When the news broke last month that the Whitney Museum had sold an octet of brownstones next to its Marcel Breuer home on the Upper West Side, it intensified rumors that the institution planned to someday fully abandon the neighborhood for the new museum it is building next to the High Line. Now that Read More
The teeth-chattering classes over at the new Times building are packing extra sweaters this morning after getting an email from executive editor Bill Keller about how cold the newsroom (or parts of it!) are during the present cold snap.
It seems that the elevator shafts and loading docks in the state-of-the-art Renzo-Piano designed building are Read More
Hale and Hearty Soup chain founders Andrew and Jonathan Schnipper have leased the last empty retail space in The New York Times Building.
The brothers will be opening a new restaurant concept described as "an updated version of a classic roadside eatery serving burgers, salads and other American favorites in a fast casual, relaxed setting," Read More
The Renzo Piano-designed new New York Times tower won’t be open for media tours until August, according to a spokeswoman for Forest City Ratner, the co-developer, and so far, Times architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff, who must have a front-row seat, has not broken the embargo.
But blogger greenbuildingsNYC got a sneak preview Read More
The New York Times is giving up five floors in its new Eighth Avenue building before it even moves in.
The Renzo Piano-designed headquarters, expected to open later this year, will be co-owned by the newspaper company and the developer Forest City Ratner. On Tuesday, they announced that floors 23 through 27, which were in Read More
Japanese retailer Muji has signed the first retail lease at the future New York Times headquarters on Eighth Avenue. The retailer, with products supposedly based on a “philosophy of simplicity, minimalism and consumer functionality,” has taken 5,000 square feet in the tower for its American flagship.
The store, according to a release from Times tower Read More
The lease for the New York Times Building was pretty specific about keeping out downmarket chain stores. So it’s no surprise that the first retail tenant to sign up is MUJI, an “environmentally conscious retailer based in Japan,” whose products can be picked up in the MoMA Design Store.
Full release after the Read More
From an announcement from The New York Times’ internal website, a note of architectural interest: This morning, Thursday, Oct 19th at 7:30 a.m., the second section of the mast at the top of our new building will be raised into position. This is the beginning of a process that will see three more lifts and Read More
