The Sheriff of Landmarks

LOCATION: The controversy over 980 Madison Avenue has yet to be resolved, but the Landmarks Preservation Commission made it clear in late January that developer Aby Rosen will have to change the scope of his planned 30-story condo tower atop the historic building. What has been the commission’s thinking on 980 Madison?

TIERNEY: It’s the Read More

The Afternoon Wrap: Friday

  • One can tell critic Martin Fuller doesn’t like Tom Wolfe by modest statements like: “From Bauhaus to Our House [is] perhaps the most ill-informed book ever written about architecture.” [House + Garden]
  • If you fit into the “bonus buyers and moneyed type” category, DUMBO is surely a perfect fit. And a chilly February Read More

  • Why Wolfe Goes After the Landmarks Commission–A Theory

    Is author, sartorial superman, and sometime journalist Tom Wolfe milking the Landmarks Preservation Commission for publicity? Some think so, according to the Village Voice.

    Mr. Wolfe, an Upper East Sider through and through, has made a hobby of late lampooning and lambasting the commission, dubbing it ineffectual and a pawn of powerful mayors. But Read More

    Preservationists Cry Wolfe; We've Got Their Numbers

    On the sleepy last Sunday in November, Tom Wolfe flipped a middle finger at the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission. The writer, still angry about the commission’s decision last year not to landmark 2 Columbus Circle, essentially called the commission pawns of the developer class in the city’s booming real-estate market.

    “ … The Landmarks Preservation Read More

    Preservationists Cry Wolfe; We’ve Got Their Numbers

    On the sleepy last Sunday in November, Tom Wolfe flipped a middle finger at the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission. The writer, still angry about the commission’s decision last year not to landmark 2 Columbus Circle, essentially called the commission pawns of the developer class in the city’s booming real-estate market.

    “ … The Landmarks Preservation Read More