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Oct. 22, 2015 / Gordon Price

October in New York: They're probably speaking French

When 50 million visitors come every year to New York, you can expect to hear the world’s languages all around…
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Oct. 21, 2015 / Gordon Price

October in New York: Parking lots, slivers and stories

I noticed this building at 785 8th Avenue, now known as the Icon, on a previous trip.  It’s still weird:…
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Oct. 21, 2015 / Gordon Price

October in New York: The Ultimate Corporate Streetscape

When Rockefeller Center was extended across Sixth Avenue in the late 1950s and ’60s, architect Wallace Harrison fashioned, it that’s the…
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Oct. 21, 2015 / Gordon Price

October in New York: Bad City

Commenter ‘Frank Sinatra’ noted below that “your constant love for NYC is a bit much to take.”    Actually, I thought…
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Oct. 21, 2015 / Gordon Price

October in New York: A Tree Grows in The Bronx

Coincidentally, from the New York Times: Bronx Planting Caps Off a Drive to Add a Million Trees . In a…
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Oct. 20, 2015 / Gordon Price

October in New York: Playtime in the Park

  Here’s how New Yorkers amuse themselves in a rather New Yorky way.  First, playing beach volleyball in a crowded…
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Oct. 20, 2015 / Gordon Price

October in New York: New Views

Well, old views with new additions – taken from the Sheep Meadow. Here’s that supertall on 57th at Park (more…
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Oct. 20, 2015 / Gordon Price

October in New York: The Sheep Meadow

Is Central Park the greatest urban space of its kind in the world?  Possibly. And is the Sheep Meadow the…
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Oct. 19, 2015 / Gordon Price

October in New York: The Burnished, Glowing City

As remarked, the weather was extraordinary – unparalleled in my experience of visiting the city since the 1970s.  Perfect warmth…
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Oct. 19, 2015 / Gordon Price

October in New York: Supertalls – 2

It’s not as though supertall residential buildings are anything new in New York.  The 1920s produced some of the tallest…
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Oct. 19, 2015 / Gordon Price

October in New York: Supertalls

This particular architectural and development era – at least in Manhattan – will unquestionably be associated with the supertall condos…
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Oct. 19, 2015 / Gordon Price

October in New York

Found them! Here are the stairs I went in search of: the flight leading down to the High Bridge, one…
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Sep. 22, 2015 / Gordon Price

Weirdness in New York

Michael Alexander thinks we could have this too if we only built the subway on Broadway: .…
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Aug. 25, 2015 / Gordon Price

Can Our Transit System Get Any Worse?

Not Vancouver’s (ours is good, we just enjoy trashing it.)  But this anaylsis by Thomas K. Wright, the president of…

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