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In Memoriam: Ada Louise Huxtable

Ada Louise Huxtable, photographed by Alfred Eisenstaedt for Life Magazine, 1974. (image courtesy of Dwell) Yesterday, legendary architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable died at the age of 91 at Memorial…

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Adapting “Adaptive Re-Use”

Rick Kelly of Carmine Street Guitars gives new meaning to the term adaptive reuse The term adaptive reuse is used by architects and preservationists to describe the process of adapting…

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Louise Bryant

…studio in which to write and paint. Portrait of Louise Bryant by John Henry Trullinger By 1915, Louise was a star in Portland, but was dissatisfied living a bourgeois life…

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Adaptive Reuse in Chelsea

Simply put, adaptive reuse is defined as the process of adapting old structure for new uses.  From a preservation perspective, adaptive reuse is often a wonderful way to preserve historic…

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A Look Back at the Public Theater

…the city’s more notable white elephants, fated to go the way of Penn Station and the Brokaw mansion”, in the words of well-known critic Ada Louise Huxtable in a fascinating…

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Great NYC Museums Go #BeyondTheVillageAndBack

…Times architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable noted that the inverted ziggurat-like structure had quickly become “the most disliked building in New York.” However, Huxtable also wrote that the building was…

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NoHo Historic District Becomes a Reality

…well-known critic Ada Louise Huxtable in a fascinating 1966 New York Times article. Entitled “A Landmark Saved: Historic Building Scheduled for Razing Is Rescued With Aid of City’s New Law,” the article describes…

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LGBTQ+ Pride Programs Roundup

Adams ran Eve Adams Tea Room on MacDougal Street in the South Village. Adams’ work caught the attention of the young U.S. Bureau of Investigation, leading to her surveillance, arrest,…

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The Federal Style Explained

…New York, Ada Louise Huxtable described the Federal style as refined and decorous, “the architecture of good breeding and good manners.” To help understand and appreciate the Federal style and…

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The Federal Style Begins

…“After the Revolution,” wrote Ada Louise Huxtable in Classic New York, “in the time of the new republic, Georgian [style architecture] becomes Federal.” Within that Georgian framework, “there are decorative…

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Picturing the World Trade Center

…from Greenwich Village. Another image from Robert Frish, this one from 1993. On April 5. 1973, the day following the WTC’s Grand Opening, NY Times architectural critic Ada Louise Huxtable

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The Hare Krishna Tree

…the center of the park was the site of the birth of the Hare Krishna movement in the United States in 1966. Srila Prabhupada (1896-1977). As the New York Times…

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Celebrity Trees of Our Neighborhoods

…coming to the United States in September of 1965, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1896–1977), the Indian spiritual leader, founded the International Society for Krishna Consciousness in New York. He worked…

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Manhattan’s Last Remaining Bath Houses

…were decommissioned following World War II, and the question then became what to do with these still relatively young, sizable, City-owned structures. There were various favored solutions. Several were adapted…

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Suffragists of Greenwich Village

…Change) and lobbied her father for the passage of a constitutional amendment granting women the right to vote. Louise Bryant Louise Bryant and Patchin Place Louise Bryant was a fearless…

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My Favorite Things: Ice Cream Edition!

…sorts of cookies. One of the most interesting things La Newyorkina serves is a Chamoyada. Chamoyada are made with different fruit “ices”, pickled plum sauce called chamoy, salted chile and…

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Changing Fashion of New York

…2nd Avenue, west side between 2nd & 3rd Streets, looking south in 1969. In the late 1960s, spiritual leader Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada arrived in New York to spread his…

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Celebrating National Pastry Day

…The diversity of empanada options is fortunately on full display in our neighborhoods. While this is a far from comprehensive list, Columbian restaurant Nadas at 48 Greenwich Street is one…

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Happy Birthday, Richard Meier

…in Los Angeles, California, Meier had some of his earliest commissions right here in our neighborhood, involving adapting historic, industrial spaces for use by artists.  One we got landmarked in…

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Which Building is Greenest?

…alternative than the adaptive reuse and rehabilitation of historic buildings. So, which building is greenest? The Greenest Building movie A new documentary, “The Greenest Building,” seeks to answer that question…

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My mind was really wandering today…

adaptive re-use of historic buildings (which, to me anyway, is also recycling.) (You can see pictures and video of this lecture if you missed it.) Last June, Françoise took some…

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Westbeth Announced: August 7th, 1967

…and three-bedroom apartments, gallery, theater, and commercial spaces, and large landscaped park and courtyard, occurred in 1967-70, at a time when the adaptive reuse of buildings was in its infancy…

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GVSHP 2016 Book List & Holiday Gift Ideas

Ada Calhoun- St. Marks Is Dead: The Many Lives of America’s Hippest Street A vibrant narrative history of three hallowed Manhattan blocks―the epicenter of American cool. St. Marks Place in…

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Taking on REBNY and Winning

…you can see from the above letter which we recently stumbled upon, REBNY was an adamant opponent of designation of the Greenwich Village Historic District when it was first proposed…

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Historic Photo Mystery Solved!

Ada Calhoun on her newly released book St. Marks is Dead. Watch her full, very entertaining presentation here. Calhoun, a St. Marks native, has been a crime reporter for the New York Post, a…

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