…City some twenty years before Robert Moses would convince Mayor LaGuardia to use Gracie Mansion. In 1920, Wanamaker purchased his home, 12 Washington Sq North, a beautiful row house that…
Read More…number of times before it was sold, in 1883, to Sephardic Jewish merchant Moses Lazarus, who made his fortune with the firm Johnson & Lazarus, which imported and sold sugar. Lazarus had…
Read More…this time, Robert Moses had proposed running a highway through Washington Square. It would have been an extension of Fifth Avenue called Fifth Avenue South. Jane Jacobs Stanley and the…
Read More…Landmarks Preservation Commission has failed to do so. Today, we take a closer look at 72 Fifth Avenue, and ask: why isn’t this landmarked? History In 1893 Marx and Moses…
Read More…Emergency Committee to Close Washington Square Park to Traffic. This explicitly named group successfully fought a Robert Moses-led plan to create an expressway through the park. The interview explores the…
Read More…park. Since its transformation to artists’ housing, Diane Arbus, Merce Cunningham, Moses Gunn, Hans Haacke, and Gil Evans, among countless other artists, lived or worked at Westbeth. Westbeth remains an…
Read More…a truly representative contemporary style. One of the reasons the neighborhood seemed “doomed” was the planned Lower Manhattan Expressway. This unpopular project, conceived by Robert Moses, then chairman of the…
Read More…own neighborhood. Robert Moses, whom she had criticized before, had already built the Cross Bronx Expressway and other highways, often over fierce neighborhood opposition. He now planned to build the…
Read More…South Village. Many think of urban renewal in New York City as a phenomenon of the post-World War II era, a battle between government (Robert Moses) and advocates (Jane Jacobs)….
Read More…extend 1,000 feet into the river, a sunken two-tiered highway, parks and new real estate for development. New Yorkers, still weary from fighting the Robert Moses highway proposals a generation…
Read More…the 8th Street alleyway. The owners welcomed designation as a New York City Landmark in 2000, and won a New York Landmarks Conservancy Lucy G. Moses Preservation Award in 2008….
Read More…thinkin’ about us.” The poor, immigrant housing in the East Village and the former location of Hard Luck Town would eventually be razed as per Robert Moses’ vision. Interestingly, the…
Read More…Community Board 2, and chairperson of its Parks Committee. He opposed Robert Moses’s plans for extending Fifth Avenue through Washington Square Park, and for the proposed Lower Manhattan Expressway. source:…
Read More…time reviewing three important sites. Last car through Washington Square Park, 1958. Tankel Collection, Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation. 1935 Redesign of Washington Square Park: Robert Moses would face…
Read More…and sailed from Georgia to St. Petersburg. The voyage was the first trans-Atlantic steam voyage and Captain Moses Rogers commanded the ship for its voyage. Between 1830 and 1840, many…
Read More…part of a slum clearance program, begun in 1953 by controversial urban planner Robert Moses. Getting these kinds of statements of support from preservation groups, elected officials, community groups, etc….
Read More…victory against Robert Moses’ high-rise urban renewal plans for the West Village, substituting modestly-scaled “infill housing”). GVSHP has a long history with Westbeth, including working to get it landmarked in…
Read More…Robert Moses’ plans to extend 5th Avenue through Washington Square Park and build a Lower Manhattan Expressway, which would have wiped out a large piece of SoHo. Among his neighborhood…
Read More…the International Ladies Garment Workers Union. It’s been quite a month for Michelangelo and DMAC, as last week they received a Lucy G. Moses Award for their restoration of the…
Read More…renewal schemes of the 1950’s and 1960’s and watershed in moving cities away from Robert Moses-type planning. Still from Koyaanisqatsi While it would probably be wrong to try to project…
Read More…constructed for Moses Weil who was leasing it from St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery. Throughout the Village there are buildings that are connected to the pre-automobile era of New York, among…
Read More…health care system at former St. Vincent’s site (DNAinfo) Who should play Robert Moses in Oliver Stone’s new HBO movie? (Gothamist) NYU plans renovations to 3 Washington Mews houses (Curbed)…
Read More…its transformation to artists’ housing, Diane Arbus, Merce Cunningham, Moses Gunn, Hans Haacke, and Gil Evans, among countless other artists, lived or worked at Westbeth. One of the first residential…
Read More…much-under-protected South Village, 68 Thompson was especially significant for its intact cast iron storefront. In 1965, this building was one of many slated for demolition by Robert Moses’ plan for…
Read More…1969. We received the New York Landmarks Conservancy’s Lucy G. Moses Preservation Award, in recognition of the organization’s work to save the Greenwich Village waterfront, and are named “Best of…
Read More…government circles.” – Roberta Brandes Gratz, author of The Battle for Gotham: New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs and former New York City Landmarks Commissioner…
Read More…1950s. Esther Rand and Fran [Frances] Goldin and fighting the plan that Robert Moses had to basically have extensions of off-ramps for the LIE [Long Island Expressway] and just basically…
Read More…urbanist Karrie Jacobs, to outline their plan for an opera – their first – that would tell the story of Jane Jacobs’s struggles against Robert Moses’s plans. After two years…
Read More…rallied for years to remove traffic from the park and finally won against Robert Moses’ plan to build a highway through the park. The “Last Car Through the Arch” is…
Read More…that one slide for now…) protesting Robert Moses’ plan to build a highway through the park. Midge has no idea who Jane Jacobs is but quickly decides she supports the…
Read More…Perkins, a young Robert Moses confessed his vision for remaking the city, plans he would undertake decades later. Young Sinclair Lewis also asked Perkins for help editing his manuscript for…
Read More…Jacobs and neighbors to defeat a Robert Moses urban renewal plan that would have destroyed large swaths of the West Village. They re-formed as the West Village Committee in 1962….
