Bloomberg Bets On the Future
Over the next 20 years, New York City is expected to add one million residents. Imagine airlifting the entire populations of Boston and Miami into the five boroughs, and you’ll have some idea of the massive strain which will be placed on the city’s infrastructure, from its subways and streets Read More
Representative Jerry Nadler came out swinging last night at the scoping meeting for the New York Economic Development Corporation’s planned redevelopment for Piers 7 through 10 on the Carroll Gardens/Red Hook Waterfront. Mr. Nadler opposed the transformation of Pier 10–currently used for maritime shipping–into a second cruise-ship terminal and 250-room hotel.
Citing the vulnerability Read More
Oliver Stone’s World Trade Center is a spectacular film about New York City, how it wakes up before dawn every day, how millions of people find their way into the city every day—and how it all came to a stop on Sept. 11, 2001. After so much talk about how and why the attacks took Read More
Oliver Stone’s World Trade Center is a spectacular film about New York City, how it wakes up before dawn every day, how millions of people find their way into the city every day—and how it all came to a stop on Sept. 11, 2001. After so much talk about how and why the attacks took Read More
Daniel Libeskind’s plan for the redevelopment of Ground Zero may have won critical acclaim, but at least one powerful voice has begun to grumble. Westfield America, the retail-mall monolith that operated retail space in the Twin Towers, has become increasingly disgruntled with the redevelopment process and has raised objections to key elements of the design. Read More
The Bloomberg administration is pursuing a strategy to take over the World Trade Center site that will likely increase pressure on developer Larry Silverstein to abandon his interests in the rebuilding effort, according to a Port Authority source familiar with the city’s position.
Mr. Silverstein, who headed a consortium that signed a 99-year lease on Read More
Will the real architect of the World Trade Center site please stand up?
When seven teams of architects were selected in December to develop plans for Ground Zero, New Yorkers unaccustomed to the kinds of pitched battles that accompany any serious development project here might have assumed that one of the nine plans presented would Read More
Some Fear West Side Ferry Terminal
May Create Double Terrorist Target
For years, Community Board 4 has been involved in the planning and design of a state-of-the-art commuter ferry terminal on Pier 79, at the end of West 39th Street. Following the attack on the World Trade Center, when ferries were the only way Read More
On April 30, city planners and architects gathered at the New York Marriott Financial Center for a final question-and-answer period before the May 6 deadline for applying for the biggest job in the city-and possibly the world: redeveloping the 16-acre site where the World Trade Center once stood.
The cutoff date is less than a Read More
