms, so it only seems fitting that their grave markers would be just as distinctive.
Developer Hudson Companies fought off a lawsuit by a local group this past summer, and the Brooklyn Heights branch was closed in July for the redevelopment. In the interim, the Brooklyn Heights branch is operating out of a nearby church.
The site was once home to the tallest building in Brooklyn, Hotel Margaret, but that building was destroyed in a fire in 1980. The Witnesses purchased it in 1986 and housed many of their headquarters staff there in subsequent years.
Among the 10 least expensive market-rate homes for sale in East Boston right now, the most expensive are relatively tiny condos. How's that work, exactly?
In a one-night-only performance at Skirball Cultural Center, director Sam Green and Yo La Tengo will perform Green's live film on the visionary Buckminster Fuller. Curbed asked Green and Yo La Tengo guitarist Ira Kaplan about the project.
A little more than a year after construction began, the housing lottery for 5 Blue Slip, one of Greenpoint Landing’s affordable rentals, is open, with apartments intended for extremely low to low-income New Yorkers.