Posts Tagged ‘construction’
On Washington Heights Monopoly: Condominium for 573-575 West 161st, 577-579 a Mystery Excavation
In which The Gay Recluse provides an update on a beehive of activity at 573-579 West 161st Street. So it’s official, if “official” means by way of an unnamed receptionist at the architects’s office: 573-575 West 161st Street is going to be a 6-story condominium. We’re trying to scrounge up a rendering, but in the […]
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Tags: Church, Condominiums, construction, Doctors, Excavation, Permits
In which The Gay Recluse says goodbye to the cruelest month. Our hands were shaking a little bit, here. (It’s been a tough few weeks, hasn’t it?)
Filed under: Architecture, City Pattern Project, Landscape, New York City, Photography | Leave a Comment
Tags: City Patterns, construction, Cranes, T.S. Eliot
On the End of November
You will be relieved to learn that the scaffolding we told you about is finally coming down; but to reveal what, exactly? A new apartment palace, a refurbished monument to gilded living? Well, perhaps for some, but as we watch the men arrive in their trucks to disassemble the steel beams and wooden planks, we are not as pleased as you might have expected. We […]
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Tags: Aging, construction, hope, remorse, renovation, Weather
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