Take a look at that picture and guess where I am today. C’mon, guess. That’s a woodcut of the New York Metropolitans playing at their last home, the St. George Cricket Grounds in State Island, having moved out of the [first] Polo Grounds in upper Manhattan. I am today, possibly as you read this, at …
This is my last reminder that next Tuesday will be the sixth and last session in the Work In Progress lecture series at the Skyscraper Museum. Like the other lectures in the series, it will be available live via Zoom and YouTube, and afterwards it will be available recorded on YouTube. Like the picture above …
After all this time, I still find it disorienting to read the news and find one of our projects being discussed. In this case, it’s the end (or nearly so) of a long saga for the South Bushwick Reformed Church in Brooklyn, a beautiful wood-frame building from 1853 that looks like it belongs on a …
That’s a picture of the 23rd Street station of the original IRT subway under construction, probably in 1903. That station is now part of the Lexington Avenue line and you can find that stair, although the passageway that makes up the left side of the photo is partially hidden and partially altered. The platform for …
Most of the time, there are few topics more boring than professional practice. As long as a lawyer I’m talking to has passed the bar exam and is licensed, for example, I don’t care about the details of their continuing education. Every once in a while, a problem in this topic crops up in an …
