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Here's the complete series on Gentrification in Chinatown: Prestige and its deceptions and betrayals Prestige and distortion in Chin...

Here is the complete list of posts, in order, in the series on The History of the Tenement in New York (I've included the popular A his...

Garbage transformed New York forever. It preserved the old and turned the new into the spectacular and grandiose. How? Here's the story....

Stanford White: a rich man's architect for whom interior design was as important or more important than the facade or the structure. Aft...

Here's what's most wrong with bureaucracy. The categories of right and wrong are budgetary items, not human concerns. Where the budg...

Here's a very  brief snippet from the Occupy AltBank talk on zoning and affordable housing last week posted on facebook by Sumumba Sobu...

I'm almost done, and saved best for last. Most terra cotta between 1880 and 1901 was cast in the mold of the British architectural fashi...

A quick post today on the signatures of tenement designers. The Herter Brothers were German-Americans who worked for many Jewish clients alt...

We began this series on tenements with the question, "why are some tenements so ornate?" Why would the tenement owner bother with ...

Here's an easy quiz. You'll find the cornice bust below on Broome Street. It was built in the 1890's when the neighborhood was l...

A few years back, Greenwich Village Society for Historical Preservation, one of the city's preeminent preservationist organizations, dre...

Tenement styles coincidentally coordinate with housing laws. Prior to any housing law, tenements were built like townhouses but a bit taller...