The reopening, part of a reconfiguration of the jail system, comes despite past neighborhood resistance.
Thu 12 Aug 2010
Filed under: Downtown Brooklyn (NYC), Kew Gardens (NYC), Schriro, Dora B, Rikers Island Prison Complex, Prisons and Prisoners, Queens (NYC), Brooklyn (NYC), Buildings (Structures) — @ 2:40 am
Wed 11 Aug 2010
Filed under: Downtown Brooklyn (NYC), Kew Gardens (NYC), Schriro, Dora B, Rikers Island Prison Complex, Prisons and Prisoners, Queens (NYC), Brooklyn (NYC), Buildings (Structures) — @ 7:42 pm
The reopening, part of a reconfiguration of the jail system, comes despite past neighborhood resistance.
Tue 3 Aug 2010
A community is split over whether to preserve or demolish Public School 186, which closed in 1975.
Fri 16 Jul 2010
Filed under: Bergen County (NJ), Accidents and Safety, Buildings (Structures), New Jersey — @ 9:50 pm
Rescue teams were not being allowed into the garage until it had been shored up with wooden supports.
Fri 16 Jul 2010
Filed under: Bergen County (NJ), Accidents and Safety, Buildings (Structures), New Jersey — @ 6:47 pm
Emergency workers were searching through the debris at the garage, located next to a high-rise apartment building outside New York.
Mon 5 Jul 2010
The construction manager for the dismantling of the building is involved in a court battle over tens of millions of dollars with the state agency that hired it.
Wed 30 Jun 2010
Filed under: Lopez, Vito J, Housing and Real Estate, Affordable Housing, Reyna, Diana, City Council (NYC), New Domino project, Community Preservation Corp, City Planning Commission, Land Use Policies, Bloomberg, Michael R, Building (Construction), Area Planning and Renewal, Brooklyn (NYC), Domino Sugar Corp, Zoning, Buildings (Structures) — @ 5:48 am
The approval came after the Community Preservation Corporation, which is redeveloping the old Domino Sugar site, agreed to shorten the tallest towers and run a bus to the nearest subway.
Wed 26 May 2010
Filed under: Housing and Real Estate, Midtown Area (NYC), Extell, Barnett, Gary, Economic Conditions and Trends, Buildings (Structures) — @ 3:12 am
Gary Barnett, a prolific developer in New York City, is starting construction on a $1.3 billion skyscraper on 57th Street that will be the tallest residential building in the city.
Thu 20 May 2010
The architects Kazuyo Sejima, center, and Ryue Nishizawa, right, receive the Pritzker Prize from Thomas J. Pritzker.Architecture’s luminaries gathered at Ellis Island to bestow their version of the Nobel, the Tony, the Oscar.
Tue 18 May 2010
Filed under: Falls, Co-op City (Bronx, NYC), Accidents and Safety, Buildings (Structures), New York City — @ 2:20 am
Thousands of residents were ordered to stop using their balconies after safety reviews prompted by a deadly fall.