Organized Chaos
I’ve written before about the caisson foundations at the Woolworth Building but here comes the New York Public Library with
As Good A Theory As Any
This post may not seem like it’s about the built environment, but it is. I’ll get there eventually, just with
Revisiting A Moment
More than five years ago, I wrote about the see-saw history of the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge: built in 1939 with the
Just A Little Over The Top
During a rooftop site visit in midtown a couple of years ago, I turned around and there it was: the
Old Home Week
For various reasons, I went to two different elementary schools, even though we lived in the same apartment from when
Three Old Photos
In honor of the cold weather we’ve been having, some of it with clear blue skies and tonight with snow,
Proof!
I’ve more or less run out of Lewis Hine photos of the Empire State Building construction, so let’s head south
‘Tis But A Scratch
A beam – maybe steel, maybe wrought iron – in a sidewalk vault, photographed several years ago: Just to be
Trading One For Another
The attic of a very old house: Yes, that is a chimney on an angle. That’s a fairly common sight
This Was Not Normal
From the Wurts Brothers, “General View – Rivers – Hudson River – looking west from Whitehall Building”: Once again, that
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