Read More…ark which holds the holy Torah scrolls. This same honor was bestowed upon his great-great-grandfather Luis Moses Gomez in 1730, at the consecration of their Mill Street building. The New…
Read More…businesses in the 1950s, were slated for demolition by City Planning, largely controlled by Robert Moses at that time. The Cooper Square Committee formed in resistance to the plan, successfully…
Read More…Village Committee, founded by activists including Jane Jacobs to fight Robert Moses’ urban renewal plan. And, as demonstrated here, the archive reveals Village Preservation’s own historic documents, spanning from the…
Read More…Square Village For the first several seasons of the show, Ross is shown to live at Washington Square Village, the modernist superblock of apartments built by Robert Moses in the…
Read More…(ultimately successful) battle to prevent Robert Moses’ plan to demolish most of SoHo and a broad swath of Lower Manhattan for the Lower Manhattan Expressway (LOMEX). A.I.R. Signage. Photo courtesy…
Read More…City Planning under Robert Moses. At the time, these buildings housed manufacturing and small businesses and were purchased by the city and federal government through eminent domain. The residents on…
Read More…1930s, Parks Commissioner Robert Moses (1888–1981) made improvements (what? He didn’t want to put a highway through it?!), including adding handball courts and swing sets. A bandshell was completed in 1966…
Read More…renovation won a Lucy G. Moses Award from the New York Landmarks Conservancy in 2001. 221 Sullivan Street 221 Sullivan Street was built 1891-92 to serve the children in the…
Read More…with the closure of the Bleecker Street line. By 1912, cars outnumbered horses in New York City, and trolleys met their demise at the hands of the automobile and Robert Moses…
Read More…fought against Robert Moses’s Lower Manhattan Expressway plan. By 1954 he was appointed to the then newly-formed Community Board 2 in Manhattan, serving on it for 52 years. He passed…
Read More…was demolished to make way for a much larger development. We can actually thank Robert Moses for keeping this section of the new development the same five stories as its…
Read More…The following year, the Mansion was awarded LEED Silver certification. Then, in 2016, New York Landmarks Conservancy honored Cooper Hewitt with Lucy G. Moses Preservation Award. The Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Decorative…
Read More…York City Parks Commissioner Robert Moses to keep his Shakespeare productions free to the public. In 1957, the New York Shakespeare Festival flatbed truck, which toured the city parks and…
Read More…seen at the northeast corner of Fifth Avenue. Courtesy of the MCNY The restaurant occupied the former mansion of Moses H. Grinnell, a former New York Congressman and Commissioner of…
Read More…York. He aided the drive for slum clearance and the construction of low-cost housing through the cooperation of the State and Federal Governments. Working with Robert Moses in his early…
Read More…transformation to artists’ housing, Diane Arbus, Merce Cunningham, Moses Gunn, Hans Haacke, and Gil Evans, among countless other artists, lived or worked at Westbeth. One of the first residential developments…
Read More…Merce Cunningham, Moses Gunn, Hans Haacke, and Gil Evans, among countless other artists, lived or worked at Westbeth. Westbeth remains an affordable housing complex for more than 350 working artists,…
Read More…Isaac Moses, from 1824-26. Baker Charles Hummel was a resident and owner from 1831 to 1850. By 1851, the building had become a rooming house. Until 1953 it had two long-term…
Read More…Moses, who drafted a zoning amendment that would replace double-height allowances for park-side property with a more modest allowance of about seven or eight stories. In the end, despite many…
Read More…of the elite, paradoxically came the cry for quiet and order in the park. Newbold Morris, a silk stocking descendant of the original Colonial Morrises, had recently succeeded Robert Moses…
Read More…Levine, and local elected officials including City Councilmembers Carlina Rivera and Erik Bottcher have called for the state to entirely remove the 65-year-old, post–Robert Moses limit on the allowable size…
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