The Sequel*
From a recent trip on an R train, the new subway map: except it’s not a map. It’s a diagram.
Journal
Our work with old buildings has us studying a lot of different topics in addition to structural engineering – for example, architecture, history, and historic preservation – and we like sharing stories about what we’ve found.
Adaptive Addition
We’re all comfortable with adaptive reuse, where the purpose of the original structure has gone away and a new purpose
Getting A Handle On Scale
From Kieran Healy a comparison of NYC transit to every commercial airport in the country: His explanation is worth a
Where No One Can See It
A view of the south end of New Street, looking south: New Street was inserted a very long time ago
Jumbled
Looking east along Battery Place: The colorful construction fence hides the coastal resilience project currently taking place in Battery Park.
It Looked Familiar: For Clarity
The Rocketeer, against expectations, rides across a bridge in a car: An artistic view of the Brooklyn Bridge: The horizontals
Disturbing Reality
I’m beginning today’s post with a trigger warning. It’s nothing truly terrible, but it’s a somewhat disturbing chunk of the
Buried
Your periodic reminder that elevated train lines, particularly older ones like the Manhattan els, were and are a blight on
Mostly Funct
Unlike yesterday‘s remnants of a bridge, here’s a bridge that’s intact although not quite what it once was. Yesterday’s abandoned
Defunct
From my June trip to the Boston area, a bridge turned the wrong way: That’s the central swing span of
An Old Alteration
I worked, very briefly, on the restoration work at Ellis Island before it reopened as a museum in 1990. Since
It Looked Familiar: One Block Over
Batman flies a weird helicopter over Gotham City: Some of the buildings are quite recognizable, but it took a minute
It Looked Familiar: Metafictional
The Legendary Lynx, AKA Claudia Calla, at her day job as a secretary at the Daily Triumph newspaper: Some of
A Celebration
Various views of the Battery and a regatta on July 4, 1860:
OSE Is Recertified As A B Corp
I forgot to do one of these posts the last time we were recertified, in 2021. In my defense, there
Becoming A Meme
This picture has been circulating a lot the last week or so. I’ve seen it posted on LinkedIn by three
A Cheap Shot
The Hilton New York, in 1963, when it was brand new: We’re looking northwest, and the street in the foreground
An Extraordinarily Convoluted Straight Line
From a recent site visit nearby, the Long Island Railroad elevated over Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn: The wikipedia history of
All In How You Define It
The waiting room of the Staten Island Ferry terminal in Manhattan: You’ll also occasionally see birds in the subway, in
It Looked Familiar: Theatricality
Batman visits a theater looking for the Penguin (trust me, that’s what happens in the next panel): The front facade