Newstand-vaganza: There’s Not Always Enough Sidewalk for the Both of Us
In Midtown, one of the city’s biggest pedestrian areas, sidewalk space is precious, especially when newsstands come into the picture.
Developer Clears Hurdles for Demolition of Historic Building
After a two-year delay, a new office building is set to go up in the Meatpacking District, though no timetable for start of construction has been set.
Garment District 2021: The Latest Trend in Gentrification
For years, the residents and stakeholders in New York’s Garment District have worked against economic and policy trends to preserve the soul of this neighborhood – the fashion industry. How will their collective efforts pay off in 10 years?
Clinton Theater Seeks ‘Legal’ Status
The Emerging Artists Theatre Company has been trying to lease a space on 45th St. since last February. But first, it must change the building’s decades-old certificate of occupancy.
Midtown West: Walking Can Be Bad for Your Health
Transportation Alternatives has compiled a color-coded list of the most dangerous Community Board districts for pedestrians. Community District Five topped the list with 8,604 accidents during a 15-year period and a “code red” designation.
Chelsea Market’s Growing Pains
Plans to ad a 150-room hotel and new offices on top of the existing Chelsea Market building have stirred up strong feelings in the community.
Port Authority Greenmarket: An Oasis in the Midtown West Food Desert
The Port Authority farmer’s market offers fresh produce in an unusual location. But how much does this small market contribute to the fresh food options in the area around Port Authority and Times Square?
Bits of an Old Theatre Slip Through a Salvager’s Grasp
Evan Blum helped to salvage the Helen Hayes Theatre before its demolition in 1982. Thirty years later, he got a chance to win back some of the theatre’s remains.
Where Theatre Once Stood, a Hotel Looms
The Marriot Marquis in Times Square is known to many as one of the largest hotels in Manhattan, but to theatre-lovers it is known as the former site of the Helen Hayes Theatre. We revisit what made the theatre special — so special, in fact, that it inspired protests when developers announced it was going to be torn down.
New York Learns How to Stay Relevant From Europe Fashion Centers
New York looks to other global fashion cities like Paris, Milan, and London and to the continuing influence of Asia to help sustain its dominant place in the fashion world.
Mayor of the Garment District: Using FourSquare to Track Designers
Researchers at Columbia University spent two weeks in July tracking designers and others in the fashion industry how they moved about the Garment District. Their trick for keeping track of the designers? Having them check in on their smartphones with Four Square, a popular social media application.
Chelsea Galleries Remain Strong Despite Development
Condo and retail developers have spent the past decade following artists from other parts of New York to west Chelsea. But the rapid development has yet to eat away at the vibrancy of the Chelsea art scene.
Chelsea’s New School Goes “Glocal”
Three-year-olds learning Mandarin, middle-school students studying immigration and sharing science fair projects through Skype – Avenues, The World School sees these as essential to its mission of raising global citizens. But as the new private K-12 school in Chelsea prepares for its August 2012 launch, community members and Avenues staff have continued to discuss how [...]
Hell’s Kitchen Bar Denied Local Approval
Hell’s Kitchen residents and Boxers’ bar owners wait on the State Liquor Authority to determine the fate of the bar that abuts a school yard.
Midtown Hospital Reborn as Condos
The neglected shell of the former St. Vincent’s Midtown hospital, closed in 2007, will be gutted and rebuilt as condominiums. Major flooding, mold, and rodent issues have caused a mess for neighborhood residents.
Naming a Neighborhood: MiMa Makes Three
Locals may scoff at MiMa, the newest moniker for the West Side neighborhood known as Clinton or Hell’s Kitchen, but they’ve been arguing about their neighborhood’s name for years.
Remaking the Garment District
It takes a team to raise the Garment District. More than 70 urban planners, fashion designers, architects and community members have launched Making Midtown, a project that aims to provide solutions to Manhattan’s threatened fashion and manufacturing hub in midtown by 2012. Making Midtown is the second phase in an effort to bring the stakeholders [...]
Design Competition Connects Fashion with Architecture in Pop-up Store
Architecture and fashion are typically considered two separate forms of design with little to do with each other, but Faris Al-Shathir is working to change that notion.
Al-Shathir is director and co-founder of BOFFO, a non-profit organization that works to convert empty, unused spaces in New York City into art. This fall, the organization is sponsoring five competitions and a series of exhibits to connect high-profile fashion designers with architects to collaborate on a Tribeca pop-up store — a previously dark, abandoned space transformed into a glitzy retail shop, teeming with people engaged as much in taking photographs as shopping.
