(Museum of the City of New York) TODAY, the building still stands, although it is a bit less lively as a home for a CVS store and a Bank of America branch. Just around the corner is the famed Stonewall Inn. (Google Maps Image) According to the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project: ....
OVER COMPENSATING, PERHAPS…Designed by architectEric Gugler, the proposed granite obelisk for Battery Park would have been windowless, 80 feet square at its base and rising to a height of 800 feet. Thankfully it was never, ahem, “erected.” (NYC Urbanism@nycurbanism) Mumford also addressed ...
Pro-ecology agitprop has rarely if ever been so eloquently expressed than in Dr. Seuss’ 1971 story. “Welcome to Thneedville, a city they say that was plastic and fake. And they liked it that way! No nature, no flowers. No one seemed to mind. But a sec