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Tag Archives: Battery Park
Pier A Gets an A
THE LAST SURVIVING HISTORIC PIER IN NEW YORK CITY, Pier A at Battery Park in lower Manhattan, was ripe for adaptive re-use. Built in the 1880s, with a clock tower added in 1919 as a World War I memorial, it … Continue reading
Yachting Around Manhattan with the AIA
I LEARNED MANY NEW THINGS on Classic Harbor Line‘s architecture-focused “Around Manhattan Now” cruise last Friday, and was reminded of others I once knew but had forgotten. For example: the Statue of Liberty never gets old. She just doesn’t. Every … Continue reading
Posted in BROOKLYN, MANHATTAN, QUEENS, TRAVEL
Tagged 200 West Street, 59th Street Bridge, AIA, American Institute of Architects, Arthur Platt, Battery Park, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Chelsea Piers, Classic Harbor Line, Domino Sugar factory, Ellis Island, Fink & Platt, Frank Gehry, Freedom Tower, George Washington Bridge, Harlem River, High Line, Jane's Carousel, Jean Nouvel, Little Red Lighthouse, Long Island City, MANHATTAN, New York Chapter, Pepsi sign, Peter J. Sharp Boathouse, Robert A.M.Stern, SHoP Architects, South Street Seaport, Spruce Street, Spuyten Duyvil Bridge, Starrett-Lehigh Building, Statue of Liberty, Triborough Bridge, Trump Soho, Tsao McKown, Tuckitaway Storage, UN Headquarters, Washington Bridge, William Beaver, yacht, Yankee Stadium
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BOOK REVIEW Garden Guide: New York City
NEW YORK in 2011 is truly a great garden city. World-class, I’d venture to say. Yet, as Nancy Berner and Susan Lowry point out in the newly revised edition of Garden Guide: New York City (W.W. Norton, $22.95), as recently as … Continue reading
Posted in BOOK REVIEW, GARDENS & GARDENING, LANDSCAPING, MANHATTAN
Tagged Battery Park, botanic gardens, Bronx, Bronx County Courthouse Greenroof Garden, Chelsea, Conservatory Garden, Dyckman Farmhouse, Garden Guide: New York City, gardens, Greek Revival, Greenacre Park, greenroof garden, High Line, Irish Hunger Memorial, Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum, Lotus Garden, Morris-Jumel, Mount Vernon Hotel, Nancy Berner, NEW YORK CITY, Piet Oudolf, Queens Botanical Garden, Red Hook, revised edition, Snug Harbor, Staten Island, Susan Lowry, W.W. Norton
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